Gender Mainstreaming and Climate Change

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Duration
13 Weeks

Cost
USD 290

Award
Certificate of Achievement with 4 CEUs ( Continuing Education Units)

Modality
Online

Location
WAND - UWI Open Campus - Online Course

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Gender Mainstreaming and Climate Change

The CPE course is designed to take into account the perspective that the impacts of climate change and disasters magnify existing inequalities between men and women. Women tend to be more vulnerable to the effects of climate change and are affected in their multiple roles as food producers and providers, as guardians of health, as care-givers, and as economic actors (OXFAM 2010). The Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Article 1 defines climate change as “a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability over comparable time periods (IPCC 2014).

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At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Critically analyze how gender and social inequalities create vulnerability in men and women as a result of disasters.
Discuss key development challenges associated with gender, climate change, and natural hazards in the Caribbean and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Identify the impact of disasters and the effects of climate change on health and livelihoods.
Use practical tools to mainstream gender in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Analyze the link of climate change to vulnerabilities of men and women and resilience building;
Develop practical skills for building capacity and developing resiliency strategies as measures to counter the growing threat of the effects of climate change on gender.

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