AUTHOR=Awiti Alex O. 

TITLE=Climate Change and Gender in Africa: A Review of Impact and Gender-Responsive Solutions

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Climate

VOLUME=Volume 4 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/climate/articles/10.3389/fclim.2022.895950

DOI=10.3389/fclim.2022.895950

ISSN=2624-9553

ABSTRACT=Climate change affects livelihoods and wellbeing. Women and men may experience the impacts of climate change differently. But climate change and its associated impacts affect women negatively. A review was done on peer-reviewed literature related to the impact of climate change on gender in Africa. While there is an abundance of credible scientific evidence on the impacts of climate change, there is a dearth of reliable dis-aggregated data and evidence on the impact of climate change on women. The review shows that climate change affects women more negatively compared to men in five impact areas: i) agricultural production; ii) food and nutrition security; iii) health; iv) water and energy; v) climate-related disaster, migration and conflict. The lack of gender dis-aggregated data undermines efforts to design gender-responsive interventions to enable women cope with and adapt to climate change impacts. While there is no consensus on what constitutes gender-responsive solutions to climate vulnerability and risk, the paper provides some priority action areas to stimulate debate and hopefully consensus for a starting point deeper engagement of women’s participation and motivating investments in creating frameworks for accountability for measurable gender-differentiated outcomes. efforts to design and deploy gender-responsive solutions to climate change impact must take a holistic, asset-based approach, which meaningfully seeks to identify dominant causal mechanisms and develops context policy and institutional options to address interlocking asset or capital dis-endowments.