Women-Led Adaptation Planning for Greener Roads

Women travel, work, and care for families along the roads that serve their communities, yet their needs rarely shape how roads are designed or maintained. How can adaptation planning give women a leading role in making roads more climate-resilient?

The session will discuss adaptation plans developed with inputs from women and piloted on two roads in Bangladesh, and introduce a manual for scaling Women's Adaptation Labs, equipping practitioners across Asia and the Pacific to integrate inclusive, climate-resilient approaches into road investments.

Across Southeast Asia, roads face rising risks of floods, storms, and heat, and women still shoulder much of the daily travel for care, water, and farming. The approach offers a practical way for governments and development partners in the region to plan road investments that protect both people and infrastructure.

The session is part of the Green Roads Webinar Series, which examines the nature-positive benefits of green roads, highlighting their cross-cutting contributions to decarbonization, climate resilience, water management, biodiversity, disaster risk reduction, construction materials, and inclusive growth.