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Gender Transformative Mechanism

Improving climate resilience and rural people’s wellbeing by promoting gender transformative results

IFAD’s Gender Transformative Mechanism (GTM) aims to equip over 20 million rural people across 20 countries with the information and innovations they need to adapt to climate change by 2030. Generously supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, it incentivises governments to achieve gender-transformative results in the agriculture sector at scale.

Why the GTM matters

Billions of rural people rely on small-scale farming for an income, but climate change and the degradation of natural resources threaten the ecosystems that they depend on. Despite being at the front lines of the climate crisis, smallholder farmers receive just 0.8 per cent of global climate finance.

And while women produce up to 80 per cent of the food in low- and middle-income countries,  deep-rooted gender-based discrimination means they have limited access to resources to build resilience to climate change.

A comprehensive approach that delivers climate finance to women farmers while changing deep-seated gender disparities is needed.

Facts

Four out of five people forced to leave their homes after a climate disaster are women.

Just 20 per cent of National Adaptation Plans have a dedicated budget for activities related to gender equality.

Just 4 per cent of Official Development Assistance is dedicated to programmes with gender equality as the main objective. 

Female-headed households experience higher income losses due to heat stress and floods compared to male-headed households.

More about the GTM

Projects

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India

Nav Tejaswini Maharashtra Rural Women's Enterprise Development Project

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Burkina Faso

Agricultural Value Chains Promotion Project (PAPFA) extension

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Ethiopia

Participatory Agriculture and Climate Transformation Programme

Stories and news

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Gender equality in rural areas essential to climate change adaptation, says IFAD President

Three new initiatives in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and India to support 1 million women.

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Satu Santala’s opening remarks at the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women

Understanding the gendered risks: Women as the central piece to the climate adaptation puzzle

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Women farmers are reeling from climate change. Leaders need to put them first

Rural women farmers might be the world’s most extraordinary unsung agents of change when it comes to climate resilience.

Donors

Contacts

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Gender equality in rural areas essential to climate change adaptation, says IFAD President
December 2023 - NEWS

In the face of escalating climate change impacts on vulnerable rural populations globally, Alvaro Lario, the President of IFAD, emphasized today that promoting gender equality in rural communities is essential to climate change adaptation, with women acting as powerful catalysts of change.

Satu Santala’s opening remarks at the CSW 66 side event “Understanding the gendered risks: Women as the central piece to the climate adaptation puzzle”
March 2022 - SPEECH