Uganda’s agricultural sector is the main source of livelihood in Uganda, employing 72 percent of the working population of which women constitute 77 percent. This implies that an effective strategy to enhance gender equality is to enhance productivity of the agriculture sector by climate proofing it and ensuring incomes can be maximized through value addition especially at the informal levels. This will then have a direct knock-on effect on increasing potential earning to the majority women in the sector. In addition, a disaggregation of gender allows for the identification of gender specific salient features and key success factor critical for effective uptake of climate action solutions of Ecosystems Based Adaptation approaches (EBA) applicable in agriculture and realization of beneficial impacts for the different genders.

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