Analyzing how social protection shapes gendered impacts of climate change

Abstract

Analytical approach for researchers to conduct mixed-method multi-country assessment of how social protection shapes gendered impacts of climate change.

Analytical approach for researchers to pair quantitative and qualitative research in multiple countries, to assess how social protection shapes gendered impacts of climate change. Quantitative approach entails merging household survey data from randomized controlled trials on social protection interventions with external climate data, to assess the effects of climate hazards on gendered outcomes, as well as how those effects change when climate hazards overlap with receipt of social protection. The complementary qualitative approach entails interviewing women and men in the same setting on how they perceive climate change, how they perceive social protection’s role or limitations in helping them adapt, and what changes to social protection could better support them. The combined approach across settings allows researchers to assess what impacts social protection has on gendered impacts of climate change, how and why, what design changes to social protection could do better, and how these patterns vary by context. Photo credit for the provided photo in the visuals section of this entry is: Sylyvann Borei/WorldFish More visuals (and potentially more references) can be provided upon request.