Promoting gender equality in responses to climate change: The case of Kenya


Autoria(s): Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe
Data(s)

2011

Resumo

The paper discusses how Kenyan policies and organisations address gender equality in climate change-related responses. The political support for gender issues is reflected in presidential directives on various actions for achieving gender equality such as the establishment of gender desk officers and ensuring 30 per cent female representation in government. Despite the well-advanced gender mainstreaming policy in Kenya, few policies focus on climate change and even fewer on its inter-linkages with gender. At the field level, encrusted traditions, inadequately trained staff, limited financial resources, and limited awareness of the inter-linkages between gender and climate change remain major challenges to promoting gender equality in the work of government organisations. The paper thus proposes measures for addressing these challenges and strengthening gender equality in responses to climate change.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://boris.unibe.ch/68351/1/DP_5.2011.pdf

Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe (2011). Promoting gender equality in responses to climate change: The case of Kenya (Discussion Paper 5). Bonn, Deutschland: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

doi:10.7892/boris.68351

urn:isbn:978-3-88985-534-3

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Relação

http://boris.unibe.ch/68351/

http://www.die-gdi.de/discussion-paper/article/promoting-gender-equality-in-responses-to-climate-change-the-case-of-kenya/

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Fonte

Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe (2011). Promoting gender equality in responses to climate change: The case of Kenya (Discussion Paper 5). Bonn, Deutschland: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Palavras-Chave #330 Economics
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/report

info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

NonPeerReviewed