About this Research Topic
Climate change, gender, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are intrinsically linked. The climate crisis disproportionately impacts women and girls and magnifies social, economic, and cultural disparities in access to economic opportunities, education, and healthcare. Climate change is a risk multiplier for women and girls who bear the brunt of increasingly frequent climate events and shocks, often also lacking the resources and power to safely adapt. Women and girls, particularly in the global south, who are already more vulnerable to systemic inequities tend to also be the hardest hit by climate impacts. Extreme weather events, deforestation, and other environmental changes disrupt the lives and health of women and girls and increase their vulnerabilities. Climate shocks reshape women’s vulnerabilities and make them even more susceptible to sexual exploitation, early child marriage, gender-based violence, unwanted pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with all associated outcomes on quality of life, morbidity, and mortality. Additionally, when health systems are not climate resilient, women and girls, particularly those who are most vulnerable, suffer the greatest impacts.
There is an urgent need for evidence to better inform current and future strategies at the intersection of climate, gender, and SRHR. Building on the energy of COP28, there are calls to prioritize, promote, and increase data collection of gender-disaggregated data, and evidence generation at the nexus of climate, gender, and SRHR. In this call for papers, we welcome original research, case studies, policy analysis, and other evidence that can strengthen knowledge of what is needed to effectively promote more gender-just innovations and programs at the nexus of climate action, gender, and SRHR.
We welcome research submissions that are gender-inclusive, particularly from climate-vulnerable settings and from the global south. Submissions can cover a range of topics, including:
• Research on the direct or indirect impacts of climate change and climate mitigating interventions on women’s health, particularly SRHR and related quality of life, including evidence related to maternal health, family planning, safe abortion, SGBV, child marriage, STI and HIV/AIDS, etc.
• Research on factors impacting women’s and girls' quality of life and SRHR access in humanitarian contexts following climate disasters.
• Primary or secondary analysis of gender-disaggregated data on climate and SRHR outcomes, including data from nontraditional data sources (i.e. big data analytics) for identifying trends in SRHR in climate crisis settings.
• Evaluation of effective measures to engender climate and SRHR education, resilient health systems, and/or more effective gender-responsive climate policies.
• Case studies of successful community-level efforts to promote resilience and gender-just SRHR programs to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
• Evaluations of efforts to bolster the resilience of healthcare systems to withstand climate-related disruptions, ensuring equitable access to SRHR services.
• Analysis of impacts and/or approaches to implementing recognized frameworks for improving quality of care such as the WHO framework for climate resilient health for SRHR services.
• Approaches and case studies to fostering more sustainable and inclusive decision-making in national and regional climate policies, funding, and interventions.
• Other research and evidence to inform more gendered climate action and safeguard SRHR.
There is an urgent need for evidence to better inform current and future strategies at the intersection of climate, gender, and SRHR. Building on the energy of COP28, there are calls to prioritize, promote, and increase data collection of gender-disaggregated data, and evidence generation at the nexus of climate, gender, and SRHR. In this call for papers, we welcome original research, case studies, policy analysis, and other evidence that can strengthen knowledge of what is needed to effectively promote more gender-just innovations and programs at the nexus of climate action, gender, and SRHR.
We welcome research submissions that are gender-inclusive, particularly from climate-vulnerable settings and from the global south. Submissions can cover a range of topics, including:
• Research on the direct or indirect impacts of climate change and climate mitigating interventions on women’s health, particularly SRHR and related quality of life, including evidence related to maternal health, family planning, safe abortion, SGBV, child marriage, STI and HIV/AIDS, etc.
• Research on factors impacting women’s and girls' quality of life and SRHR access in humanitarian contexts following climate disasters.
• Primary or secondary analysis of gender-disaggregated data on climate and SRHR outcomes, including data from nontraditional data sources (i.e. big data analytics) for identifying trends in SRHR in climate crisis settings.
• Evaluation of effective measures to engender climate and SRHR education, resilient health systems, and/or more effective gender-responsive climate policies.
• Case studies of successful community-level efforts to promote resilience and gender-just SRHR programs to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
• Evaluations of efforts to bolster the resilience of healthcare systems to withstand climate-related disruptions, ensuring equitable access to SRHR services.
• Analysis of impacts and/or approaches to implementing recognized frameworks for improving quality of care such as the WHO framework for climate resilient health for SRHR services.
• Approaches and case studies to fostering more sustainable and inclusive decision-making in national and regional climate policies, funding, and interventions.
• Other research and evidence to inform more gendered climate action and safeguard SRHR.
Keywords: Climate, gender, sexual and reproductive health, sexual and reproductive rights, intersectional approaches, climate change, environmental changes, health system, health policy
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