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  How to insure unqualified or uninterested customers? Ask insurance supervisors in Belize and Ghana! In a world of greater unpredictability and climate impacts, insurance can be a challenging product to deploy. Forward-thinking regulators, policymakers, and supervisors are changing their tactics, ensuring insurance can be a tool for inclusion. In a recent event bringing together alumni from Women’s World Banking’s…

This chapter attempts to explore the extent to which climate change vulnerabilities exacerbate gender disparities and how the application of gender-responsive budgeting tools can help mitigate such inequalities. The rationale for focusing more on these variables is based on the notion that gender analysis helps governments and organisations’ understanding of vulnerabilities and climate change implications, responses in various contexts, climate…

In semi-arid Northern Ghana, smallholder farmers face food insecurity and financial risk due to climate change. In response, the Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) model, a community-led microfinance model, has emerged as a promising finance and climate resilience strategy. VSLAs offer savings, loans, and other financial services to help smallholder farmers cope with climate risks. In northern Ghana, where…

The Gender Action Plan to support implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai GAP) has been launched and is available now. The Sendai GAP aims to accelerate progress towards the mutually reinforcing goals of gender equality and the prevention and reduction of disaster risk by ensuring DRR efforts are gender-responsive, and promote and support women’s empowerment…

For over a decade, WFP has been supporting climate risk insurance as an important piece of the strategy for building women’s economic empowerment. WFP presents its experience from the field spotlighting women who have harnessed WFP’s climate risk insurance and related interventions to strengthen their resilience and ensure food security for their households. The fast recovery and protection from loss…