AWARD GENDER RESPONSIVE CLIMATE ADAPTATION IN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS COURSE

October 7-30, 2025

Course curriculum

1. Welcome to the Gender Responsive Climate Adaptation In Agriculture And Food Systems Course
2. An Overview of AWARD
3. AWARD's Strategic Approach for 2023–2027
4. Our Logo: An African Inspired Logo!
5. GETTING OUR TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZED 🚀!
6. AWARD Learning Community Technology Walkthrough
7. Getting Started With Zoom
8. VIEW - Participant Biographies
9. Course Program
10. Trainers Biographies
1. Overall Course Objectives
2. Course Schedule - Read and put in your agenda!
3. Teaching Methodology and Approach
1. Opening Ceremony
2. Learning Community Orientation: The Award Training Portal Guide
3. Video - AWARD Learning Community Technology Walkthrough
1. Let’s get started 🚀!Understanding the interconnectedness of Gender in Climate Change Adaptation for Sustainable Agrifood Systems
2. Session 1A: Overview of basic key gender and climate change adaptation concepts and related terms terms
3. Session 1A: Understanding Gender Diversity and Inclusion (GDI) and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) perspectives into Climate Adaptation interventions
4. Session 1A: A Gendered Analysis of Small-Scale Cocoa Production in Uganda
5. Session 1A: Pre - Session Resources
6. Session 1A: ASSSIGNMENT: CLICK ON THE YOUTUBE VIDEO & WATCH
7. Session 1A: ASSIGNMENT 2:
8. Zoom Recording
1. Let’s get started 🚀!: Enhancing Resilience – Gendered Pathways to Climate Adaptation
2. Session 1B: Inclusive Resilience: Exploring Gendered Dimensions of Climate Change.
3. Session 1B: The intersection of Gender, Power and Privilege in Shaping Climate Adaptation
4. Session 1B: Pre Reading Day 2 Case Study - Gender Production Cocoa-Chocolate Sourcing in Ghana and India
5. Session 1B: Day 2_A Gendered Analysis of Small-Scale Cocoa Production in Uganda
6. Session 1B: Further Reading
7. Session 1B: Reflection on Gender, Climate Justice and Transformative Pathways
8. Session 1B: Vulnerability and Climate Change
9. ZOOM RECORDING
1. Let’s get started 🚀!: Designing and Delivering Gender-Responsive Climate-Adaptation Projects: Introducing the Project Cycle
2. session 2A: Designing and Delivering Gender-Responsive Climate-Adaptation Projects: Introducing the Project Cycle
3. Seesion 2A: The Gender Integration Continuum
4. Session 2A: Handouts
5. Session 2A: Vulnerability and Climate Change
6. Session 2A: Assignment on Gender Integration Continuum of any Project of your choice
7. Zoom Recording
1. Let’s get started 🚀!: Vision to Design: Embedding Gender in Project Planning and Design
2. Session 2B: Vision to Design: Embedding Gender in Project Planning and Design
3. Session 2B: Gender-Responsive Theory of Change and Designing for Institutional change.
4. Session 2B: Handouts
1. Let’s get started on Week 3A 🚀!: From Plans to Impact: Budgeting and Resource Allocation for Gender-Responsive Climate Smart Agriculture
2. Session 3A: From Plans to Impact: Budgeting and Resource Allocation for Gender-Responsive Climate Smart Agriculture.
3. Session 3A: From Concept to Practice: Piloting Gender-Smart Agriculture Actions
4. Session 3A: Assignment
1. Let’s get started 🚀!: From Fields to Resilience: Implementing Gender Responsive Climate Smart Agriculture Projects
2. Session 3B: Engaging Men in Gender-Responsive Climate Adaptation Initiatives
3. Session 3B: Integrating Gender in National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
4. Session 3B: Handout Downloads
5. Session 3B: Webinar: Integrating Gender into the NAP Process
1. Let’s get started 🚀!: Gender Responsive Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in Climate-related project
2. Session 4A: Gender Responsive Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in climate related projects
3. Session 4A: Designing Gender Indicators, Collecting and Analyzing Sex Disaggregated Data in Climate-Related Projects
4. Session 4A: GENDER INDICATORS Handout
5. Session 4A: Assignment:
1. Let’s get started 🚀!: Sustainability, Scaling and Exit
2. Session 4B: Sustainability, Scaling, and Exit
3. Session 4b: Course Evaluation and Way forward (AWARD)

About this course

Free
61 lessons
4.5 hours of video content

Instructor(s)

AWARD Trainer Julie Ndwiga

AWARD Trainer Adeline Rwashana Muheebwa

Facilitator and Development Consultant Ms. Adeline Rwashana Muheebwa is a Development Management Practitioner with a background in Agricultural Economics. Adeline has over 20 years of experience in Gender and Agricultural development work. Adeline is a bronze medal winner for the First ever “Create and Cook with Tooke Flour” competition, which involved developing a nutritious product for the young and nutritionally deficient. Adeline is a Gender trainer for AWARD and has previously worked with organizations such as the EU, ASARECA, USAID, IFAD, ILO/IPEC, and Winrock International. Adeline is a consultant for IFAD projects and participates in the Design, supervision, and Evaluation of missions. Adeline recently participated in the Social Environmental and Climate Assessment Procedures (SECAP) study to identify interventions that can address social aspects and risks related to women, youth, indigenous peoples, community health and safety, and especially vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities. Adeline holds a Master of Science degree and Post Graduate Diploma in Development Management from the Milton Keynes in United Kingdom, a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics from Makerere University in Uganda and several trainings in Gender and Development work. She is a co-Principal Investigator on an IDRC CLARE project on “Building women smallholder farmers’ empowerment and adaptive capacities.