Gender, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation: a learning companion

This document provides accessible and practical guidance to practitioners, and particularly Oxfam staff, wishing to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation approaches into programming. It aims to: (i) give a theoretical overview of how poverty and inequality shape the experiences of women and men during disasters, and as a result of climate change; (ii) describe Oxfam’s approach to strengthening gender equality and women’s rights through gender mainstreaming, and how this is applied to adaptation and risk reduction work in practice; (iii) explain what gender equality, women’s rights, and women’s empowerment mean in terms of changes in the lives of women and men who are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and at risk of disaster; and (iv) inform about where to go to learn more.