Webinar: Challenging assumptions about gender and climate adaptation: It’s not always what, or who, you think!

06 Mar 2018
06 Mar 2018

Webinar
14th March 2018, 12:00pm GMT

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Challenging assumptions about gender and climate adaptation:
It’s not always what, or who, you think

This webinar took place in conjunction with the 62nd session on the Commission on the Status of Women, which focused on gender and the empowerment of rural women and girls.



Introduced by Daniel Morchain from Oxfam GB, we will discuss:

· Gender as just one factor determining vulnerability

Margaret Angula, University of Namibia

· Women’s agency and livelihood diversification

Prathigna Poonacha, Indian Institute of Human Settlements

· Changes to households and the relationships within them

Nitya Rao, University of East Anglia

· People’s changing aspirations

Chandni Singh, Indian Institute of Human Settlements

· The gendered challenges of food security

Amadou Sidibe, ICRISAT