Guide Aims to Help Donors to Push Funds to Women Thomson Reuters Foundation
go to original March 25, 2015

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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.

“I think the big thinkers and the governments are aware of the dangers, but what they don’t seem to know is what needs to be done to reverse the trend,” Emilienne De Leon Aulina, the executive director of the Mexico-based International Network of Women’s Funds (INWF) said in a telephone interview.

Terry Odendahl executive director and CEO of Global Greengrants Fund (GGF), a US-based non-governmental organization that specialises in small grants of up to $5,000 for environmental projects, said that situation was clear during last December’s UN climate negotiations in Peru.

“There was a lot of rhetoric, but when it came to effective action on gender issues, there was back-sliding,” she said.

To help change that, the GGF, INWF and Alliance of Funds have launched a research guide that aims to help donors effectively fund gender-sensitive projects.

“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 per cent of all global grants address climate change and women’s rights together.

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