Programme
Climate Action & Resilience
Community-level climate adaptation, resilience planning and access to climate finance, designed and led by the women who carry the burden of climate shocks.
Programme status: In design
Women in low- and moderate-income communities are the first to absorb a climate shock and the last to be consulted on the response. They manage household water, food and energy directly, which means a flood, a failed harvest or a heatwave lands on them first - and yet they are largely absent from the rooms where adaptation is planned and financed.
This pillar closes that distance. It starts from what a community already knows about its own risk, builds that knowledge into an adaptation plan the community owns, and then equips the women leading it to reach the finance that makes the plan real.
What this programme does
- Community climate vulnerability and adaptation assessments
- Household and neighbourhood resilience planning
- Climate finance literacy for women-led community organizations
- Preparing communities to access adaptation and carbon-market funding
How we will measure it
USAW is pre-launch, so these indicators have no baseline yet. Baselines will be set during Phase 1 research and reported annually, disaggregated by sex and age.
- Women and youth completing climate adaptation training, disaggregated by age
- Community adaptation plans developed and adopted
- Value of climate finance accessed by supported groups