Scaling up Climate Resilience Solutions for Burundian Smallholders

The report analyzes gender inequalities in Burundi's agricultural sector, highlighting barriers such as limited land rights, patriarchal decision-making, and low literacy among women. It outlines a Gender Action Plan by One Acre Fund (1AF) to increase female participation through tailored credit certificates, gender-sensitive training, and the collection of sex-disaggregated data to improve climate resilience for Burundian smallholders.

• Burundi has the highest rate of agricultural employment in the world, with approximately 86 percent of the population engaged in the sector, and over 55 percent of this workforce is female.
• Women in Burundi face significant barriers to economic empowerment due to a strong patriarchal system where men typically dominate decision-making and the management of household assets and income.
• Gender inequality in land tenure is prevalent; while 40.1 percent of people with secure tenure rights are women, a majority of Burundians (57%) believe women should not have the same inheritance rights to family land as men.
• Burundian women experience high rates of gender-based violence, with 46.7 percent facing some form of GBV in their lifetime and 54 percent of rural women reporting sexual violence since 2015.
• One Acre Fund (1AF) implements gender-sensitive strategies in Burundi, including the use of oral and pictorial training to address low literacy rates among rural women and maintaining a high proportion of female field extension agents.
• The proposed Gender Action Plan includes specific targets to increase female participation, such as aiming for 40% of 1AF members to be women and ensuring 40% of creditworthiness certificates are distributed to women by the end of 2026.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2024). Scaling up Climate Resilience Solutions for Burundian Smallholders. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/sap045-gender-assessment.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Scaling up Climate Resilience Solutions for Burundian Smallholders. 2024. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/sap045-gender-assessment.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2024scaling, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Scaling up Climate Resilience Solutions for Burundian Smallholders}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2024}, month = oct, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/sap045-gender-assessment.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }