Masterclass : A rights-based approach to gender and climate change (Cambodia)

This Masterclass document was adapted from the UN Women Bangladesh Masterclass titled, ‘Rights-based approach to gender and climate change’ in Bangladesh which was developed by Irene Dankleman in cooperation with UN Women Bangladesh and the UN Women Regional Office for Asia Pacific. The Masterclass was delivered in Tangail, Bangladesh between 14—18 June 2014.

This document was then adapted to the Cambodian context and has also benefitted from MoWA/UNDP Cambodia’s (2015) ‘Standardized Guideline for Mainstreaming Gender and Climate Change in Sectoral Ministries’ Planning Implementation and Budgeting’and WOCAN’s training manual on ‘Integrating Gender in Planning and several other existing gender and climate change-related training manuals.

This Masterclass document was created by UN Women for the purpose of capacity building and training in the area of gender and climate change. The Manual is intended to guide the participants step-by-step through the Masterclass, following its overall agenda. The Manual was first piloted from 25 - 29 June 2018 in Cambodia with the Ministry of Environment’s REDD+ team at their request. The Manual has been updated since then based on the discussions and outcomes of the Masterclass, as well as consultation with UN Environment project partners, and is now in a final version so that it can inform other stakeholders, and be rolled out to support work on gender and climate change in Cambodia.