In Uganda, women make up a large part of the country’s agricultural workforce, yet the importance of their role remains largely unrecognized. Their voices and concerns as farmers are scarcely heard at the national and global levels. The result is a disproportionate mismatch between rural women’s voices and decision-making roles and their enormous contribution to rural climate change action.

“Women’s Empowerment for Resilience and Adaptation Against Climate Change” has formed an association of women-led groups that collect individual-savings of at least USD 1 once a week to generate a pool of funds, from which women borrow and invest into income-generating activities that address climate change. This initiative also empowers women undertake land planning, agro-forestry and soil conservation practices and use energy saving stoves.

By integrating gender into agriculture-related climate change activities and policy, this project enables rural women to become important agents of change and innovators.

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