Women’s Empowerment at the Frontline of Adaptation

Contributors and Reviewers

Ritu Verma – ICIMOD, Nepal (Study design) Arun Shrestha and Sagar Bajracharya – ICIMOD, Nepal (contribution to Chapter 3) Nand Kishor Agrawal, Manohara Khadka, Golam Rasul, Bishnu Dhungana, Mamata Shrestha, and Utsav Maden – ICIMOD, Nepal Laxmi Bhatta and Krisha Shrestha – ICIMOD, Nepal (Fieldwork support) Jeannette Gurung – Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) Kishor Pradhan – Development Knowledge Management and Innovation Services Pvt. Ltd (DeKMIS), Nepal (data collection, analysis and presentation and contribution to Chapter 2) Bjorn Alfthan – GRID-Arendal, Norway (Initial design and concept of the report)

Acknowledgements

This publication is the outcome of an extensive report written by WOCAN for ICIMOD as part of the scoping study on ‘Gender, Natural Resource Management and Climate Change in the Context of Inclusive and Equitable Sustainable Mountain Development in Nepal’ under HICAP. HICAP is implemented jointly by ICIMOD, the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO), and GRID-Arendal, in collaboration with local partners, and funded by the governments of Norway and Sweden. The authors would like to thank all the women and men from the remote villages of Nepal who participated in the fieldwork for this study as well as grassroots women leaders, members of NGOs and INGOs, staff of government departments, and independent researchers for their valuable time and inputs. Without their support this publication would not be possible.

vii