Women's Resilience in the Lao People's Democratic Republic: How Laws and Policies Promote Gender Equality in Climate change and Disaster Risk Management
Client
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Duration
2018-2022
Our project team
Mary Picard
Robyn Layton
Type of work
Capacity development
Legal and regulatory frameworks
Research and analysis
Reports and editing
Stakeholder consultations
Key themes
Climate change adaptation and mitigation
Climate change
Disaster risk reduction (DRR)
Disaster risk management (DRM)
Gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI)
Gender mainstreaming
International law and policy
Women’s empowerment
Women’s resilience
About this project
This report was part of a wider Asia-Pacific regional project on Women’s Resilience to Disasters and Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific. It conducts a gender analysis of the national legal and policy frameworks of Lao People's Democratic Republic to determine whether laws, policies, and strategies consider gender inequalities as they relate to climate and disaster risk and contribute to strengthening women’s resilience.
The project included Dr Mary Picard, working with Justice Robyn Layton, who consulted on laws and policies to support women’s resilience to climate change and disasters in Asia and the Pacific (Fiji, Lao PDR, Mongolia and global). The wider project included two streams:
(2) National case studies in law and policy analysis and capacity building on gender analysis and gender mainstreaming in CC and DRM, including national reports and regional policy brief (with Robyn Layton): Fiji, Lao PDR, Mongolia.
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