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Globally climate change is occurring at an alarming rate, Ethiopia has been identified as one of the most vulnerable countries to this change. The impact of climate change is vary by gender. Hence, this study is investigate the impact of climate change on agricultural production, water resource, and assesses the perception of WHHs and determinants of climate change adaptation strategies applied by WHHs to reduce the impact of climate change. The study employed multi-stage random sampling procedure to select study area as well as sample respondents. Primary data have been collected from 168 women sample respondents using interview schedule, Focus Group Discussions, Key Informants Interviews, and observation methods. Descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regression were used to analyze the quantitative data. While narration and triangulation techniques were used to analyze the qualitative data. The study result indicated that 90.5% of the respondents believed that temperature was increased and similarly 92.3% witnessed that rainfall decreased in their village. The multinomial logistic model result on climate change adaption strategies revealed that level of education, frequency of extension visit, farm size, distance to nearest road, TTLU, participation in any extension service trainings on climate change, and have informed/ perceived- about climate change were the key factors to influence women farmers to choose of adaption strategies significantly at p<10%. As climate change is the main problem, which is beyond the capacity of WHHs, it is quite pertinent to capacitate WHHs government and any developmental organization should play meaningful roles to create opportunities that helped them to engage in those activities that are less sensitive to climate change.