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Workshop Highlights: Asia-Pacific Gender Community of Practice Annual Learning Workshop, Negombo, Sri Lanka, 24 - 26 September 2008

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(excerpted from report Forward)

This report is a product of the 2008 Gender Community of Practice learning Event, organized by the UNDP Regional Gender Team, focusing on 'Gender and Climate Change: Impact and Adapatation'.

The vulnerability of women to the effects of climate change is largely due to their dependence on natural resources, their responsibility for water and food procurement and their increased risk exposure during times of disasters and severe weather crises. IN response, UNDP has begun to set clear gender-specific goals and performance targets for integrating climate change impacts in its focus areas. UNDP is also actively promoting adaptation to climate change by supporting governments and stakeholders to analyze and identify gender-specific impacts and protection measures.

The annual workshop provided one of the first points of dialogue between experts on climate change and gender specialists and focal ponits from 14 UNDP country offices across the Asia-Pacific region. The value of the workshop lay in the sharing of experiences on the key dynamics that link gender and the environment, the existing challenges to mainstreaming gender within climate change projects, as weel as the opportunities for future work. This report consolidates such experiences, and is a by-product of the discussions and inputs provided by participants during the workshop.

To access the workshop report, click here.