Gender Equality

Research activities: Co-designing and testing bundled innovations for women’s empowerment

Constraints to technology access, use and control vary by gender and intersect with other vulnerabilities due to factors such as limited access to resources, decision-making processes, services or information. Restrictive norms and hindering environments often limit uptake and empowerment of women as partners in designing, promoting and using climate smart solutions. This area of work contributes to filling that gap by providing evidence to understand the limited uptake of innovations by women and developing decision-support tools to guide the design and implementation of sociotechnical innovation bundles, paying particular attention to gender and social inclusion.

Read about the Initiative’s other focus areas:

• Promoting gender transformative approaches
• Enabling gender-responsive social protection
• Encouraging inclusive and responsive governance