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March 13, 2024

Final Study Report: Scaling Up SRHR/FP for Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Uganda

This study report explores the readiness study on advancing and scaling up sexual reproductive health rights and family planning for climate adaptation and resilience in Uganda. The study aimed at […]

November 3, 2022

Climate Change and Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights (SRHR) Interactive Website

Climate resilience and gender equality are inextricably linked, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are an essential element of gender equality. How can we ensure that climate action […]

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: Exploring a pathway for realizing rights and resilience to climate change

Governments around the world are advancing their National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes in an effort to build resilience to the negative impacts of climate change. With increased attention to gender […]

Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Climate change disproportionately threatens the most vulnerable girls and women, in all their intersecting identities, and has detrimental effects on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This infographic highlights […]

November 5, 2021

Building Forward Better: Advancing SRHR for Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Discussions around climate change and sexual and reproductive health rarely occur in the same spaces, despite ever growing evidence showing that they should. Climate change threatens human health and rights—and […]

Girls’ Education and Family Planning: Essential Components of Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Today, both universal education and sexual and reproductive health and rights are severely underfunded, particularly for women and girls in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs). Dedicating climate adaptation financing […]

April 14, 2021

Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Current Research and Needs for Population Information

This paper addresses four related topics: (1) varying definitions of vulnerability and resilience (and, to a lesser extent, adaptive capacity) and the implications of those differences for societal analysis, (2) candidate approaches to characterizing societal resilience to climate change, (3) methods for assessing resilience, and (4) the potential contribution of a richer understanding of affected populations to the study of resilience.

The Role of Community-Based Coastal Conservation and Development Initiatives in Building Social-Ecological Resilience to Climate Change: Experiences From Southern Madagascar

This article examines a PHE program in Madagascar, and illustrates how practical initiatives can contribute to building immediate and long-lasting resilience and adaptive capacity.

April 13, 2021

Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch: Report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health

This Commission identifies three categories of challenges that must be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends, and identifies opportunities for action to reduce environmental damage by six key constituencies: health professionals, research funders and the academic community, the UN and Bretton Woods bodies, governments, investors and corporate reporting bodies, and civil society organisations

Resilience, Integrated Development and Family Planning: Building Long-Term Solutions

This article examines resilience; summarises approaches to resilience developed by the Rockefeller and Packard Foundations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, USAID and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID); and describes successful examples of how family planning has been integrated into current environment and development programmes.