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Accepted Paper:
Narjes Zivdar (United Nations)
Paper short abstract:
While the UN acknowledge women’s empowerment when addressing protection risks, including gender-based violence in the context of displacement and climate change, the community consultations prioritizing women engagement in policy/decision making processes is often overlooked and should be revisited.
Paper long abstract:
As climate change impacts intensify, mobility of populations away from high-risk areas will likely increase. Climate migrations are particularly widespread in Asia-Pacific accounting for 70% of the hazards and threatening the most vulnerable and disrupting their livelihoods. Both the process (movement) and the results (for displaced and left-behind communities) of climate displacements are gendered. With pre-existing gender inequalities compounding their vulnerabilities, women and girls are among the worst impacted.
While the UN acknowledge women’s empowerment when addressing protection risks, including gender-based violence in the context of displacement and climate change, the community consultations prioritizing women engagement in policy/decision making processes is often overlooked. If relevant frameworks and assessments by international development agencies do not proactively include how communities particularly women perceive and address risks in their daily lives, and do not consider diverse perspectives, knowledge and ways of living of affected populations and women, they may result in problematic decisions and processes. This may then exacerbate marginalization, feelings of discrimination and inequality, as well as the erosion of cultural and social capital, leading to unintended negative consequences.
Adopting a gender lens helps to identify and respond to specific risks and needs, and highlights the essential roles women can take on in leading sustainable transformations. Funding and policy frameworks should address the multi-dimensional and long-term challenges by fostering collaboration with community. This needs to consider intersectional and often long-standing structural issues (e.g. gender inequality, poverty, uneven resource access) faced by the affected populations, as well as the long-term nature of processes.
Leaving no one behind: citizen participation and access to services in an era of declining public trust in the state
Session 1 Wednesday 26 June, 2024, -