ClimGender, an innovative scientific framework for gender and social inclusion integration in sectoral climate change resilience policies

Gender and social inclusion integration is now established as an essential dimension of climate change resilience. It is the option to achieve inclusive, equitable and just climate change resilience configurations. A main lever for significant progress in the integration of gender and social inclusion in climate change resilience policies is efficient and participatory scientific frameworks for specific vulnerable social groups identification, the development of climate change specific impacts, vulnerabilities and resilience solutions families for gender and social inclusion. These scientific frameworks should also be multi-dimensional and take into account climate change indirect impacts.

The purpose of this article is to describe the Badolo ClimGender scientific framework, an innovative scientific framework for gender and social inclusion integration in climate change resilience. The singularities, relevance and efficiency of this scientific framework result from its approach, methodological tools, corpuses of information and solutions and integration scheme.

The main results of this article are plans for gender and social inclusion integration in sectoral climate change resilience policies, implementing the concepts of specific vulnerable social groups, specific climate change impacts, vulnerabilities, resilience solutions and inclusive resilience configurations and markers. They include sequential gender and social inclusion integration actions to achieve successive partial inclusive resilience configurations.

The results of this article suggest a climate change inclusive resilience governance, based more on the criteria of relevance, efficiency and sustainability. Its levers are the engagement, mobilization, participation and contribution of social groups specifically affected by climate change.