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Her4Climate Tool

Her4Climate is a participatory assessment tool developed by Cities Alliance in collaboration with Arup to mainstream gender considerations in climate adaptation. Designed primarily for international development practitioners, in-country facilitators, government representatives and urban professionals, this tool is centred on the knowledge and capacities of women in urban areas, providing a framework for understanding women’s exposure and their capacity to respond to climate change in urban areas, including the identification of key climate impacts that require action, and the level of climate adaptability in the future.
The tool also aims at promoting women’s participation, leadership, and empowerment in the design and management of climate adaptation initiatives (i.e., strategies, policies, action plans, and interventions).

Materials

https://localising-global-agendas.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/2-9d653e0afe733e7729faf22ddfbb40fc/2023/03/cities_alliance_her4climate_tool_2022.pdf.pdf

Online link

https://www.citiesalliance.org/newsroom/news/results/her4climate-gender-mainstreaming-climate-adaptation-plans

Main Language

English

Goal

The tool aims at promoting women’s participation, leadership, and agency in the design and management of climate adaptation initiatives and plans. It does so by identifying the main factors through which women’s exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to climate events become visible and actionable. It examines the short- and long-term climate impacts through the lens of three dimensions, that are essential to crafting a city’s gender-transformative response: 1) Health and Wellbeing; 2) Built and Natural Environments; 3) Governance and Decision-making.

Output

An assessment of the specific vulnerability and adaptive capacity of women and girls to climate-related hazards, as well as the identification of possible actions to improve women and girls’ adaptive capacity.

Background information:


Author / Issuing institution

Cities Alliance

Website

https://www.citiesalliance.org/

E-Mail

pietroc@unops.org