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Tenders are invited for Consultancy for a Multi-Country Research on Gender and Climate. Closing Date: 23 Feb 2025 Type: Consultancy Themes: Climate Change and Environment/Gender 1. PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT The objective of this consultation is to conduct qualitative research on 3 of the North African countries, in the form of a case study, on the intersections between gender and climate justice. More specifically, this research aims to offer a feminist analysis on the gendered dimension of loss and damage related to climate change. This research also aims to create with Oxfams partners a space for strategic reflection on the issue of Gender and Climate in North Africa. It should provide a common conceptual basis for exploring the possibilities of a common narrative and agenda around this issue. 2. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Project context Oxfams regional office is embarking on a research project on gender and climate justice, which aims to provide a space for Oxfam and its partners to strategically reflect on their intersections, and to co-create a common narrative and agenda around this issue. It also aims to enable Oxfam to establish its strategic programmatic vision. This project focuses particularly on the issue of loss and damage related to climate change. Indeed, at COP28 in 2023, a specific fund for loss and damage related to climate change was finally granted. This fund has yet to be defined in more detail, but it concerns loss and damage, which is the consequences and damage caused by climate change. While there is a general standard definition of loss and damage, there cannot be borrowed language from these terms (source: Oxfam, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe). What loss and damage is needs to be defined at the local level, and based on the realities and meanings that people in affected communities give to their experiences and what is important, and this varies according to their culture. It is therefore important for countries in the North African region to work to conceptualize the meaning given by communities of their loss and damage, and to produce data that helps contextualize these interpretations. For civil society and the actors involved in decision-making on this issue, this production of data is necessary for a common understanding that reflects an accurate image of the communities they are talking about. This project has a multi-country approach in that it focuses on a regional approach, in that it seeks to build, by reflecting on these different realities, a narrative for North Africa. It employs contextualized feminist analysis to explore the needs and narrative of linking gender and climate justice in each of these contexts and at the regional level. Gender and climate Due to structural inequalities, impacts are disproportionately distributed: not only does the marginalization of communities limit their ability to prevent disasters, but disasters also exacerbate these injustices and their marginalizing effects. Thus, climate change is not gender neutral (Kvina till Kvinna, feminist movements and climate justice in mena): it has different impacts on people depending on their gender, ethnic group, economic class, and whether they live with disabilities (source: Oxfam, Asia). Gender-based roles, for example, hold women responsible for unpaid care work, and this has severe consequences for women in the face of climate change: care work can limit access to economic resources and formal work ( What if we went on strike at home? Oxfam in Tunisia) and this has implications for the assistance they can procure after a disaster (Oxfam, Asia). This responsibility to take care of dependent people also reduces their ability to evacuate a place in an emergency and severely increases the risk of death of women during disasters.ophe (Oxfam, Asia). Care responsibilities also increase by 2 to 3 times after a climate disaster (Kvina till Kvinna, feminist movements and climate justice in mena), given for example the lack of access to water, and the weakening of the community fabric that allows care to be shared. Women, through their relationship with nature and their use of natural resources, and through their community role, play an important role in warning of climate change, and they are key actors in disaster responses. Yet, their contributions are diminished or excluded, and the loss and damage they suffer as women and as a result of their gender-based role are ignored or even silenced, including in reparation priorities and financial discussions on loss and damage (Oxfam, Asia). In this sense, it is important to focus on specifically understanding the gendered dimension of economic, and not economic, loss and damage: the gendered dimension in the very meaning of these losses and damages. However, the issue of "Gender and Climate" is approached as an arbitrary and hazardous annexation of two terms, and not a priority. This issue also has little room for discussion among feminist associations in the region. The intersections between gender justice and climate justice mostly arise spontaneously; They are brought to the surface by women themselves these women must use forums for general climate discussions, or other development projects, to voice their need. Documenting their knowledge could encourage the engagement of actors on this issue (Kvina till Kvinna, feminist movements and climate justice in MENA). Therefore, this project aims to offer Oxfam and its partners testimonies and analysis on how these two phenomena gender and climate intersect when approached from a feminist point of view. In other words, this project seeks to conceptualize the issue of climate justice, in itself, and by conceptualizing it directly in its association with gender justice. 3. TARGET AUDIENCE AND USE OF RESEARCH RESULTS The research will include partner associations, and communities impacted by climate change by the countries concerned by the research. The analysis generated by this research aims first and foremost to equip civil society partners, including feminist associations and those working directly on climate justice issues. Government actors and other decisive actors in climate justice such as certain national and international agencies will also be involved. 4. OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH The aim of the research is to inform Oxfam and its partners about the meaning of climate change-related loss and damage when approached from a feminist and evidence-based perspective. By offering a feminist narrative on the gendered dimension of climate change-related loss and damage, this research should empower Oxfam and its partners and create a collective space for strategic thinking to improve their programs. More specifically, this research aims to: Understand the gendered dimension of economic, and non-economic, loss and damage. This research does not seek to quantify these losses and damages, but to "make sense" of them by communities Develop a common and contextualized understanding of the intersections between gender and economic justice, and the terms of loss and damage, that is informed by the experiences of people in the three countries of the region. Develop a common agenda that advocates for an intersectional feminist approach centered on the ways in which people are affected by climate change based on their gender, race, ethnicity, economic class, religion, among others. Identify ongoing initiatives and policies and influential actors on the issue of gender and climate. Capture crowded out local knowledge on how to care for the environment that could improve the response to climate change and reduce loss and damage. 5. RESEARCH QUESTIONS A How gender dynamics affect the economic and non-economic loss and damage dimension of climate change, and the meaning given to it by communities. B Sub-question: What are the gender injustices exacerbated by climate change-related loss and damage? C Sub-question: How economic and non-economic loss and damage are exacerbated by gender injustices. D What are the particularities of each country, and what might be a common definition for the region? E Who are the associations and other key actors influencing the issue of Gender and Climate in the countries concerned by the research and at the regional level? 6. RESEARCH METHODS This research includes three case studies, covering the countries involved in the research. It also includes a regional analysis on North Africa. It should be based on the following methodologies: 1. Literature review to inform feminist analysis on the issue of economic and non-economic loss and damage in the region and globally 2. Mapping of actors and public policies related to the issue of climate justice, in order to identify the key actors with whom to reflect this research 3. Brainstorming workshop or interviews on this research and the questions it needs to answer, with Oxfam and its partners in the three countries. 4. Individual and/or group interviews to collect life stories and reflect on the meaning to be given to the notions of loss and damage and its localized epistemology. 5. Regional workshop with Oxfam and its partners to reflect on the results of the research and identify a collective position on this basis 6. Workshop with Oxfam in North Africa on its programmatic strategy and its role in development programs on gender and climate issues. 7. LIVRABLES Produits et livrables spécifiques . Ces dates sont estimatives et légèrement négociables. Merci dindiquer vos propositions dadaptations dans votre proposition. 1 Sem 3/03: Note méthodologique 2 Sem 10/03: Des questions de recherche confirmée avec les partenaires dOxfam [entretiens individuels ou de groupe avec des partenaires dOxfam sur les priorités de cette recherche et confirmer les questions de recherche] 3 Sem 17/03: Revue de la littérature [sur la question de justice climatique dans la région, et de Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4132556/consultancy-multi-country-research-gender-and-climate
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