Transcript DWaldenClimate_Change_and_Girls_DHWMay2010

Girls and Climate Change
Daniel Walden | Plan International UK | June 2010
Urban Relocation
Second job
Prostitution
Livelihoods
responsibilities
Access to Education
Survival skills
Sexual Violence
Impacts
Household work
Conflict
Increase in disasters
Consumption of Food
Migration
Production of Food
Time for Education
Domestic Violence
Ability to Participate
Services and Rights
in Disasters
Collecting
Water
Loss of life/ lives
Status next to Boys
Competition for Resources
Sexual Health & Fertility
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Disease
Transformative Action
Communicating
Street Theatre
Schools
Presentations
Local
Councils
Vocational training
Opportunities
Awareness Raising
Voices
Youth
Groups
Focus Group
Discussions
Risk Mapping
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Participatory Video
Monitoring and Evaluation
Family Planning
Youth Journalism
Radio Programmes
Economic Benefits
‘Indigenous
Technical
Knowledge’
Ecosystem protection
Emergencies Committees
International Meetings
Making sense of it all…
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Impacts of climate change
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Why are the impacts different for girls and boys?
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What opportunities are there?
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Enabling Environment
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Education
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What’s happening?
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Starter for 10
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2.2 billion people in the world are under 18
85% of the world’s young people live in
developing countries
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Women and girls are on the frontline
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child
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Hyogo Framework for Action on Disasters
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Economics & Climate Change
If you want to get the biggest return on
investment in development, invest in girls.
Nick Kristoff, New York Times
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Impacts of climate change on girls: Protection
• Access to food and medicine
• Physical skills
 Involvement in preparedness activities
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Akash/Panos Pictures
• Water
Why are impacts different for girls and boys?
• Age, socio-economic class, culture
• Time to take part; time to learn
• Employment opportunities
• Conflict situations
 Rights-based approaches
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Agents for Change: Participation
• Decision-making
• Action
• Advocacy and lobbying
• Local, national and international levels.
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Enabling environment
• New norms: child-friendly, gender responsive
• Facilitate girls’ participation as part of this
• Investment opportunities for adaptation
• Long-term change as well as immediate effect:
Transformative not just instrumental
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Education
• Education on climate change – in safe schools
• Sustainable development
• Long-term, transformative empowerment
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• Climate resilience
“Ensuring girls’ access to quality education prepares
them to play significant roles in reconstruction efforts
in their communities and beyond.”
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
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So what’s happening?
• Plan International and Child-Centred DRR
• Children in a Changing Climate coalition partners
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Economic crisis, recovery and beyond: beyond.
• Right to education and involvement
• Protection; Participation; Enabling Environment
• Capacity over Vulnerability
• Cross-cutting
… Good Development
www.childreninachangingclimate.org
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