The GESI priority area focuses on empowering those most affected by climate change, including women, girls, youth, Indigenous communities, people living with disabilities (PLWD), and other disadvantaged groups.
Feature
8th September 2025
Gender and social inclusion: Time to stop outsourcing?
Gender and social inclusion aren’t optional; they’re the backbone of lasting change. Yet, too often this work is outsourced to external parties. The following blog, by Patricia Bamanyaki and Mairi Dupar, explores how to overcome this challenge. It forms part of a series sharing insights from CDKN’s recent Locally led adaptation learning and reflection workshop.
Resource
30th June 2025
Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) training manual for Ethiopian practitioners
This Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) training manual is a key resource for the Ministry of Planning and Development of Ethiopia and its partner institutions. It provides guidance to GESI experts (and facilitators) on how to plan, prepare for, and conduct training on GESI integration in the design and implementation of development and climate change projects.
Feature
2nd April 2025
What does a just transition mean for Africa?
The concept of a just transition is not new and has been around since the 1980s when it was used by Trade Unions to draw attention to the social effects of environmental measures (United Nations, 2023). In the context of climate change, it aims to ensure that no one is left behind, or excluded, in the transition to environmentally sustainable and low-carbon economies.
News
20th February 2025
CDKN forms new partnership to address gender equity and land rights for climate resilience in East and Southern Africa
CDKN has joined the International Land Coalition Africa to co-lead a project titled, Advancing Gender Equity and Land Rights through Knowledge Brokering for Ecosystem-Based Adaptation in Southern Africa. They have partnered with the Micaia Foundation, the Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children Welfare, Youth4CAN and the University of Botswana.
The Senegal country programme works to strengthen the resilience of local communities by integrating gender equality and social inclusion into policies and practices and enhancing and amplifying local knowledge.
Resource
6th December 2024
‘Gender lens’: the approach that low-carbon businesses cannot do without
Gender lens approaches are business models, management and operations that promote the economic empowerment of women. New evidence from the Gender Equality in a Low Carbon World (GLOW) programme makes the case that climate-smart businesses require a gender lens approach to meet their full potential for economic sustainability and positive climate impact.
Feature
7th November 2024
Advancing equitable ecosystem-based adaptation work: Reflections from COP16
Following a busy COP16, CDKN’s Thematic Leads on Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Finance reflect on what they see as the key outcomes, concerns and next steps for advancing more equitable ecosystem-based adaptation work from local to global levels.
Resource
30th October 2024
Harnessing ecosystem-based adaptation to drive progress towards global targets
Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (FEBA), a collaborative network of over 100 organisations dedicated to advancing the awareness and uptake of ecosystem-based approaches in global adaptation and resilience efforts, has launched a pivotal report at COP26 in Cali, Colombia.
Empowering women in just transitions: Insights from the GLOW programme
This report, available in English, French and Spanish, summarises learning from the Gender Equality in a Low Carbon World (GLOW) programme on common challenges and promising solutions for advancing women’s empowerment in low-carbon transitions.
Event
13th September 2024
GLOW at New York Climate Week 2024
As part of New York Climate Week, the GLOW programme is hosting an event on women’s economic empowerment for unlocking just transitions. Join us in-person or online on Monday 23rd September at 11-12.30 EDT.
The Namibia programme aims to improve access to climate finance for locally-led adaptation, and amplify the impact of Namibian researchers as they contribute to climate policy and global scientific data that forms the basis for climate action in Africa.
