Third Call for Proposals

Climate change worsens existing health issues for women, adolescent girls, and young people, including limited access to clean water, sanitation, food, healthcare, and education. It directly impacts sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender equality, and sustainable development, as outlined in the ICPD Programme of Action. Failure to uphold SRHR hinders women and girls' involvement in climate action and policy, limiting their education, livelihoods, and decision-making.

Shea trees grow naturally on 28 million hectares in traditional farming systems in Burkina Faso and Togo. The trees are integrated with crops on smallholder farms, creating an agroforestry landscape resilient to climate change. Indeed, every year, shea parklands in West Africa capture more than 1.5 million tons of CO₂. However, this ecosystem, which is key for climate change mitigation, is at risk.

Projections indicate Somalia faces a nearly 2°C increase in maximum daily temperatures, threatening crop productivity thresholds and livestock welfare even further. To cope with climate-related impacts on livelihood, communities adapt to mechanisms that are detrimental to the environment. An assessment by FAO’s SWALIM revealed that the causes of land degradation in Somalia include overgrazing, deforestation for fuelwood and charcoal production, and poor agronomic practices.

Studies have shown that attitudes and structural barriers due to different impairments make WWD more vulnerable to climate change, violence, and discrimination (Astbury and Walki, 2013). This is due to the myriad challenges faced by WWD such as lack of access to education, myths and cultural practices, high poverty levels, lack of power and finances, and poor access to information, among others, that are discriminatory and harmful to WWD.

Although a small contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, IGAD remains highly vulnerable to the projected impacts of climate change. Therefore, the pitfalls of climate change could add to the development and growth challenges that the IGAD region faces and exacerbate its vulnerability in the future. Climate change will particularly affect the poorest and most excluded segments of society, which already have the lowest capacity to respond to its effects.

This project focuses on addressing gender inequalities within the climate resilience sector in Malawi and Mozambique. The strategic change areas are structural and systemic changes in women’s leadership in climate resilience, and enhancing women and youth economic viability. It is a two-year project that builds on an ongoing initiative titled “Building Urban Climate Resilience in South-Eastern Africa.”

Ethiopia is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change impacts. The country’s economy is heavily dependent on rain-fed agriculture. The contribution of the agriculture sector to the national GDP is estimated to be 42%, and 85% of employment is in the agriculture sector, making the country particularly sensitive to climate change. Drought is the major cause of food insecurity and famine in many regions of Ethiopia, particularly in the arid and semi-arid parts of the country.

Eastern and Southern Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts of climate change, with two of the most affected countries and four out of the ten most affected countries globally in 2019. The extent of exposure and adaptive capacity varies both within and across communities, depending heavily on intersections of socio-economic status, socio-cultural norms, and access to resources.