The Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) Helpdesk has produced this introductory learning brief on the links between GBV and climate change as a introduction to increase literacy for GBV actors as a first step to define interventions. The brief also presents innovative programming case studies for reducing GBV in climate-related emergencies.

In this webinar, IUCN, USAID, and a wide range of experts and leaders from across disciplines discuss these critical linkages, exploring policy frameworks, leveraging lessons and resources across sectors, and strategies for on-the-ground action to realize rights and resilience, together.

This guideline provides Contracting Parties, the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and other pertinent organisations with a series of key operational and practical entry points to enhance the mainstreaming of gender equality in the convention.

Environmental protection is one area where women are generating different success stories while their engagement is obstructed by gender-based violence and unpaid care work – a view from IUCN Bangladesh.

Focusing on the 2021 Texas winter storm, this report draws on expertise from IUCN and other UN reports on the link between severe weather events and gender-based violence, which has been shown to be more lethal during incidents of extreme weather which is a global problem that is not just linked to smaller, less-wealthy countries.

In this International Women’s Day blog from USAID, the AGENT partnership on Advancing Gender in the Environment with IUCN is featured among initiatives geared to address women’s leadership in solving the climate crisis.

USAID is working with the DNPW, conservation NGOs, community resource management groups, and the private sector to increase gender equality and create a pipeline of women Community Scouts, increasing women’s participation and leadership in natural resource management.

This tool provides an array of specific interventions that environment programs, donors and practitioners could consider to strengthen attention to addressing GBV across environment-related contexts.

The USAID Collective Action to Reduce Gender-Based Violence (CARE-GBV) activity is seeking innovative concept note applications for small grants from new, local, and underutilized partners and organizations.

In Nepal many rural women are very dependent on natural resources such as firewood, fodder, water and traditional medicines, but they are often excluded from decision-making about their forests, and sometimes have difficulty accessing the resources they need. As part of its GESI work the Hariyo Ban Program realized it needed to tackle gender-based violence in order for women to participate more fully and safely in community forest management and sharing of forest benefits.