Coyuca de Benitez is a medium sized city on the Mexico's Pacific coast. A research team worked with residents to identify climate-related risks and vulnerabilities in the Coyuca Lagoon Urban Area. Residents were asked to map their household and community assets and the impacts of severe rainfall, flooding and sea level rise on these. The documentation revealed that women and men were affected differently by the extreme weather events - depending on their hygiene needs, household roles and roles in the labourforce. The project partners also found out that the community efforts before, during and after an extreme weather event are taken almost in isolation of local government. Rather, residents adopt a self-help approach. The project objective was therefore to bring together all local stakeholders and to address climate risks, local governance challenges and gender inequalities in a single integrated approach.

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