On 26^th November 2015, the “Risk-based National Adaptation Plan” (Risk-NAP) Project’s core team including representatives from GIZ, Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP), and Department of Public Works & Town and Country Planning (DPT) brainstormed on how to mainstream gender aspects into Thailand’s NAP process.

Based on several studies, climate change affects men and women differently, both also responding differently to experienced impacts. In order to capture these differentiated impacts and responses, it is important to mainstream gender considerations into the NAP process. Indeed, mainstreaming such a topic into the NAP process could ensure equal participation in decision making and implementation, prevent further exacerbation of gender inequality, as well as contribute to more resilient communities.

This half-day workshop led to the recognition of the necessity to first undertake a stakeholder mapping analysis of people working on both, gender and climate change, as well as to incorporate gender into the scope of the Climate Change Risk Analysis (CCRA) and to identify the most vulnerable groups considering gender differences. These undertakings would in turn lay the groundwork for identifying specific adaptation measures that are also gender sensitive.