Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project (SLCRP)

The assessment identifies systemic gender inequalities, high rates of gender-based violence, and significant barriers for people with disabilities in Sierra Leone's coastal regions. It argues that these structural disadvantages hinder effective climate adaptation and recommends mainstreaming GESI across all project activities to ensure equitable access to resources and decision-making.

• Climate change impacts vulnerable groups in Sierra Leone differently, with women, girls, and people with disabilities bearing the brunt of natural disasters due to social norms, mobility issues, and disrupted livelihoods.
• Decision-making is heavily male-dominated at both the household and community levels, reinforced by patriarchal social norms and 'earned credentials' (such as education and civic duties) that are often inaccessible to women, youth, and people with disabilities.
• Land tenure is governed by customary and statutory laws, but customary practices predominantly favour male ownership and inheritance, leaving women and youth with precarious access to land and food security assets.
• There is a stark gender division of labour in coastal livelihoods: men typically handle fishing, logging, and sand collection, while women focus on fish processing, charcoal production, and petty trading.
• Gender-based violence (GBV) is widespread and socially accepted, with two in three women experiencing it in their lifetime; climate change is noted to exacerbate these risks by increasing poverty and household stress.
• People with disabilities face extreme marginalization, often viewed through a 'charity model' rather than as active participants, and are disproportionately affected by climate events like floods due to limited mobility.
• Poor water and sanitation infrastructure disproportionately affects women and girls, who perform 77% of water collection in rural areas and face hygienic constraints during menstruation.
• Mangrove exploitation is gendered, with men performing the logging and sand mining while women process the wood into charcoal or sell the resources, often facing health risks from open-fire cooking.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2024). Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project (SLCRP). https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/sap036-gender-assessment.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project (SLCRP). 2024. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/sap036-gender-assessment.pdf.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Green Climate Fund |title=Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project (SLCRP) |date=29 January 2024 |url=https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/sap036-gender-assessment.pdf |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2024sierra, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project (SLCRP)}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2024}, month = jan, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/sap036-gender-assessment.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }