Gender & Climate Archives

Gender and Climate Learning Series: Insights, Frameworks and Resources for Climate Justice

Asar, in partnership with the Community for Gender Equality and Climate Justice, launched the Gender and Climate Learning Series in July 2025, designed to deepen understanding, spark dialogue, and strengthen action at the critical intersection of gender and climate change.

While gender and climate are often discussed separately, their intersection holds transformative potential for equitable and effective climate solutions. This inaugural series aimed to bridge the gaps in knowledge, implementation, and evidence, making the case for why gender justice must be central to climate action.

Over four sequenced webinars, the series translated grassroots work into a shared learning space that participants could engage with, reflect on, and contribute to laying the groundwork for a community of practice. It brought together more than 600 participants from 30 countries, including practitioners, researchers, organisers, artists, and community members.

Organising, Counter-Culture and Climate Action: Community Pathways to Climate Justice

The fourth webinar, “𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧,” explored how communities, especially women, have been at the heart of powerful organising through informal gatherings, art, music, storytelling, and everyday acts of care. It deep-dived into how these spaces have nurtured counter-cultures that shift dominant narratives, reclaim dignity, and make climate action a deeply personal and collective experience.

This learning brief explores with case studies how counter-cultures shift dominant systems and narratives around climate and the practices, and creative tools for building equitable and just climate futures.

Behaviour Change Communication for Climate Action: Resource List

The third webinar, “The Role of Behaviour Change Communication in Enabling Climate Transitions,” explored how climate transitions require more than just technologies and policies.

The webinar introduced the basics of Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) in climate action, particularly when working with communities.

Here’s a resource list that highlights how well-designed BCC strategies can support households in adopting climate-friendly practices, reduce women’s drudgery, improve health outcomes, and open pathways for empowerment and resilience.

Gender Transformative Climate Framework: Learning Brief and Key Insights

The webinar “𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲,” highlighted key insights from “Urgent Imperatives: Advancing Gender Equality in Climate Action,” a peer-reviewed paper by Neha Saigal and Saumya Shrivastava, published in the Journal of Human Rights and Social Work (Springer Nature). The session introduced the Gender Transformative Climate Framework, a tool that centres equity, intersectionality, and justice in climate action.

This learning brief shares the story of its creation and outlines its core components, with the hope that it sparks further experimentation, adaptation, and collective building of feminist climate frameworks that disrupt dominant narratives and centre justice at the heart of climate policy, practice and decision making.

Climate-Resilient Livelihoods in Koraput, Led by Indigenous Women: Learning Brief

The first webinar, ‘𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧-𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬’, spotlighted powerful stories from the ground, featuring Adivasi women from Koraput, Odisha, who are leading efforts to build climate-resilient livelihoods. The webinar explored how their leadership is rooted in feminist principles and Indigenous knowledge systems, offering transformative, community-driven pathways to resilience.

Here’s the learning brief created for the webinar to capture key insights and document the practices that are enabling Indigenous women to lead climate-resilient livelihood transitions in Koraput.

National Consultation on the Role of Panchayats in Gender Responsive Climate Action

At the National Consultation on the Role of Panchayats in Gender Responsive Climate Action on 8 October, leaders from government, academia, and civil society came together to reimagine women leadership and Panchayats as the foundation of inclusive, locally grounded climate governance. Organised by Yashwantrao Chavan Centre, Resource and Support Centre for Development (RSCD), and Asar, the consultation saw participation from representatives across Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Karnataka
Key recommendations included empowering tribal women for climate-resilient livelihoods, panchayats with climate finance autonomy, strengthening institutional support during climate disasters, supporting women farmers during climate crises, and ensuring gender-inclusive early warning systems.

Training Modules on the inter-linkages of Gender and Climate Change in India

Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS), Department of Rural Development, Government of Jharkhand in partnership with Asar and Child in Need Institute (CINI) have created training modules on the interlinkages of Gender and Climate Change in India. The modules were launched on August 25 in Ranchi and are being rolled out with JSLPS Self Help Groups across Jharkhand. These structured and interactive modules are designed to:

Build awareness among women Self Help Groups (SHGs) on the gendered impacts of climate change.
Strengthen women’s leadership in shaping equitable, context-specific climate solutions and facilitating the creation of locally led climate action plans.
Support marginalised communities with the knowledge, skills, and systems to adapt and build resilience to climate change.

The modules mark an important step in strengthening gender and climate linkages while building climate resilience for the state.

Assessment Report | Role of Vulnerability in Transition to Clean Cooking: A Case of Chikhli Slum in Nagpur, Maharashtra

This assessment explores the barriers to clean cooking among vulnerable communities in Chikhli slums, Nagpur, using a compounding vulnerability framework. Despite access to LPG connections, most households rely heavily on biomass due to affordability issues, cultural norms, and lack of awareness. Women, especially those in hazardous informal jobs, face severe health risks from continued chulha use. The report highlights the need for multifaceted policy interventions—ranging from targeted subsidies and IEC campaigns to land rights and localized LPG delivery—to support a just transition. It urges Nagpur Municipal Corporation to address intersecting socio-economic, gendered, and occupational vulnerabilities holistically.

Social and Behaviour Change for Reducing Household Air Pollution Handbook for the Facilitator

This facilitator handbook is part of the Cleaner Air and Better Health (CABH) project and aims to reduce Household Air Pollution (HAP) in Jharkhand through community-led Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC). Designed for use with Self-Help Group (SHG) women, it outlines three interactive group meetings focused on HAP awareness, promoting clean cooking alternatives like LPG, and enabling economic empowerment. Activities such as conversation maps, flashcards, and games guide participatory learning. The handbook culminates in a community meeting to reinforce key messages and catalyse collective action, with a strong focus on inclusivity, behavioural change, and local ownership.

Report-category: Gender & Climate