WOCAN will be working with FAO in 2013 to organize a workshop on ‘Gender and Climate-Smart Agriculture in ASEAN’. This is a key activity for FAO’s program of support for the ASEAN regional Multi-Sectoral Framework on Climate Change: Agriculture and Forestry towards Food Security (AFCC). Potential partners for the program are: the CGIAR, the ASEAN-German Programme on Response to Climate Change: Agriculture, Forestry and related Sectors (GAP-CC), and the ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change. The expected outcome is an increased understanding amongst policy makers and project developers of the potential value of integrating gender concerns into agriculture and climate change adaptation policies and projects in the region. WOCAN will also be conducting research to identify good practices where Climate-Smart Agriculture activities have incorporated a gender-sensitive approach. This will provide the supporting document for the workshop.
