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This document provides guidance on how to incorporate disability inclusion within climate change programming in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), Syria, Turkey and Yemen. It is intended to inform the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) climate change programming in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

• Iraq
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Syria
• Turkey
• Yemen
• Climate resilience
• Disability Inclusion Helpdesk
• 2021

This report summarises the evidence on the gendered impacts of transition to a low carbon economy.

• Low Carbon Growth and Mitigation
• 2022

This report summarises the evidence exploring the prevalence of GBV against climate change activists and environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs), its impact on climate and environmental activism, and efforts to address GBV in this context.

• Climate resilience
• 2024

This report aims to support policy makers and practitioners in understanding how addressing GBV supports the effectiveness of climate change programmes and policies. It shares examples of emerging good practice and provides recommendations for all stakeholders to address GBV more comprehensively.

• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• 2024

This policy brief was produced by the Ending Violence against Women and Children (VAWC) Helpdesk, as part of the UKʼs What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls: Impact at Scale programme (ʻWhat Works IIʼ). The funds were managed by the International Rescue Committee. The policy brief was written by Francesca Rhodes of Care International UK, Naomi Clugston of Social Development Direct and Erika Fraser of Social Development Direct. It builds on an accompanying report that details contributions by practitioners and experts working at the intersection between climate change and GBV.

• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• 2024

This primer brings together the latest thinking about how women’s economic empowerment and climate change intersect. Together with the complementary briefing on women and the Net Zero economy, it was produced ahead of COP26 to support the UK government to better understand the differential effects of climate change and the inclusion of women in climate action.

• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2021

This review of the Jordan Humanitarian, Inclusion and Protection (HIP) portfolio found that International Climate Finance (ICF) allocations for humanitarian programmes is currently unclear on issues relating to refugee populations and displaced peoples. Climate impacts in Jordan are disproportionately felt by vulnerable groups, particularly refugees and displaced peoples. Work delivered identified opportunities to mainstream climate considerations into the programme, and highlighted evidence-based opportunities for ICF spend and results.  

• Jordan
• Humanitarian
• 2024

Conflict increases vulnerability to climate change, i.e. climate impacts are often exacerbated in conflict settings. Humanitarian programmes, operating in fragile and conflict-affected regions, that fail to account for the effects of current and future climate change scenarios run the risk of implementing ineffective or maladaptive interventions. The CLEAN Helpdesk provided SSHARP with support on two pieces of work which assessed climate risks to and from the programme and provided options for further climate mainstreaming and ICF allocations for the programme.

• South Sudan
• Humanitarian
• 2025

This policy brief, developed for the UK’s (November) 2023 Global Food Security Summit, summarises insights from recent research from Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) in the Sahel, Syria and Yemen: mostly semi-arid areas subject to protracted crises and conflict, sometimes exacerbated by natural disasters, where food crises and food emergencies threaten.

• Syria
• Yemen
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

This WOW Helpdesk query identifies potential economic opportunities for urban women and youth in the green-growth and low-carbon sectors of the economy in Mozambique. A desk review of literature on green growth and green jobs and skills for urban women and youth was complemented by interviews with one key informant based in Mozambique. The evidence was presented and discussed at a consultation with representatives from FCDO and MUVA.

• Mozambique
• Gender Equity
• urban development
• 2021