Charlotte Scott from SouthSouthNorth, an environmental NGO based in Cape Town, writes about issues related to African urbanisation and informal settlements. Scott states that an understanding of climate resilience within these contexts should be assessed alongside with the impacts of climate change on women. Scott describes the challenges of women face in developing countries, where 44 percent of households are women-headed and women and girls are vulnerable to gender-based violence (using Bihar India’s “sanitation-related rape” as an example). Scott encourages a solution-based framework established on the statistical data of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and the contributions of local government and policymakers in tackling the wideset issues pertinent within gender inequality and the reduction of risk in communities and nations. Photo credit: Meena Kadri
