Interview with Syeda Hadika Jamshaid - SAR-CLIMATE

Women and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change

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Pakistan is implementing various initiatives that have tried to address gender-related issues, apart from mitigating climate change impacts. Examples include the following projects:

We have started the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme (TBTPP). This programme provides livelihood opportunities for women in forestry.

It also assists women with raising plant nurseries in rural areas. Importantly, it employs female community mobilization teams of the Forest Department; which would approach those women who are impoverished and destitute, and then educate and train them.

Another initiative is the Prime Minister’s Green Stimulus package which is targeted at COVID-idled daily wagers, including women, and largely focuses on diverting and re-configuring components of TBTTP to plant trees, raise saplings, and protect the plantations from intruders.

Clean Green Pakistan Movement (CGPM) was re-designed post-COVID to assist with the objectives of job creation, by contributing to total sanitation, solid waste management, and hygiene within identified districts of two provinces (Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).

This movement was redesigned to target a total of 53,250 livelihood opportunities over the span of three months.

This would include community and, social mobilizers raising awareness around sanitation and drain cleaning, garbage collectors/scavengers, as well as certified Clean Green Champions.

After the success of the pilot phase, the movement has been scaled up to include Azad Jammu Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.

I would also like to mention Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) risk reduction in Northern Pakistan which aims at building resilience through Early Warning Systems (EWS), infrastructure, and disaster management policies.

Project planning involved gender assessment: it aims to ensure enhanced participation of women.

All the above-mentioned adaptation measures are created with the intention of building community resilience by means of enhancing the participation of women.

Besides, with a view to narrowing gender gaps and integrating gender perspectives in all sectoral policies, plans and strategies, the National Climate Change Gender Action Plan (ccGAP) is currently being drafted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Pakistan in coordination with the Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) and other relevant stakeholders.

We need policies which necessitate all programs to be gender-sensitive.

 

Jamshaid spoke to Bhawana Upadhay, Senior Specialist, Gender and Inclusion, ADPC.

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