tanner session 5 presentation

Youth, gender and climate change: Moving from impacts to agency

Thomas Tanner Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK

Conference on Adolescent Girls: Cornerstone of Society: 26th April 2010

Instrumental focus on impacts

Within this response, there are missing faces

Source: Save the Children Bangladesh

Also fails to stress social justice dimensions

Source: Patz et al, 2007 Ecohealth 4(4)

Justice and Child Rights Framings

Key concerns Key rights affected

Lack of access to water and irrigation infrastructure

Rights to survival and development

Insecure livelihoods / access to education

Right to education, Right to survival and devt Right to non-discrimination Right to protection

Insecurity associated with risks of abuse

Right to protection

Local environmental degradation

All particularly rights to survival and development

Lack of voice or power Right to participate Source: Polack, 2010. Children in a Changing Climate working paper

Realising agency 1

Opening procedural spaces from local to international scale

Realising agency 2

•  Different ways that children conceptualise risks and opportunities from climate change.

Source: Tanner et al 2009 Participatory Learning and Action 60

Implementation

Communication

Analysis Mobilisation  

Realising agency 3

•  Recognising the broader multiple benefits of child agency

Source: Tanner 2010 Children and Society 24(3)

But enough of my voice…

•  Participatory video made by group of young people in Barobo Eastern Samar, Philippines

•  Barobo, The sinking Barangay

www.childreninachangingclimate.org

T.tanner@ids.ac.uk