Gender Dynamics and Climate Change in Rural Bolivia

Ashwill, Maximillian ; Blomqvist, Morten ; Salinas, Silvia ; Ugaz-Simonsen, Kira

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ABSENCE OF WOMEN;    ACCESS OF WOMEN;    ACCESS TO EXTERNAL RESOURCES;    ACCESS TO FOOD;    ACCESS TO JOBS;   

RP-ID  :  71736

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this report is to informpractitioners on gender dynamics in Bolivia as they relateto natural resource management and climate change. This isdone to provide new knowledge for mainstreaming gender intorural development projects. The aim is to go beyond generalgender assumptions and provide more detailed empiricalknowledge on differentiated gender roles and the relativeaccess of women and men to resources. The report willdemonstrate that women and men in rural Bolivia have manydifferent roles and opportunities, which are not equallydistributed. The paper will also show that these roles arechanging as a result of both general development trends andclimate change. Further, evidence demonstrates that womenand men experience vulnerability and adapt to climate changedifferently. As a result, rural development and adaptationstrategies should integrate the relative capacities of womenand men and respond to their particular needs. This willhelp avoid counterproductive out comes that widen gendergaps and allow for more sustainable, pro-poor ruraldevelopment. This report will begin by introducing themethodology and case study regions. It will then examine indetail the specific roles of women and men in rural Bolivia.Next it will look at the gendered access to and control overresources and how gender roles, access and control arechanging as a result of climate change. The report willfinish with some general conclusions and specificrecommendations for development practitioners in rural Bolivia.