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Design adaptation programmes in food security, agriculture, rangelands and managing natural resources in ways that are sensitive and responsive to the different and multiple roles women and men play in various spheres of natural resource management, as well as their households, communities, livelihoods, and customary and statutory institutions and relations (local, national, regional and international). The programmes should have a strong focus on women and gender equity to ensure successful implementation and that adequate resources are allocated to translate this vision into tangible action.


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Improve women’s livelihoods and strengthen adaptation by ensuring women’s access, control and ownership of resources (such as land, livestock, property and income opportunities), and access to development resources such as credit, information, training and outreach, and culturally appropriate and labour-saving technology.


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Invest in gender sensitive and culturally appropriate labour- saving green technologies, water harvesting, storage, irrigation systems, and substitutes for fuel wood and use (including mechanisms for maintenance). Design and implement these investments in collaboration with women to reflect their needs and concerns. Ensure that physical, cultural, social, economic and practical elements are compatible with their livelihood practices within diverse ecosystems supporting agriculture, pastures, forests, watersheds, households and communities.


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Conduct a systematic analysis of climate change from environmental, development and gender equity perspectives to fill urgent gaps in research, knowledge and data. Disaggregate data by gender and other domains of difference, such as class, age, marital status, lifecycle positioning, ethnicity,


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caste, profession, and ensure they are understood within the context of power relations emanating from these differences. Research should focus on the differentiated experiences of women and men in terms of adaptation, impacts, responses, vulnerabilities and opportunities provided by climate and other simultaneous drivers of change. However, there should be a distinct focus on women’s needs, priorities, constraints, impacts, local strategies, knowledge and meaningful participation that defines their local responses in the context of often unequal gender relations.


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Ensure an enabling environment for the increased participation and substantive inputs of women in decision


and policy-making in local, community, national, regional and international institutions, processes, negotiations and policies related to climate change issues. Adaptation programmes should have long-term goals of increasing gender and social security needs, safety nets and active participation of women in governance at every level through participatory policies and targets, and capacity strengthening, development of leadership and technical skills, and clear recognition and support of their rights, agency and knowledge.


risk of gender-based violence, sexual abuse and trafficking in the context of mountain regions, but especially in high-risk flood, drought and disaster prone areas.


Collaborate among and between national police authorities, customs authorities, anti-trafficking NGOs, research institutions and INTERPOL to detect, intercept and combat national and trans-boundary trafficking of women and children.


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Ensure that education, training, awareness raising and information programs address the vulnerability and


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