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This document summarises the recommendations and discussions from a workshop hosted by the Department for International Development (DFID) on 9 June 2014. The purpose of the workshop was to build consensus on what did and didn’t work to help prevent and respond to violence against women and girls in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan hit in November 2013.
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.