Out now: Gender Responsive Climate Action in Myanmar

UN Habitat recently published Gender Responsive Climate Action illustrating the added value of gender mainstreaming local climate action in Myanmar. The publication summarizes the process of gender sensitization at local level building on the Climate and Gender Analysis that I have conducted for the UN Habitat Myanmar Office as part of the EU funded Myanmar Climate Change Alliance project (MCCA2).

The vast ethnic and cultural diversity of the country, compounded by colonial regulations overlying customary law makes local gender realities divers and complex. A comprehensive Gender Mainstreamed Baseline Survey Tool that was developed as part of the Climate and Gender Analysis provides project teams and action partnerships with a deeper and nuanced understanding of local gender realities and concrete entry points to ensure that women and men benefit equally from jointly developed interventions.