Amplifying voices of women on the nexus of climate change

OVERVIEW LILAK – Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights, a collective of women’s rights advocates, activists, feminists, and indigenous women; with support from the Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) commissioned a scoping study in 2023 that produced the following findings and recommendations on the plight of women and indigenous women in the Philippines. [...] Climate change and Women Climate change aggravates the struggles already bore by • multiple burdens of women being the primary caregivers of women: affected family members, additional income earners, and • insecure land and tenure rights; community workers; exposure to contracting diseases due • lack of access to and control of economic and to limited reproductive health services and facilities an. [...] FINDINGS RECOMMENDATIONS Among indigenous communities, impacts on women and The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) girls are worse because of the multiple forms of 1 and the Philippine Statistics Authority, along with the discrimination and exploitation they face within and provincial and local governments, must include outside their communities. [...] ensure the construction of women and child-friendly Coastal communities continue to be displaced and facilities, including evacuation centers in each locality, and relocated far from fishing areas as a result of the sea level accessibility of sexual and reproductive health services rise, coastal erosion, and other climate disasters. [...] Efforts should be made to inform the public about climate In such a situation, climate crisis will further threaten food 4 change and its impacts, and what can be done at the security and the sufficiency of livelihoods of indigenous community level to adapt and mitigate the impacts of and rural communities.