Initiative:

Gender Equality

Research activities: Enabling gender-responsive social protection

Social protection systems – including national programs targeting cash and food transfers to the poor – reach billions of resource-poor women globally. These programs have great potential to support women in mitigating the effects of climate change, along with addressing the root causes of vulnerability including limited resources, livelihoods and empowerment. Yet social protection is rarely sufficiently gender-responsive or designed with a climate lens. Work with stakeholders, initially in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Mali, is testing how social protection and complementary programs can support women in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate and building resilience, to reduce gender inequality in food security, nutrition, livelihoods and empowerment.

 

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