change governance points to the necessity of participatory climate governance is a multi-stakeholder response by the state, communities, CSOs and the private sector, in information sharing, planning, decision making and resource mobilisation around adaptation strategies.344 In this regard, recognising the rights of different categories of women to participation in all these efforts through a gender mainstreaming and gender responsive budgeting approach is key. 7.0 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Conclusions This report establishes three important findings. First, structural violence that builds up to violent conflict affects women in multiple forms based on their various identities as females, and as members of affected populations afflicted by poverty, regional inequality, climate change, social injustice, ethnic targeting etcetera. Women are specifically targeted for victimisation, explaining why in violent conflict they are overrepresented as refugees and IDPs. The more their sociological and biological 344 GSDRC ‘National Climate Change Governance’ January 2017 University of Birmingham. Available at https://gsdrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/NatCCGov.pdf 107