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Namibia: Gender roles deepen women’s climate vulnerability – News

Namibia: Gender roles deepen women’s climate vulnerability – News

Africa Links 24 with Absalom Shigwedha
Published on 2025-04-06 19:00:00

A senior academic at the University of Namibia (Unam) has said a number of factors make women more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in Namibia.

Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa, a senior lecturer at Unam, says social and culturally determined gender roles and responsibilities, geographical location, degrees of resilience and less adaptive capabilities are factors affecting vulnerability.

At a one-day workshop on gender and climate change at the end of March, Nghitevelekwa said…

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