EMPODERAR A LAS MUJERES EN TRANSICIONES JUSTAS

The GLOW program demonstrates that gender equality and climate action are synergistic, arguing that women's leadership and participation are essential for the effectiveness and sustainability of low-carbon transitions. Through projects in the Global South, the report identifies four pathways for empowerment: improving the productivity of existing women's economic activities via climate-smart methods, integrating women into traditionally male-dominated value chains, consolidating low-carbon business models, and creating entirely new green jobs using emerging technologies. Key findings highlight that women often possess traditional knowledge that is inherently low-carbon and that emerging technologies, such as solar irrigation and circular bioeconomy tools (e.g., black soldier fly farming), can reduce servile labor and lower barriers to entry for women. The report recommends integrating gender-transformative policies into National Determined Contributions (NDCs), increasing women's access to productive assets and digital markets, and addressing the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work as a core component of climate action.

• The GLOW program identified four primary pathways to empower women while advancing climate mitigation and adaptation: making existing activities more climate-smart, integrating women into male-dominated sectors, consolidating low-carbon business models, and providing access to entirely new green jobs.
• Climate action and gender equality are synergistic; pursuing them jointly achieves more than focusing on either in isolation, as gender inequality exacerbates climate vulnerability and limits access to resilience solutions.
• Women often act as guardians of traditional knowledge and practices that are inherently low-carbon and ecologically sustainable, such as the use of non-timber forest products in Nepal or climate-respectful maize cultivation in the Philippines.
• Emerging low-carbon technologies can reduce the physical burden of servile labor for women; for example, solar-powered irrigation in Senegal and Guinea significantly reduced manual watering time and increased horticultural incomes.
• Circular bioeconomy technologies, such as black soldier fly farming and aquaponics, offer lower barriers to entry for women because they often require less land and lower initial capital than conventional production systems.
• Women's full participation in the design and implementation of climate initiatives materially improves their effectiveness; for instance, Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) in Kenya functions better when women are involved in all aspects of the business.
• Gender-blind climate policies often fail in practice; in Cameroon, an analysis of 12 land restoration policies found that only two were gender-transformative, with most failing to address women's access to resources and power.
• Digital gaps—including unequal access to infrastructure and a lack of gender-adapted applications—hinder women's access to climate-smart agricultural data and markets, as seen in rural Nepal where less than 5% of women use digital technology for agricultural information.
• Unpaid care work and time poverty are critical barriers to women's participation in green transitions; rebalancing these responsibilities is necessary to free time for income-generating low-carbon activities.
• Collective action, such as women's unions in Guinea or savings and loan associations in Nepal, is an effective strategy for women to secure productive assets like land and credit that are otherwise inaccessible.

APA

Dupar, M. (2024). EMPODERAR A LAS MUJERES EN TRANSICIONES JUSTAS. Climate and Development Knowledge Network. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/2025-01/WEB-GLOW-Report-Spanish.pdf

Chicago

Dupar, Mairi. EMPODERAR A LAS MUJERES EN TRANSICIONES JUSTAS. Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2024. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/2025-01/WEB-GLOW-Report-Spanish.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{dupar2024empoderar, author = {Dupar, Mairi}, title = {{EMPODERAR A LAS MUJERES EN TRANSICIONES JUSTAS}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2024}, url = {https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/2025-01/WEB-GLOW-Report-Spanish.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }