Building WOmen Smallholder Farmers' empowerment and adaptive capacities: a pathway to Enhancing women's Resilience to climate change in Uganda (WOSFER)

OUR VISION

1. Enhanced knowledge and skills in gender responsive climate smart agronomic practices, climate information and post-harvest innovations, value addition
2. Enhanced resilience to the effects of climate change shocks and other related hazards, house hold food security Increased women's farmers' social capital and physical resources (land, assets)
3. Improved women's power and agency, enhanced shared roles and responsibilities in the households
4. Changed social and gender norms and perceptions about gender equality and women's empowerment

MAIN PROJECT OBJECTIVE

1. To strengthen the empowerment and adaptive capacity of women smallholder farmers in the cattle corridor of Uganda using gender transformative approaches.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

1. To establish women smallholder farmers’ levels of empowerment and adaptive capacities to the effects of climate change.
2. To assess the social cultural gender norms, economic and political trade-offs and barriers to empowerment and climate adaptation by women smallholder farmers.
3. Design and test a mix of gender transformative climate change adaptation innovations that are effective in enhancing women smallholder farmers’ empowerment and resilience to the effects of climate change.
4. Advocate for policies and practices that enhance women smallholder empowerment and adaptive capacities to climate change shocks.