The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) supports developing world journalism and perspectives from the heart of the international climate negotiations. The CCMP encourages public debate and scrutiny on climate change issues in the media at the local, national and international levels. Within the scope of the CCMP’s work, we recognise the importance of women’s inclusion and participation in the media, as well as the need to examine the different impacts of climate change on men, women, girls and boys and the urgency of highlighting these issues to local, national and international audiences.

The CCMP commits to:

Develop and implement our programme using a gendered approach in both our media development and thematic work. A gendered approach includes examining the ways in which women and men engage with the CCMP journalists, climate experts, locals and other stakeholders; assess the gender-specific barriers that prevent men and women from equally engaging with the CCMP’s work and within the media sector generally; and the ways in which the CCMP programme impacts women and men.

Non-discriminatory recruitment processes and to actively encourage women to apply for the fellowship programme and participate as climate experts in all programme activities.

Evaluating the CCMP’s gender approach to our work during the monitoring and evaluation phase of each project year cycle, and at any point during the programme as necessary.

The CCMP strives to:

Integrate a gendered approach into research conducted on climate change coverage in Southern media.

Build upon our meaning of a gendered approach through continual engagement with gender experts.

Build upon and expand the gender indicators used to assess the CCMP’s commitment to gender equity in all aspects of our work.

Gender indicators
The CCMP uses the following indicators to examine the extent to which a gendered approach is integrated into our work:

The number of women and men journalists selected for the fellowship programme to be assessed during each fellowship cycle as well as the overall number of journalists who have worked with the CCMP.

The number of women and men participating in the design and implementation of programme activities.

Consideration of the different needs of men and women in designing programme activities.

Content analysis of CMCP programme activities to assess the extent to which discussions include any level of gender analysis.

Content analysis of the outputs produced by the fellows and generally on climate change to identify the gender balance in the outputs (content, language, use of images).