Gender differentiated vulnerability to climate change in Eastern Uganda
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Date
2019
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Climate and Development
Abstract
Climate change literature is rife with the assertion that women are more vulnerable to climate change,
which state is expected to reflect on female-headed households. However, this assertion has however
not been empirically proven aside from the general poverty-gender linkages. This study used primary
data collected in 2016 from 735 randomly selected households from four districts in Eastern Uganda to
construct a gender vulnerability index to compare and explain the drivers of vulnerability between
male and female-headed households. The results show that female-headed households were more
vulnerable (GVI-IPCC = −0.134) than male-headed households (GVI-IPCC = −0.176). The results further
show that disparity in adaptive capacity mediates vulnerability between male and female-headed
households. This underscores the importance of proactive interventions rather than protectionist
approaches to reducing vulnerability. The study has extended the analytical utility of the livelihood
vulnerability index to create a gender vulnerability index for comparing contextual groups of
households in Eastern Uganda.
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Gender, Climate change, Adaptive capacity, Vulnerability
Citation
Kenneth Balikoowa, Gorettie Nabanoga, David Mwesigye Tumusiime & Michael S. Mbogga (2019): Gender differentiated vulnerability to climate change in Eastern Uganda, Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2019.1580555