Earlier my life was dull but now it’s full of colors,” Says Shahnaz Hanif a micro-entrepreneur from Multan and a beneficiary of the Norway-funded project ‘Empowered Women, Resilient Communities’ has expanded her business by learning digital marketing.
The EmPower: Women for Climate-Resilient Societies aims to strengthen gender equality and human rights in climate change and disaster risk actions in the Asia and the Pacific region.EmPower works at the nexus of gender equality, climate change and disaster risk reduction and women’s entrepreneurship in renewable energy.
EmPower works on 5 key pillars:
VOICE AND LEADERSHIP
Encourage women and marginalized groups to participate in climate decisions
DATA FOR DECISION-MAKING
Generate, analyse and use sex, age and diversity disaggregated data to inform climate and DRR policy
GENDER RESPONSIVE CLIMATE POLICIES
Transform climate, disaster risk reduction and energy policies and financing to be more gender and human rights responsive
RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS
Enable women to access and use renewable energy and, through it, economic resources for resilient livelihoods
REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT
Improve regional processes, platforms and build regional knowledge on climate change and disaster risk reduction to include gender and human rights
