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Gender and Equity Considerations for Building Climate Resilience: Lessons from Rural and Periurban Botswana

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  • Kutlwano Makwatse

    (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Botswana, Gaborone 4775, Botswana)

  • Leatile Modie

    (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Botswana, Gaborone 4775, Botswana)

  • Morati Mpalo

    (Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Palapye 10071, Botswana)

  • Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa

    (School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa)

Abstract

Botswana’s new national climate-adaptation plan framework acknowledges the fundamental challenges climate change is posing to household resilience. While the plan aims to be gender-responsive, there is limited empirical data on the current gender dynamics around household-level climate-adaptive priorities and practices. This study aims to understand the gendered variations of how people understand resilience to climate change in both rural and a periurban areas. The authors then consider how these views are reflected in current climate-adaptation policies and responses. A household-level baseline survey with 141 participants was conducted in Ramotswa and Xhumaga, using participant-coded narratives to understand how people understand resilience to climate change. This study found that planning for the shocks and stressors of climate change is gendered, and these variations have important implications for how equity should be reflected in a policy response.

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  • Kutlwano Makwatse & Leatile Modie & Morati Mpalo & Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa, 2022. "Gender and Equity Considerations for Building Climate Resilience: Lessons from Rural and Periurban Botswana," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-14, August.
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