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Article

19 Mar 2015

Author:
Amantha Perera, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Guide encourages donors & private sector to fund more projects addressing climate impacts on women

Women, who regularly suffer more fatalities than men during disasters, still lack adequate safety measures despite growing awareness of the dangers they face, experts warn....“Most funders lack adequate programs or systems to support grassroots women and their climate change solutions. Men receive far greater resources for climate-related initiatives because they tend to wage larger-scale, more public efforts, whereas women’s advocacy is typically locally based and less visible, making it more difficult for funders to find and support,” the guide said. It noted that only 0.01 percent of all global grants address climate change and women’s rights together....One key area for progress is building linkages in the private sector, Aulina said.  “We see more and more corporations now taking serious note of environmental issues. We have to use that attention to build knowledge on how much of a disproportionate risk women carry” and to build gender sensitivity into programmes, she said.