This report highlights gender specific challenges relating to gender roles within the Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) Programme in Namibia. It outlines women’s involvement in the society and the current state of the women’s movement within the CBNRM Programme. The report presents opportunities for promoting gender equality relating to the above-mentioned area of intervention for the project entitled Empower to Adapt: Creating Climate-Change Resilient Livelihoods through Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Namibia that is planned to be submitted to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). It concludes with specific recommendations for the above project to mainstream implementation of gender related awareness and equality activities through the work of the Empower to Adapt Project.