On 15 October, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and CARE International launched a Gender and Inclusion Toolbox. This is one of the held presentations, by Agnes Otzelberger, from CARE International, on changing climates and gender relations: Why research and practice are inseparable

1. Changing climates and gender relations:
Why research and practice are inseparable
CCAFS Gender Toolbox launch, ICRAF Nairobi 15 Oct 2014
Agnes Otzelberger, CARE International

2. CARE’s climate change work: Social justice, gender equality
and resilience for people living in poverty
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3. Gender and climate change: We’re still learning
Global efforts in integrating gender and action
on climate change “on the ground”
•Gender inequality = core concern in CARE’s work.
Deeply rooted and widespread form of social inequality
across the world, everywhere we work
•Finding truly gender-transformative approaches and
tackling the climate change challenge are both
immense learning efforts
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 combining them even more so, both in
practice and research!

4. Why do we care about gender?
• Whether it’s farming, fishing or trade: every livelihood has a
gender dimension, specific to culture and context
• Gender relations influence people’s roles and expectations
• Widespread inequalities in distribution of resources and power
 impacts on livelihoods, risk reduction, adaptive capacity
• Knowledge and priorities are diverse
and complementary!
• Gender-blind planning undermines
successful initiatives and can make
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existing inequalities worse
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5. Good practices in gender integration are about good
gender analysis, learning and evidence
Gender analysis
•In various form, is at the
core
•early on!
•No one, universal way
•Gender = power!!!
•Gender relations are not
static
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…makes a difference in
•WHAT
•HOW
•WHO
Planning, M&E
Analysis should include
• understanding of drivers of change in
gender roles and relations
• a starting point for monitoring and
documenting gender-related outcomes

6. Gender and Climate: Transforming how we understand
change
Gender analysis informs action on climate change
about wo/men’s & boys’/girl’s
status in…
• access to & control over assets
• decision-making at different levels
• division of labour and use of time
• participation in public spaces
• agency and aspirations for oneself
• ….
…. and about how these change over time.
Climatic shifts, too, catalyse change in gender roles!
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7. Doing analysis is part of good practice:
• It allows for better
understanding of differential
vulnerability within
communities and households
• It shows the differences of
and complementarities
between women’s and men’s
experience in coping with and
adapting to shocks and
stressors
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Gender analysis!
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• It forms the basis for valuing and
strengthening women’s and men’s
knowledge, participation and voice in
processes informing community-based
adaptation

8. Doing better research is key for filling gaps in our
overall understanding
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Researching gender and
climate change in agriculture
should help us understand:
•How social relations evolve in the
face of rapid or gradual (and
unpredictable) change in farming
communities (M&E)
•How gender relations and inequality
influence resilience building in
agriculture
•The same vice versa
•Gender beyond a tunnel view on
women as an isolated, homogenous
group
•What resilience and adaptive capacity
means for different social groups and
•What really works for transforming the
structural inequalities that make people
vulnerable

9. Concluding points: Practicing research together
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CARE & CCAFS - working together at all
levels, learning by doing:
• Collaborative learning by doing in communities:
e.g. in the context of various pilot project initiatives, often
with gender focus e.g. in Northern Ghana (toolbox
testing) and Western Kenya (mitigation & agriculture
initiative)
• Influencing research & practice through capacity-building
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(training and toolbox)
• Influencing policy through alliances (e.g. Africa
Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance)

10. THANK YOU!
www.careclimatechange.org
CARE, climate change and gender: aotzelberger@careclimatechange.org
Adaptation Learning Programme for Africa: fiona@careclimatechange.org