Toolkit for Applying a Gender-Transformative Approach to Women-Led Climate Resilience

Welcome to the Toolkit for Applying a Gender-Transformative Approach to Women-led Climate Resilience—a resource for donors, policy makers, international development practitioners, gender experts, and community-based organizations working at the intersection of gender, climate, and health.

This toolkit—informed by Pathfinder’s implementation of the Advancing the Leadership of Women and Girls Towards Better Health and Climate Change Resilience project in Bangladesh and Pakistan—offers a practical guide for applying a gender-transformative approach (GTA) to efforts aimed at enhancing community resilience in the wake of climate change induced emergencies and disasters. The toolkit helps users develop GTA-based interventions to promote women’s leadership in improving community resilience to climate change and expanding access to quality health care.

This toolkit will walk you through the three phases of our GTA approach: (1) Collaborative Design, (2) Co-implementation—with a distinct set of activities to address four levels of the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM)—and (3) Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning. For each phase, you will find practical guidance, links to relevant tools and templates, and real-life examples of these concepts in action.

Annexes

1. Community Risk Assessment
2. Baseline Questionnaire
3. Planning Individual-Level GTA Interventions to Build Women’s Agency
4. Health Facility Assessment
5. Health Facility Assessment: Disaster Preparedness and Service Readiness Assessment of the Health Facilities in the Climate Vulnerable North-Eastern Areas in Bangladesh 
6. SRHR and Climate Change Module
7. Nutrition and Climate Change Module
8. Climate Champions’ Information, Education, and Communication Material
9. Media Consent Form
10. I Want to Change…
11. Personal Beliefs vs. Social Norms
12. Worksheet: Collective Action Plan
13. Information, Education, and Communication Materials – Bangladesh
14. Flipchart Manuals – Bangladesh
15. Facility-Level Disaster Preparedness Contingency Plan
16. Gender Training Module – Bangladesh
17. Curriculum Incubation Hub
18. School-Based Disaster Risk Management Guidebook
19. School Safety Plan Module – Bangladesh
20. GTA Pre- and Post-Questionnaire

Pathfinder International, with generous support from the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited’s Global CSR Program, implemented the Advancing the Leadership of Women and Girls Towards Better Health and Climate Change Resilience in Bangladesh and Pakistan from 2022 to 2025. The project strengthened health systems, enhanced women’s and young people’s leadership in climate adaptation, and improved community resilience to climate change.