As the country and the globe continues to grapple with issues of climate change, experts in the gender sector are urging all partners to always consider including minority groups equitably as they move towards combating climate change issues on grounds that they also contribute towards national and global development.
Delivering a paper on gender and equality inclusiveness on climate change issues Evans Jemba from the Equal opportunities commission confirms that whenever government and development partners are planning for the nation or drafting programmes most of the time these programmes are gender insensitive which exclude some sections of the population in the country and now the commission urges all partners to always consider drafting balanced programmes for the nation as far as gender is concerned.
Evans further notes that groups of women, children, youth, elderly, Batwa, Iki, Bamba among other groups are left out yet when negative climate effects manifest they are the ones highly affected. Since these groups are contributors to destroying the environment, they on the other side contribute to mitigating climate change impacts.