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This brief highlights how climate change disproportionately affects women and girls due to existing gender inequalities. Social protection systems can enhance their resilience and promote gender equality. Key recommendations include collecting gender-disaggregated data, conducting gender-specific climate risk analyses, and fostering women’s leadership in climate resilience planning. Collaboration with civil society and local actors is essential to integrating gender-responsive approaches into social protection policies and strengthening women’s capacity to cope with climate challenges.

• Gender Equity
• Social Protection
• Humanitarian
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2024

This WOW Helpdesk query identifies potential economic opportunities for urban women and youth in the green-growth and low-carbon sectors of the economy in Mozambique. A desk review of literature on green growth and green jobs and skills for urban women and youth was complemented by key informant interviews in Mozambique. The evidence was presented and discussed at a consultation with representatives from FCDO and MUVA.

• Mozambique
• Gender Equity
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2021

This WOW Helpdesk query provides the findings of key issues around the economic empowerment of women, people with disabilities and other excluded groups. This rapid desk-based research will support interventions of the Rapid Response Facility (RRF) - drawing on what is publicly available from online searches. The findings show that there is very little published evidence around people with disabilities and the energy transition, but many points stated on WEE also apply to the economic empowerment of people with disabilities.

• Gender Equity
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2021

In this brief, the Nature Facility provides recommendations to FCDO in Uganda and DRC for programming and policy engagement priorities with joint conservation, development, and climate change objectives. Recommendations are in line with the requirements of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and the “nature for climate and people” pillar of the UK’s International Climate Finance (ICF) strategy.

• Uganda
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Nature Facility
• 2024

This paper provides pre-reading for an FCDO conference ‘Building women’s economic empowerment into climate transitions’ at Wilton Park on 18 to 20 March 2024. It forms a rapid review of existing work in this area, including existing evidence reviews and mixed-methods studies. The report is structured around the six conference sessions and was written to inform the session discussions for a range of participants from different technical and institutional backgrounds.

• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Gender Equity
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2023

This paper provides pre-reading for an FCDO conference ‘Building women’s economic empowerment into climate transitions’ at Wilton Park on 18 to 20 March 2024. It forms a rapid review of existing work in this area, including existing evidence reviews and mixed-methods studies. The report is structured around the six conference sessions and was written to inform the session discussions for a range of participants from different technical and institutional backgrounds.

• Gender Equity
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2024

The climate risk report for the Central and South Asia region is part of a series of standardised regional climate risk reports the Met Office is producing in collaboration with ODI. Understanding future climate risks depends on analysing both future climate conditions, and the socio-economic vulnerabilities exposed by those conditions.

• Uzbekistan
• Kazakhstan
• Turkmenistan
• Bangladesh
• Afghanistan
• Bhutan
• India
• Climate Finance
• Climate Science
• 2024

This report recommends investing in water-saving measures, traditional soil and water conservation techniques, agroforestry, livestock integration, and organic farming. It also suggests enhancing governance of land and natural resources, testing nature-based restoration in degraded areas, and building data infrastructure for climate-resilient agriculture.

• Morocco
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Nature Facility
• 2023

British High Commission Dar Es Salaam (BHC DSM) is looking to scale up programming on climate change whilst incorporating the empowerment of women and girls. This query is a selected portfolio review of four existing BHC DSM programmes which include, or are intended to include, an International Climate Finance (ICF) component to identify entry points for gender equality. It used an in-depth document review of four BHC DSM programmes and interviews with each programme team. For one programme, the implementor provided some written responses.

• Tanzania
• Finance and Insurance
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2024

This query provides an accessible review of the evidence to support efforts to strengthens gender considerations, women’s opportunities and economic empowerment within the FCDO and wider UK government response to acute food insecurity and famine prevention.

• Humanitarian
• Gender Equity
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2023