Exploring Gender, Social Aspects of Climate Policies

Jan 20, 2022
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With a focus on climate change and gender, the Women’s Indian Association (WIA) has partnered with the Gender Into Urban Climate Change Initiative (GUCCI), and has been working on exploring the gender and social aspects of climate policies over the last two years.

With their partnership on the project coming to an end next month, WIA is preparing to hand over their policy recommendations and strategy for climate action to the government.

“While we are quick to speak about climate change and jump into relief work once natural disasters occur, there should be a lot more conversation both nationally and at the State level about climate policies in the long run. Gender and climate change in particular needs special attention - women and other vulnerable groups are severely affected during such events,” said Padma Venkataraman, President, WIA.

The core of the project, WIA said, is the deeper examination and analysis of the existing State-level and national-level climate change policies through the gender lens. As part of their project with GUCCI, Ms. Padma said they carried out several awareness campaigns and training programmes for women belonging to different sections in the city. Stakeholder workshops with government officials, NGOs and academicians to discuss climate action policies for gender sensitivity were also held.