We have reviewed policy documents with a thematic area of focus on climate change, and national documents related to climate change on the environment, forestry and watershed, agriculture, and disaster.
Through a gendered lens, the policies are evaluated as gender-blind or gender-aware. For this, we searched for the documents with the terms – “gender”, “women”, “men”, “climate change” or its derivatives.
We then analysed the context in which these words were used: whether or not the policies separate the roles of different actors or seek to address gender-specific needs which enabled the classification of the policies into two broad categories – gender blind and gender aware.
Within gender aware the documents were further classified into gender-neutral – policy targeting “men”, “women” or their derivatives, gender-specific – policy addressing the specific needs of different actors or gender-transformative – policy that transform social structures.
However, a limitation would be that the review focuses on four sectors only which are environment, forestry and watershed, agriculture, and disaster. But there are many other sectors impacted by climate change.