Strengthening Gender Responsiveness of the Green Climate Fund Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Programme in Namibia
Strengthening Gender Responsiveness of the Green Climate Fund Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Programme in Namibia
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10.3390/su131810162
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2021-09
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3.9
通讯作者：
M. Angula;I. Mogotsi;Selma Lendelvo;K. Aribeb;Aina-Maria Iteta;J. Thorn
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作者：
M. Angula;I. Mogotsi;Selma Lendelvo;K. Aribeb;Aina-Maria Iteta;J. Thorn
性别和气候变化学者认为，无视性别的气候变化行动可能会加剧现有的不平等，破坏可持续的气候变化适应行动。出于这个原因，自2017年以来，绿色气候基金将性别问题列为其关键的规划先决条件之一，使其成为全球首个这样做的多边气候基金。然而，迄今为止，没有从基于社区的自然资源管理中汲取经验教训，为纳米比亚计划的促进两性平等的生态系统干预措施提供信息。因此，本文的目的是分享关键的经验教训的方式，其中性别评估是有用的，以提高公平的生态系统为基础的适应方案的绿色气候fund. To为此，我们进行了深入的采访和小组讨论，在纳米比亚的14个农村地区与151名参与者从107个社区为基础的自然资源管理组织（73.5：26.5;男性：女性比例）。结果发现，由于历史上的不平等、种族和地理以及当地社区自然资源管理机构中的其他社会文化因素交织在一起，领导和决策方面存在性别不平衡。我们还确定了收入差距和生计多样化机会不平等、气候变化对性别的不同影响以及有意义地参与公共论坛。总体而言，评估表明，在启动基于社区的气候变化适应项目时考虑性别分析，对于在纳米比亚和撒哈拉以南非洲更广泛的资源依赖环境中实现气候变化复原力、缩小性别差距、建设能力以增加公平和增强妇女权能至关重要。
Scholars of gender and climate change argue that gender-blind climate change actions could exacerbate existing inequalities and undermine sustained climate change adaptation actions. For this reason, since 2017, the Green Climate Fund placed gender among its key programming prerequisites, making it the first multilateral climate fund to do so worldwide. However, to date, no lessons to inform planned gender-responsive ecosystem-based interventions in Namibia have been drawn from community-based natural resource management. Thus, this paper aims to share key lessons regarding the way in which gender assessment is useful in enhancing equity in an ecosystem-based adaptation programme for the Green Climate Fund. To this end, we conducted in-depth interviews and group discussions in the 14 rural regions of Namibia with 151 participants from 107 community-based natural resource management organisations (73.5:26.5; male:female ratio). The results identified gender imbalances in leadership and decision-making due to intersecting historic inequalities, ethnicity and geography, as well as other socio-cultural factors in local community-based natural resource management institutions. We also identified income disparities and unequal opportunities to diversify livelihoods, gendered differentiated impacts of climate change and meaningful participation in public forums. Overall, the assessment indicates that considering gender analysis at the initiation of a community-based climate change adaptation project is crucial for achieving resilience to climate change, closing the gender gap, building capacity to increase equity and empowering women in resource-dependent environments in Namibia and Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly.