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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Women need governmental support to deal with climate change in the Himalayas -Mayank Aggarwal

Women need governmental support to deal with climate change in the Himalayas -Mayank Aggarwal

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published Published on Mar 17, 2019   modified Modified on Mar 17, 2019
-Mongabay.com

* Women are often called as vulnerable victims of climate change as well as integral to climate change adaptation, but even then government policies overlook the oppression they face.

* To address it, the latest report by ICIMOD has suggested a series of measures such as the government allocating resources, financial and human, for gender-responsive interventions, and creation of mechanisms to ensure the promotion of women’s rights.

* The report also highlighted social problems faced by migrants in the Himalayan countries and batted for a series of measures to ensure their welfare.

Women in the Himalayan countries are often dubbed as vulnerable victims of climate change as well as formidable champions of climate change adaptation but despite that “policies and responses” in the Himalayan countries “overlook the multiple forms of oppression and exclusion that they face.”

A recent report, ‘Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) Assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability, and People’, released by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) on February 4, highlighted that “existing laws and policies do not support the multiple ways in which women negotiate their roles in households, communities, and the market.”

It said that policies that support adaptation to climate change would not succeed “unless they consider gender and how it interacts with other factors such as class, caste, ethnicity, and geography, which will require disaggregated data.”

The report recommended that all levels of government must allocate resources — financial and human — for “gender-responsive interventions at scale and adopt clear accountability mechanisms, such as gender budgeting, to demonstrate their commitment to gender equality.”

It further noted that the policies to improve women’s participation in decision making and climate governance must go beyond numbers and quotas to create mechanisms that ensure empowerment and promote women’s rights and agency.

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Mongabay.com, 5 March, 2019, https://india.mongabay.com/2019/03/women-need-governmental-support-to-deal-with-climate-change-in-the-himalayas/


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