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.