Part of a regional study titled Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean this case study focuses on gender, climate change and disaster risk reduction in Suriname. It examines the impact of climate change on agriculture and housing in two tribal communities: one Maroon and one indigenous.

The aim is to increase awareness of the differential impact of the 2006 floods on men and on women in the selected communities and specifically to assess how agriculture and housing were affected. The case studies were undertaken in June 2008, and assessed differential impacts on men and women in both villages.