Advancing Equitable and Resilient Livelihoods in Southern Africa through Integrating Gender Transformative Approaches

The document advocates for a shift from traditional gender mainstreaming to Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) in Southern Africa to address the root causes of inequality and improve resilience to climate change and food insecurity. It provides a series of policy recommendations, including the integration of GTAs into national development plans and disaster risk reduction strategies, and highlights existing legal frameworks at global, continental, and regional levels that can enable these shifts.

• Traditional gender mainstreaming has failed to address the root causes of inequality because it focuses on resource access and technological empowerment rather than structural barriers and social norms.
• Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) differ from conventional practices by targeting the systems and structures that perpetuate disparities, challenging harmful norms, and engaging men and boys as allies.
• The application of GTAs in Southern Africa has led to improved economic outcomes for women, including increased agricultural productivity and diversified income sources in Lesotho and Malawi.
• GTAs have enhanced adaptive capacities to climate change through initiatives such as climate-smart agriculture in Zambia and ecosystem restoration employment for women in South Africa.
• While there is a general consensus that gender equality improves resilience, there is a lack of robust empirical evidence to substantiate this claim.
• National policies in several Southern African countries already incorporate gender considerations into climate and agricultural strategies, such as Zimbabwe's National Climate Change Response Strategy and Malawi's National Climate Change Policy.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2024). Advancing Equitable and Resilient Livelihoods in Southern Africa through Integrating Gender Transformative Approaches. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sara-gta-policy-brief-draft-5-medium-spreads.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. Advancing Equitable and Resilient Livelihoods in Southern Africa through Integrating Gender Transformative Approaches. 2024. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sara-gta-policy-brief-draft-5-medium-spreads.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2024advancing, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{Advancing Equitable and Resilient Livelihoods in Southern Africa through Integrating Gender Transformative Approaches}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2024}, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sara-gta-policy-brief-draft-5-medium-spreads.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }