Climate action to close the gender gap in Nepal

Climate change disproportionally affects women and girls. It magnifies inequalities. Poor women whose livelihoods depend on agriculture and natural resources are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as extreme weather events, droughts, floods and temperature rise. The impacts of climate change have a ripple effect on their lives, jeopardising food security, income and well-being.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are scaling up investments in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector to empower women as equal advocates for climate solutions. Gender action is interwoven into FAO’s entire GCF project portfolio – valued at USD 937.7 million – to ensure that women and girls have a leading role to play as change-makers in the transition towards a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.

Here is an example of how an FAO-led GCF project in Nepal – with USD 47.3 million in climate investments – is giving women a voice in climate change adaptation and mitigation action on the ground.

Empowering women for climate resilience in Nepal

Around 3.2 million women and men in Nepal’s Churia region depend on local natural resources for food, water and energy, but the area is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as extreme rainfall and flash flooding. The river and forest ecosystems are also under pressure because of unsustainable land use, deforestation and forest degradation.

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