ACCESS Sri Lanka

This project aims to enhance the gender-responsive resilience of farming households especially women-headed and their agri-food livelihoods to the impacts of climate change in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. Project activities include: (1) developing gender-responsive and sustainable land use and watershed management plans; (2) disseminating findings from a gender and poverty related barriers study at local and national levels; and (3) connecting vulnerable women and men to service providers to access resources to develop sustainable agribusinesses.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) strengthened sustainable land and watershed management mechanisms for climate adaptive farming used by climate vulnerable farmers especially women in the Welikanda and Rideemaliyadda divisions of Sri Lanka; (2) increased adoption of climate adaptive farming practices by vulnerable farmers especially women to climate adaptive farming risks in the Welikanda and Rideemaliyadda divisions of Sri Lanka; and (3) enhanced women’s agency in leadership decision making and collective action in reducing gender and poverty related barriers for climate adaptive farming practices in the Welikanda and Rideemaliyadda divisions of Sri Lanka.