Making nature-based climate solutions in aquaculture in Southeast Asia monitoring more gender-responsive: what gets measured gets done

About this project

Aquaculture has the potential to be an effective climate solution that addresses environmental and social challenges, such as pollution, inequality, nutrition and livelihood security. It is critical that the development of nature-based climate solutions (NbCS), such as protection of habitat or expansion of carbon sinks like wetlands, empowers women and enhances their full access to equal opportunities through gender-transformative policies. Although women play a large role in fisheries and aquaculture in Asia, there is limited relevant sex-disaggregated and gender data. As a result, women’s engagement is not monitored and evaluated in rigorous ways and is likely to be shifting as both are undergoing transitions under economic, climate and social changes. The lack of data as well as a lack of holistic understanding of gender relations in aquaculture leads to serious gaps in monitoring and evaluation schemes that wish to include gender outcomes, including in NbCS aquaculture. This project will strengthen the design and usage of monitoring to ensure the integration of gender equity and social inclusion in nature-based climate solutions in aquaculture systems and projects. The monitoring will assess how women’s role in decision-making and policy processes for seaweed and rice fish farming in Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines can be strengthened, as women build their capacities to have a voice in value-chain and environmental decisions and to take advantage of broader policy…

Published by

International Development Research Centre · Other public sector

Countries

Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines

Sectors

Food security policy and administrative management

Focus

Gender equality · Main focusClimate adaptation · Main focus

Published by International Development Research Centre to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-301-2-110217-001.

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