Course overview
Climate change policy is often treated as a technical challenge — emissions targets, infrastructure, disaster modelling and finance. This module reframes climate change as a GEDSI issue because climate shocks amplify existing inequalities by gender, disability, age, ethnicity, location and social status. A climate policy that ignores differential vulnerability misallocates resources, overlooks the highest-risk groups and produces maladaptation. This module equips officials to apply a GEDSI lens before policy is finalised — not as a compliance add-on, but as an effectiveness requirement.
Learning objectives
- Define GEDSI and explain why inclusion is relevant to climate policy effectiveness.
- Explain four mechanisms by which climate change amplifies inequality.
- Use disaggregated data to identify who is most affected by climate hazards.
- Distinguish gender-blind, gender-aware and GEDSI-responsive climate policy.
- Apply a five-question GEDSI lens to a climate policy brief.
- Explain why gender-blind policy creates worse adaptation outcomes.