Women are not just victims of climate change – they are powerful agents of change! ✨ 💪 Our partners at the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) have launched a series of five briefs that challenge traditional narratives and highlight inspiring stories from women participating in donor-supported programmes worldwide. Two success stories featured include projects by GIZ Bangladesh and GIZ Nigeria & ECOWAS, showing how women’s empowerment is key to a sustainable future: In Bangladesh, community leader Rokeya Rahman secured access to safe drinking water 💧 for thousands in informal urban settlements. In Nigeria, women farmer collectives are improving food security 🌾 and social cohesion through climate-smart practices and gender equity advocacy. Learn more by checking out the briefs on the DCED website! 👇 #WomenEmpowerment #ClimateAction #SustainableDevelopment
There is a dominant narrative that portrays women as victims of climate change. We have just published a series of five briefs that challenge this, instead portraying women as active agents of change; women are crucial to climate solutions as they play key roles in community, regional and national contexts. The briefs showcase inspiring stories of women participating in donor supported programs to combat climate change in different contexts (#Senegal, #Bangladesh, #Kenya, #Nepal, #Comoros Islands, and more), unearthing a people-centred angle to the story of climate resilience and adaptation. Developed in a collaboration between the DCED's Women's Economic Empowerment Working Group and The Canopy Lab, briefs 1 to 4 each highlight a different theme under the umbrella of WEE and climate change (renewable energy, climate advocacy, natural resource management, and food systems). Brief 5 presents donor good practices that emerged from the four preceding briefs, in the hope of inspiring donors to advance women‘s economic empowerment to address climate change. It shows the power that lies in supporting women-led initiatives. ➡ Check out the briefs on the DCED website and watch this space for details of an upcoming webinar where you can learn more ----> https://lnkd.in/e9yB_tnt Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, IFC - International Finance Corporation, Sida, International Labour Organization, Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada, UNDP ; Gisela Strand Clara García Parra Jessica Rust-Smith Kerry Max Sara Andersson Valentina Verze Fabian Werner Franziska Deininger Ciara Daniels #InternationalDevelopment #ClimateAction #WEE #Inclusion #ClimateChange #Empowerment