Lisu women in Northern Thailand prepare food to celebrate the Lisu new year in Tha Ton, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand in 2023. On that day, a research team from USAID Mekong for the Future and partner organizations was travelling to research the impact of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and migration. Representatives from the local communities invited the team to join the celebration of the Lisu new year. During the occasion, the community gets together wearing Lisu’s traditional clothes, like the ones in the picture, and performing Lisu’s traditional dances and songs. USAID Mekong for the Future partners with Indigenous civil society organizations and ASEAN. The partnership is developing guidelines to mainstream gender equality and social inclusion in climate action planning in the ASEAN region. The Lisu people are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group who inhabit mountainous regions of Myanmar, southwest China, Thailand, and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.