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This paper aims to understand how policy change for women's rights occurs, and what factors and conditions facilitate non-state actors' influence over policy processes. It argues that policy change is a complex and iterative process, and explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against gender equality policy change, with a particular focus on women's movements. The paper provides insights on how women interact with other actors and how they articulate their claims to effectively influence the policy process. It also explores why certain domains of women's rights remain at the margins of political agendas, while others receive more attention. The analysis is based on a comparative research of women's claims making processes in three Asian countries (China, India and Indonesia) and on three different issues: violence against women, domestic workers' labour rights, and unpaid care work. The paper sets out the rationale, aims and theoretical framework of the research, and discusses the key insights. ; Prepared for the UNRISD project on: When and Why Do States Respond to Women's Claims? Understanding Gender-Egalitarian Policy Change in Asia

Fishers on the move : Changing livelihoods, gendered entanglements and well-being / Ragnhild Lund -- Migration for capital accumulation : Changing class dynamics among small-scale fishers on the Coromandel Coast, Tamil Nadu / Nitya Rao and R. Manimohan -- Adapting to diminishing fish resources in Cambodia : Fisheries on the shoulders of women and migrating adult children in fishing communities / Kyoko Kusakabe and Prak Sereyvath -- Seasonal migration, resource access, contestation and conflict among fishers on the west and east coasts of Sri Lanka / Nadine Vanniasinkam, Mohamed Faslan, and Nireka Weeratunge -- Female headship and exclusion from small-scale fishing in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka / Ragnhild Lund and Fazeeha Azmi -- To migrate or not : Social well-being and gendered household decision-making in fishing communities on the west and east coasts of Sri Lanka / Nireka Weeratunge, Ramani Gunatilaka, Nadine Vanniasinkam, Mohamed Faslan, Dilanthi Koralagama, and Nirmi Vitarana -- Fishing in distant waters : Issues of identity and well-being amongst migrant fishers on the west coast of Tamil Nadu / Nitya Rao and C.M. Pratheepa -- Immobility of ethnic Vietnamese fishers and their adaptation strategy in Chhnok Tru village, Chhnok Tru Commune, Cambodia / Raksa Sok and Kyoko Kusakabe -- Mobility in contexts of precarity : Kin solidarity and migrant networks among small-scale fishers in coastal Tamil Nadu / Nitya Rao, R. Manimohan and C.M. Pratheepa -- Mobilizing for and against migration : Gendered networks, cooperation and collective action in fishing communities on the west and east coasts of Sri Lanka / Nirmi Vitarana, Dilanthi Koralagama, Nireka Weeratunge, and Ramani Gunatilaka -- Gender and power struggle in community fisheries in Cambodia : Creating space for women's leadership / Kyoko Kusakabe, Prak Sereyvath, Lam Doeurn, and Yem Sivon -- Livelihoods, migration and mobility : The distribution of consumption expenditure in fishing communities in Cambodia, India and Sri Lanka / Ramani Gunatilaka -- Small-scale fishers, mobility, and the politics of well-being in rapidly changing Asia / Ragnhild Lund.

"This book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability.
The book analyzes how changes in rainfall patterns, floods, droughts, heatwaves and landslides affect those who are directly dependent on the agrarian economy. It examines the socio-economic pressures, including the increase in women's work burdens both in production and reproduction on gender relations. It also examines coping mechanisms such as male migration and the formation of women's collectives which create space for agency and change in rigid social relations. The volume looks at perspectives from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal to present the nuances of gender relations across borders along with similarities and differences across geographical,socio-cultural and policy contexts.
This book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology, development, gender, economics, environmental studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for policymakers, NGOs and think tanks working in the areas of gender, climate change and development."