This toolkit aims to sensitise policy makers and administrators in identifying and analysing socio-economic and political vulnerabilities faced by women in energy, security, health, agriculture, industry, urban development and transport. The toolkit indicates how to provide women with tools that can be used to both enhance gender perspective in planning and make it work through programmes and schemes.

It is hoped that this tool kit will go a long way in addressing socio-economic impacts of climate change at the local level, where gender-specific disparities are most intense. It will help create awareness on mainstreaming gender in the implementation of State Action Plan on Climate Change.

Prakash Javadekar, Minister of State Environment, Forest and Climate Change

This training manual is designed for rural women and rural elected women leaders in South Asia to enhance their capacities and skills required to deliver 1.5 days training programme on 'Gender, Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security' at the grassroots level. The manual, supported by CGIAR-Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme (http://ccafs.cgiar.org/), flags impact of climate change on local agriculture, the gender impacts of climate change on women farmers and what local women and elected women leaders can do.