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Investments should seek to strengthen women’s capacities to anticipate, absorb, and adapt to the impacts of natural hazards and climate change and contribute to sustainable development.
Infrastructure that provides access to clean water and adequate sanitation frees women and girls from health and safety risks.
Upskilling through TVET and STEM education can help prepare female workers for the automation of apparel manufacturing in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
Empowering women to take greater control over their resources would give them the tools for lifelong change.
Putting resources toward specialized training, mentoring and confidence building is a successful formula for giving greater voice to women in the countryside.
Empowered women in Bangladesh are taking the lead in bringing much needed urban improvements.
A package of economic, social, legal, and institutional measures helps provide equal opportunity to minority and low-caste women in Nepal.
Gender-targeted strategies are needed to improve health care for women under India’s universal medical insurance program.
A wide range of new solutions is able to avoid, reduce, collect, recycle, and clean up plastic waste.