Climate change policies and programmes across regions reveal wide variation in the degree and approach to addressing gender inequities . In most regions where there are climate change policies that consider gender, they inadequately address structural inequalities resulting from climate change impacts, or how gender and other social inequalities can compound risk . Experiences show that it is more frequent to address specific gender inequality gaps in access to resources. Regionally, Central and South American countries  have a range of gender-sensitive or gender-specific policies such as the intersectoral coordination initiative Gender and Climate Change Action Plans , adopted in Perú, Cuba, Costa Rica and Panamá , or the Gender Environmental policy in Guatemala that has a focus on climate change . However, countries often have limited commitment and capacity to evaluate the impact of such policies . In North and South America, policies have failed to address how climate change vulnerability is compounded by the intersection of race, ethnicity and gender (Radcliffe, 2014; Vinyeta et al.,
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