tanner session 5 presentation
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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
