Overview

This research project focuses on unpacking the complex relationship between the climate crisis and gender equality. The goals include exploring the depth of the climate crisis, assessing its magnitude, and identifying the need for gender-inclusive climate solutions. Committed to diverse sourcing for a comprehensive and unbiased understanding of gendered dimensions in climate change, the data was analyzed to create a nuanced summary, highlighting the current state of the climate crisis and its impact on gender equality. The aim is to pinpoint gaps and opportunities for a potential design project, incorporating a primary UX research plan. This establishes the foundation for problem and opportunity statements to guide gender-sensitive strategies in addressing climate crisis challenges.

Women bear the brunt of natural disasters and climate change due to poverty, gender roles, and discrimination. This leaves them more impoverished, less adaptable, and excluded from climate policy decisions. Gender norms confine them to food and water tasks. Climate policies overlook these nuances, worsening women's vulnerability. To create an equitable, sustainable world, addressing this gap, empowering women, and involving them in climate policymaking is crucial.

Summary of findings

Design Opportunities

1. Climate change adaptation and resilience building:
   Tools and guidelines for sensitization of gender-based issues, Accessible health awareness, Training for sustainable farming practices or craft-based alternate income.

2. Climate change mitigation and economic growth:
   Increasing awareness about green work opportunities for women, Accessible financial information and services, Business development training and opportunities.

Identifying Stakeholders

Shortlisting Stakeholders

Stakeholder Interview Guide

Identifying User Groups and Prioritizing Based on Their Needs

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2. Gender and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities.

3. A Gender Perspective in Responding to the Security Risks Associated with Climate Change

4. WOMEN, GENDER EQUALITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE Fact Sheet by Redress

5. Gender in climate change, agriculture, and natural resource policies: insights from East Africa

6. The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981–2002

7. Climate change and gender equality in developing states

8. Significance of the Application of Resilience-based Approach in Human Trafficking at the Area of Sub-Saharan Africa

9. World Bank: SDG Atlas-World Bank

10. TED Talks: An Extreme Weather Report From America’s Weatherman | Al Roker | TED, The Climate Crisis Is Expensive – Here’s Who Should Pay for It | Avinash Persaud | TED

11. Our World in Data

12. EM-DAT - The international disaster database

13. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Gender and Land Rights Database

14. Dowry Deaths: Response to Weather Variability in India

15. EPA: Heat Islands

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