Technical Guidance Note: The Integration of Climate, Gender Equality and Health into Programming in Development and Humanitarian Contexts

The World Health Organization (WHO) states that the climate crisis is the greatest single threat to human health in the 21st century. When the gender dimension is added to climate and health linkages, the complexity increases.

Through this note, Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health (CanWaCH) seeks to support our sector to better understand the multiple, complex, integrated, and often reciprocal links between climate change, the environment and women and children’s health.

Considering the profound impact of the climate crisis on the health and well-being of vulnerable communities, disproportionately affecting women and girls, this technical guidance note aims to provide the CanWaCH membership with some suggested tools and resources to ensure more effective integration of climate change and the environment considerations into global health and gender equality programming.

The intended audience for this technical guidance note includes practitioners, implementers and researchers, many of whom are working in partnership with the Government of Canada on global health and gender equality programming.