Pathways to integrate gendered care work into climate-related emergency preparedness and response

The brief argues that climate-related disasters disproportionately affect caregivers, primarily women, and that humanitarian aid often overlooks these gendered vulnerabilities. It proposes six actionable pathways—including equitable redistribution of care, shock-responsive social protection, and care-sensitive risk mapping—to mitigate these risks and optimize financial aid as climate-driven humanitarian needs are projected to rise significantly by 2050.

• Climate-related disasters are projected to increase humanitarian needs drastically, with more than 200 million people expected to require assistance annually by 2050, compared to 24.9 million people displaced by weather-related hazards in 2019.
• Care responsibilities, which are predominantly held by women, create gendered vulnerabilities that are typically ignored by initial humanitarian aid efforts, necessitating targeted interventions.
• The authors propose six specific pathways to integrate gendered care into crisis governance: equitable redistribution of care, shock-responsive social protection, care-sensitive risk mapping, inclusion of caregiver voices in management, effective knowledge sharing, and treating gendered care as a cross-cutting issue in international cooperation.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2024). Pathways to integrate gendered care work into climate-related emergency preparedness and response. https://www.sei.org/publications/pathways-integrate-gendered-care-work-climate/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Pathways to integrate gendered care work into climate-related emergency preparedness and response. 2024. https://www.sei.org/publications/pathways-integrate-gendered-care-work-climate/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2024pathways, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Pathways to integrate gendered care work into climate-related emergency preparedness and response}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2024}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/pathways-integrate-gendered-care-work-climate/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }