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This is the report of the first ever Asia Pacific Regional Disaster Law Field School, co-hosted by Australian Red Cross and IFRC, was held 24-27 April 2017 in Sydney Australia, bringing together 12 Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies with their respective governments, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Climate Centre, regional organisations such as the Association for South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) Secretariat for Pacific Community (SPC) and the Centre for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (CEPREDENAC), as well as UN agencies including UNOCHA and UNDP.
This guidance note outlines how climate change can impact men and women differently and identifies important ways in which gender roles can affect people’s capacity to adapt to changing climate-related risks. It proposes steps for helping Red Cross/Red Crescent colleagues to be climate-smart and gender-sensitive in their programming.