The African Union Gender Policy and forthcoming Climate Change Strategy, together present an opportunity to ensure that implementation of the Paris Agreement in Africa contributes to gender equality. The latest legally-binding outcome under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the Paris Agreement, which entered into force on 4th November 2016 and will apply from 2020. Identifying gender-responsive mechanisms to implement the Paris Agreement in terms of adaptation and mitigation initiatives is important to stop reinforcing existing inequalities. This paper proposes some mechanisms to ensure gender-responsive implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Climate and Development Knowledge Network(2021-05-31)
Namibia is a semi-arid country and a climate change ‘hotspot’ in southern Africa. The Oshana Region has been hard-hit by droughts in particular, which have drastically disrupted farming practices and people’s livelihoods. ...
Sokoine University of Agriculture(Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 2009)
Plenary discussions raised issues regarding the presentations, and whether all four countries had properly covered the type, format and availability of meteorological data. The workshop provided space for project updates ...
Farming in the semi-arid tropics, where climatic conditions are marginal and highly variable, is a risky enterprise. The main source of this risk is the variability in rainfall that occurs at many different timescales, ...
