Request for resources on INTERSECTIONALITY + GENDER MAINSTREAMING in Climate Change Projects

[Dr Katie Tavenner]

REQUEST FOR RESOURCES RELATED TO INTERSECTIONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN ADAPTATION PROJECTS

The Adaptation Fund is currently conducting a study on ‘intersectional approaches to integrating gender considerations in climate change adaptation projects.’

In organizing the desk review, we are interested in gathering relevant project documents, reports and/or statistics that have applied the concept of intersectionality in the context of gender mainstreaming in adaptation projects. If you have potential resources that meet this criteria, we would highly appreciate if you can share the relevant materials with the lead consultant, Dr. Katie Tavenner - [e-mail] by June 4, 2021.

Thanks so much in advance!

[Dr Katie Tavenner]

Thank you for your message, Tonny. Methodologically speaking, we are casting a very big net to capture relevant literature, as "applied intersectionality" appears to be a novel concept in climate adaptation. There is no country preference, but we are interested in practical/case study examples where intersectional approaches have been applied.

At present, the desk review is drawing on peer-reviewed and secondary/gray/unpublished sources, using the databases Google Scholar, ProQuest, JSTOR, SAGE Journals online, Taylor & Francis Online Journals, Wiley Online Library, and the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research publications database.

Thank you in advance for sharing any resources you believe would be helpful to the study!

[Roshan Rathod]

Hello Katie, 

Sharing a book of which I co-authored a chapter that may be of interest. 

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/46959/97810... (It is open access)

All the best! and happy to share ground level insights as i work closely with communities on climate change adaptation in the Indian Himalayan region

Roshan Rathod

[Dr Katie Tavenner]

Thank you for sharing the link to your book, Roshan, I think your chapter (and several others) look like great content for the review. As I gather case-study level examples of applying intersectionality in gender mainstreaming in climate adaptation projects, I would be very interested to hear your ground level insights!

[Anne Stephens]

Dear Dr Katie

Please see the work of myself and my colleagues thinking about intersectional approaches in development that try to avoid a forced categoricalism from the global north. Introducing the GEMs framework.

https://www.ethosofengagement.com/ise4gems

We have been applying this work and there is much research and room for thought in how this can and perhaps should be applied. Please feel free to reach out to Dr Ellen Lewis or myself, Dr Anne Stephens, to talk about GEMs framework at any time. 

[Dr Katie Tavenner]

Thank you, Anne, for sharing this very interesting framework!

Given that you have been applying the framework, might you or any of your co-authors have additional 'case study' style documentation that you could share?

Thank you again for sharing!

[Anna Gero]

Dear Katie,

Our team of researchers at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, together with civil society partners, Plan International and WaterAid, developed several outputs from our "Climate change response for Inclusive WASH" research.

Two guidance notes, designed closely with Plan International Indonesia and WaterAid Timor-Leste field staff, outline easy-to-implement community-based activities to get local stakeholders thinking about how people are affected differently by climate impacts on WASH, and how gender and social inclusion in WASH builds climate resilience.

Two case studies, one focusing on rural sanitation in Indonesia and one focusing on rural water in Timor-Leste, shed light on the experiences of community members with climate impacts on WASH. The case studies demonstrate the way gender, and social norms and structures shape how people feel about and respond to climate change.

Finally, our learning paper explains interconnected key concepts: gender and social inclusion, WASH, and climate change, and how these informed the research behind these outputs.

See here for all outputs, including in Bahasa Indonesia and Tetun languages

https://waterforwomen.uts.edu.au/climate-change-response/#outputs  

I hope these are of interest.

[Dr Katie Tavenner]

Wow Anna, thank you so much for sharing these resources! They are highly relevant to the study and I anticipate the case study examples will be particularly useful.

Thank you again for taking the time to share all of these great outputs!

[KALYANI MENON-SEN]

Hi Katie. here is a link to something I wrote recently - a plea for a shift to a feminist approach on climate issues and why this is urgently required. I'm sharing because it has direct implications for evaluation, so maybe you'll find it useful. Cheers. KALYANI

a href="https://genderatwork.org/portfolio-item/wanted-a-feminist-l...

[Dr Katie Tavenner]

Thank you, Kalyani, for sharing your timely post and call to action for gender warriors in development! I think your argumentation in this post will inform both the conceptual lens and the recommendations emergent from the study. Would you be able to share any additional resources for the IDRC-funded project "Accelerating Climate Action: Social Equity and Empowerment of Women and Girls” that your post was inspired by?

Thank you again for sharing your work! 

[Pallavi Sobti Rajpal]

Safeguarding planetary health in the Anthropocene epoch needs more than climate change mitigation such as better mainstreaming of environment into political and economic frameworks to improve planetary boundary markers such as biodiversity, atmosphere, ocean acidification, biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, land-use and those markers that have not yet been quantified. The humanitarian crisis unleased by the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastation caused by Cyclone Tauktae and Cyclone Yaas reveal socio-economic vulnerabilities as well as highlight the need for resilience. The COVID-19 pandemic not only reminds the world of declining planetary health but of the deep inequalities prevailing across the world and busts the myth that “everyone is in the same boat”. The impact of the pandemic, when felt most strongly by the more vulnerable sections of society clearly highlights inequity in our society. 

 The curtain raiser event to World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) 2022 is being held on 4 June 2021 to commemorate the World Environment Day and bring together perspectives on the theme of ‘Sustainable, Equitable and Resilient Water Use’. The theme of ‘water’ is crucial to the overall WSDS 2022 theme. Using the lens of water can help provide perspectives on local, sub-national, national, transnational and global environmental and social issues  

Nafisa Barot is to speak on the eminent Panel of the Virtual Curtain Raiser to WSDS 2022 and Discussion on Sustainable, Equitable and Resilient Water Use organized by TERI & WSDS.

Join through the following links to hear the Panel. 

* Live Streaming: https://youtu.be/kcZpWWCYWm0     * Bitly link:  bit.ly/wsdsteri    * Weblink:  https://www.teriin.org/.../curtain-raiser-event-wsds-2022...

In solidarity

Team Utthan

[Dr Katie Tavenner]

Thank you, Pallavi, for the link to the curtain raiser event. It looks like an interesting discussion.