Storybook: The Year the Cold Didn’t Come
Through this storybook, IFAD seeks to highlight the impact of climate change in Lao PDR, where those affected the most are rural people, especially women, children and ethnic minorities.
The good practices and lessons learned in IFAD’s Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) contribute to the state of knowledge of what works and what needs to change in integrating gender dimensions into climate action.
IFAD’s support of gender-transformative approaches, that tackle root causes of gender inequality, is an important strategy to empower women and engage men as agents of change in tackling climate change impacts. Communication about these experiences is also an important input to the UNFCCC gender action plan.
This paper has three specific objectives:
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