Beyond a token effort: Gender transformative climate change action in the Pacific

Gender inequality, unequal power relations and discrimination are barriers that often prevent women, girls and people of diverse sexual and gender identities from equal representation and participation in many aspects of society. Addressing these issues in climate change programming is crucial, given the ways in which climate change can amplify existing gender inequalities (CEDAW 2018). Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are already experiencing the impacts of climate change. Although the diverse cultures of the Pacific have adapted to severe weather over the millennia, the broad range and severity of climate change impacts require new interventions to ensure lives and access to basic rights are protected. All sectors and all levels of society—from local to national, rural to urban—require new ways of working to adapt to climate change. These new ways need to ensure that marginalised segments of society, including women, girls and boys, people of diverse sexual and gender identities, people with disability and indigenous people, are considered. ‘Gender transformative climate change action’ seeks to address some of these issues, by transforming underlying norms and behaviours, relations, systems and structures to ensure gender equality

Review of the implementation of WaterAid’s gender manual and facilitated sessions

This report was developed as a result of a partnership between Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (ISF-UTS) and WaterAid. The strategic and practical gender changes that men and women had experienced at community and household levels were discovered through the project. The study engaged 172 people across nine communities with an explicit focus on reflection, learning and action research with 18 field staff

Authorship and recognition in knowledge production in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) – A guidance note

The purpose of this document is to improve awareness about and provide guidance on practices that support the representation and amplify voices of researchers and professionals from lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the production of knowledge about water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)

Structure and elastic properties of Mg(OH)2_2 from density functional theory

The structure, lattice dynamics and mechanical properties of the magnesium hydroxide have been investigated with static density functional theory calculations as well as \it {ab initio} molecular dynamics. The hypothesis of a superstructure existing in the lattice formed by the hydrogen atoms has been tested. The elastic constants of the material have been calculated with static deformations approach and are in fair agreement with the experimental data. The hydrogen subsystem structure exhibits signs of disordered behaviour while maintaining correlations between angular positions of neighbouring atoms. We establish that the essential angular correlations between hydrogen positions are maintained to the temperature of at least 150 K and show that they are well described by a physically motivated probabilistic model. The rotational degree of freedom appears to be decoupled from the lattice directions above 30K