CBA Presentation at CARE's Gender & CBA Workshop, Aug. 2011

CBA contributes to CARE International's Gender & Community-Based Adaptation Learning Workshop

August 2011

CARE International organized a workshop under their Adaptation Learning Programme in Africa (ALP) framework.  The event was held on 22-25 August 2011 in Bolgatanga, Ghana.  45 participants from Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique and Niger shared knowledge and discussed experiences in gender-sensitive repsonses to climate change.  UNDP/GEF CBA was represented by UN Volunteers project partners from Morocco and Niger to share their field experience in gender mainstreaming and inclusion in the UNDP/GEF CBA projects, as well as learn from ALP colleagues’ experiences.  ALP is a five-year programme implemented in four Africa countiries:  Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and Niger.  It's goal is to empower the most vulnerable people in sub-Saharan Africa to adapt to climate change impacts and variability.  ALP is developing innovative and gender-integrated aproaches to CBA  where gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment are increasingly recognized as essential.