Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation Project- Documentary on Livelihood | March 2023

The Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation (GCA) Project is addressing the barriers related to low awareness of and access to climate-resilient livelihood practices, lack of technical and financial capacities, and limited adoption and scalability hindering the small-scale farmers, fishers, and agro-laborers to diversify  livelihoods and implement adaptive livelihood strategies. The project is ensuring that communities, especially women, adopt and implement climate-resilient livelihoods, value-chains/market linkages for these alternative, resilient livelihoods are strengthened to ensure their adoption, sustainability, and scale; and communities have knowledge and capacity to continue to monitor, safeguard and adapt livelihoods and livelihood strategies to evolving climate risks. 

 

The project facilitates the formation of peer-to-peer support groups (Women Livelihood Groups – WLGs) to empower women to identify, plan for, and implement climate-resilient livelihoods through awareness raising, skills development, knowledge transfer, and investments into livelihood assets. 

 

GoB resources through Ministry of Women and Children Affairs is directed towards enabling value-chain and market linkages development to spur adoption, sustainability, and scale of these alternative, resilient livelihoods. The project is building the capacities of beneficiaries to implement climate risk reduction strategies (including through improved last-mile dissemination of EWs) and continually adapt and safeguard their livelihoods and assets as climate risks evolve.

 

The project is, thereby, capacitating women to diversify to resilient livelihoods and implement adaptive livelihood strategies in face of worsening salinity. These investments are enabled by the time and cost savings and health co-benefits resulting from drinking water security promoted by the project.