Enhancing Women-focused Investments in Climate and Disaster Resilience

Abstract

This report focuses on women as agents of change for resilient development, and argues for more investments in enhancing their capacities. Women-focused investments in climate and disaster resilience require tackling multiple vulnerabilities and discriminations that women and girls face in the near and longer term. Such investments should be undertaken in all sectors—agriculture and livelihoods, urban, energy, water resources, finance, and social protection—and require political will, technical capacity, wide-ranging partnerships, and longer-term commitment.