As developed by IRADe, the climate adaptive and gender integrated plan policy recommendations for Surat City adds the following advantages to the locally-led efforts to mitigate heat stress:
- It provides a climate-sensitive framework for implementation, coordination and evaluation
- Alerts populations at risk of heat-related illness in places where extreme heat conditions prevail, by adopting dynamic climate intelligence
- It provides gendered response to the differential impacts of heat wave.
This report discusses a framework for developing such climate adaptive and gender-inclusive heat action plans, by discussing the gendered survey findings and vulnerability assessments which were conducted as a part of the CBA2021-07SY-Magotra project. The report also discusses potential strategies and modes of implementation for such an action plan in Surat City.