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Making Rural Women More Equipped to Combat Climate Change
Key Strategies
1. 95 percent of the respondents agreed with the suggestion by one of the previous respondents to enlighten people through education and organize their capacity building programmes.
– Climate Literacy Programs: Develop courses of climate adaptation, farming and usage of resources.
– Skill Development: Give women’s skills in renewable energy technology for instance, the operations of solar panels, biogas systems etc.
– Example: Some organizations like Barefoot College educate rural women as solar engineers.
2. Access to Resources –
a. Land Rights: For legal recognition of women’s right in access to land so as to practice organic farming and productive agriculture.
b. Credit and Microfinance: Increase women’s economic power and extend climate-smart financial services for productive assets like water conservation structures or improved seeds.
3. Decision making is a multidimensional structure and has several stages: practical decision, evaluation-consideration of data or premises, judgment, persuasion, making a choice, commanding, operation, reflection, and determination.
Promote women’s participation in local government and in planning for climate change.
Example: In the formation of the climate resilience committees at the village level, the above should women should also be included.
4. Technology and Innovation
Deliver climate adaptation solutions like Weather applications and Water conserving technologies that may afford to women farmers.
Start using efficient stoves that don’t depends on firewood to enable boost health as well as make effective the use of natural resources.
5. Building Up Communities
– Support women led co-operatives and self-help organizations in order to combat climate change. –
Personal exchanges of best practices concerning sustainability and preservation of resources.
6. Social Protection Programs
– Provide insurance products that would protect female farmers should unfavourable weather occur which negatively impacts crops.
Relief For Women by giving them support such as daycare help for their children where ever the women is.
7. Lobby and Advocacy Program
Through policy advocacy and campaigns then people and stakeholders are made aware about issues concerning for instance; gender and climate change.
Remind the men to participate in all house chores and agricultural activities in the house to lessen woman load.