WOCAN is thrilled to announce that it has received a grant for Assessing the Landscape: Climate Adaptation, Women’s Organizations & Enterprises from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to design an innovative model in gender-responsive climate adaptation and resilience.
The intended outcome of this planning grant is the development of a Strategy Implementation Framework to provide a clear path for rural women’s organizations and enterprises to meet their needs for climate adaptation. Activities funded by this planning grant will produce the ‘proof of concept’ for the model to use a result-based financing and market-based approach using the W+ Standard to provide rural women’s organizations and enterprises with revenue and technical assistance to support climate adaptation initiatives. We will be posting more details about this work and the diverse set of experts engaged in the team from around the globe soon, stay tuned!