Gender, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Climate Change Adaptation: A Learning Companion

This Companion provides the theoretical overview of how poverty and inequality shape the experiences of women and men during disasters, and as a result of climate change;analyses Oxfam’s approach to strengthening gender equality and women’s rights through gender mainstreaming, and how this is applied to adaptation and risk reduction work in practice;explains what gender equality, women’s rights, and women’s empowerment mean in
terms of changes in the lives of women and men who are vulnerable to the impacts of climate
change and at risk of disaster.