The Toolbox aims to support programme designers and field practitioners in doing gender sensitive and socially inclusive research.

The Toolbox assumes that data should be sex-disaggregated (when relevant) to recognise women as individual farmers, the type and level of social-differentiation used should be based on the objective of the study and the climate change development program that it informs, gender and social inclusion should be integrated from the research and programme design phase rather than relying on mainstreaming at a later point, building capacity in gender and social analysis is important for both upstream and downstream practitioners in an organisation and that a participatory approach to research can support jointly-produced knowledge that reflects more accurately the different needs, challenges and opportunities for women, men and vulnerable groups.