Overview of IFPRI projects, research questions, and conceptual framework (Elizabeth Bryan) Webcast of full recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd5uw8llltv0vrv/2016-01-14%2010.01%20Gender%20and%20Climate%20Change.mp4?dl=0

1. Gender and Climate Change
Gender and Resilience Working Group Webinar Series
• Overview of IFPRI projects, research questions and
conceptual framework
Elizabeth Bryan, IFPRI (e.bryan@cgiar.org)
• Highlights from research in sub-Saharan Africa
Patti Kristjanson, ICRAF
• Highlights from research in Bangladesh
Agnes Quisumbing, IFPRI

2. Motivation: Lots of Myths but Little
Evidence
• Claims are often made without supporting evidence
such as:
“Women provide 60-80% of agricultural labor in SSA”
“Women are disproportionally effected by climate
change”
• Little evidence on the gender dimensions of climate
change
o Are men and women differentially affected by climate
change?
o Are there gender differences in adaptive capacity?
o Are there gender differences in priorities, needs, and
preferences for adaptation

3. Project: Enhancing Women’s Assets to
Manage Risk under Climate Change:
Potential for Group-Based Approaches
• 3 – year project from 03/2011-03/2014 funded by BMZ
• 4 country case studies and global reviews: Bangladesh,
Ethiopia, Kenya and Mali
• Partners: DATA, Bangladesh; U. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;
KARI now KALRO), Kenya; IER/IPA, Mali; ZEF, Germany
• Goals:
– Explore gender-differentiated impacts of climate change
and shocks
– Assess the potential for collective/group-based approaches
to adaptation
• Outputs: papers, briefs, tools

4. An Integrated Framework on Gender
and Climate Change

5. Project: Increasing Women’s Resilience
to Confront Climate Change
• 3-years: 09/2012-09/2015 funded by CCAFS
• 6 sites in 4 countries: Bangladesh, Kenya, Senegal,
and Uganda
• Partners: ILRI, IITA, DATA, ISRA, ICRAF, CIAT
• Goals:
– Assess gender-differentiated perceptions of climate
change and shocks
– Assess gender-differentiated preferences, need and
priorities for adaptation
– Assess gender differences in the capacity to adapt
particularly through barriers to accessing information
• Outputs: gender-disaggregated data, papers,
briefs

6. Ringler, C., A. Quisumbing, E. Bryan, and R. Meinzen-Dick. (Eds.) 2014. Enhancing Women’s Assets to Manage Risk Under Climate Change:
Potential for Group-Based Approaches. IFPRI Policy Note Series.
http://ebrary.ifpri.org/utils/getfile/collection/p15738coll2/id/128599/filename/128810.pdf
Bryan, E. and J. Behrman. 2013. Community-based adaptation to climate change: a theoretical framework, overview of key issues and
discussion of gender differentiated priorities and participation. CAPRi Working Paper, 109.
http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15738coll2/id/127540
Goh, A.H.X. 2012. A literature review of the gender-differentiated impacts of climate change on women’s and men’s assets and well-being in
developing countries. CAPRi Working Paper, 106. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/127247
Ragasa, C., Y. Sun, E. Bryan, C. Abate, A. Alemu and M. Namori Keita. 2013. Organizational and institutional issues in climate change adaptation
and risk management. Insights from practitioners’ survey in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and Mali. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1279. Washington DC:
IFPRI. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/127758
Davis, P, and S. Ali. 2013. Exploring local perceptions of climate-change impact and adaptation in rural Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1322.
Washington DC: IFPRI. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/128014
Aberman, N.L., R. Birner, E. Haglund, M. Ngigi, S. Ali, B. Okoba, D. Koné, and T. Alemu. 2014. Understanding the policy landscape for climate
change adaptation: a cross-country comparison using the Net-Map method. IFPRI Discussion Paper, 1408. Washington DC: IFPRI.
http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/128928
Aberman, N.L., S. Ali, J. Behrman, E. Bryan, P. Davis, A. Donnelly, V. Gathaara, D. Kone, T. Nganga, J. Ngugi, B. Okoba, and C. Roncoli. 2014.
Climate change adaptation, assets and group-based approaches: gendered perceptions from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali and Kenya. IFPRI
Discussion Paper, 1412. Washington DC: IFPRI. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/128950
Dillon, A. and J. Gill. 2014. Gender, Farm Assets, and the Role of Climate Variability on Production Possibilities.
http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/128765
Quisumbing, A.R. and N. Kumar. 2014. Land rights knowledge and conservation in rural Ethiopia: Mind the gender gap. IFPRI Discussion Paper
1386. Washington DC: IFPRI. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/128480
Quisumbing, A., N. Kumar, and J. Behrman. 2014. Do Shocks Affect Men’s and Women’s Assets Differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and
Uganda. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/124940
Rakib, M. and J. Matz. 2014. Impact of shocks on gender differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper, 1356.
Washington, DC: IFPRI. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/128191
Beaman, L. and A. Dillon. 2014. Diffusion of Agricultural Technologies within Social Networks: Evidence from Composting in Mali.
http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/128759
Twyman et al 2014. Adaptation Actions in Africa: Evidence that Gender Matters. CCAFS Working Paper, 83.
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/51391/WP83.pdf
Bernier et al. 2015. Gender and Institutional Aspects of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices: Evidence from Kenya. CCAFS Working Paper, 79.
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/65680/Gender%20and%20Institutions%20Working%20Paper%2079.pdf
Delavallade et al. 2015. Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings: Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in
West Africa. IFPRI Discussion Paper, 1426. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/129071
Clarke, D.J. and N. Kumar. 2015. Microinsurance Decisions: Gendered Evidence from rural Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1465.
http://www.ifpri.org/publication/microinsurance-decisions-gendered-evidence-rural-bangladesh-0
Resources: Publications

7. Resources: Briefs, Websites & toolkits
• Briefs: Enhancing Women’s Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change:
Potential for Group-Based Approaches:
http://www.ifpri.org/publication/enhancing-women%E2%80%99s-assets-
manage-risk-under-climate-change-potential-group-based
• Brief: Implications of gender-focused research in Senegal for farmer's
adaption to climate change
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/implications-gender-focused-research-
senegal-farmers-adaption-climate-change
• Brief: Learning about adaptation possibilities by talking to Kenyan female
and male farmers separately https://www.ifpri.org/publication/learning-
about-adaptation-possibilities-talking-kenyan-female-and-male-farmers
• Brief: Gender and climate change adaptation in Uganda: Insights from
Rakai https://www.ifpri.org/publication/gender-and-climate-change-
adaptation-uganda-insights-rakai
• Project website: http://womenandclimate.ifpri.info/
• Project website: http://climatechange.ifpri.info/womens-resilience-to-
climate-change/
• Blog piece on Why rural women are integral in the upcoming climate
change negotiations http://www.ifpri.org/blog/un-international-day-rural-
women
• Blog piece on Why paying attention to gender matters for climate change
adaptation https://www.ifpri.org/blog/why-paying-attention-gender-
matters-climate-change-adaptation
• Action-oriented research approaches beyond diagnostics from CCAFS--
http://ccafs.cgiar.org/research-highlight/new-toolbox-gender-and-
inclusion-climate-change-projects#.VH0xnIcg25B.
• Gender CC Toolkit:
http://womenandclimate.ifpri.info/files/2015/02/BMZ_Toolkit_Final.pdf