The Regional Workshop on Gender and Climate-smart Agriculture in ASEAN is the result of a collaborative effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in close collaboration with the ASEAN Secretariat and the ASEAN Committee on Women. The specific objectives of the Regional Workshop on Gender and Climate-smart Agriculture held from 11 to 12 December 2013 in Bangkok were to:
- Promote a common understanding of the linkages between gender and climate change
- impacts, and of the added value of taking a gender perspective to climate-smart agriculture;
- share gender-sensitive climate-smart agriculture practices from the Asia Region;
- develop concrete recommendations and actions for ASEAN to include gender in the multisectoral ASEAN Framework on Climate Change (AFCC), following the principles of the Vientiane Declaration.
The workshop provided a space for ASEAN member states and regionally and nationally based development partners, research institutes, non-governmental organizations and farmer organizations to develop collectively concrete recommendations and actions for the ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN Committee on Women and member states.
