Integrating gender considerations into community-based adaptation in agrarian communities in the Lower Mekong Basin

This report highlight insights, opportunities and challenges that may help policymakers and practitioners carry out more inclusive, gender-responsive adaptation planning for rural communities. It also contributes toward expanding the understanding of gender and community-based adaptation (CBA) based on the project's on-the-ground experience in adaptation planning and implementation in the Lower Mekong Basin.

The publication provides recommendations on how to integrate gender considerations into CBA (p. 25-31):

• practitioners:
  • commit time and resources to realising gender-responsive CBA;
  • forge connections to support networking within or between villages.
• donors:
  • encourage early attention to gender dimensions;
  • create opportunities for expanding capacity and knowledge regarding gender.
• governments:
  • expand opportunities for women’s participation at all levels of the government;
  • support policies and processes that engage women as equal partners in decision-making.
• academia:
  • continue building the evidence base on the social and gender dimensions of climate change;
  • expand research on urban areas, special groups and on impacts of policies on gender roles.