Climate-Resilient Agriculture Productivity and Rural Economic Vitality
UN Women's Comparative Advantage
UN Women will bring its technical expertise and institutional mandates on gender
equality and women's economic empowerment to successfully address the project
areas in the context of climate change. UN Women is positioned to work at both the
national and international levels to create an enabling environment in providing
technical guidance to ensure that poverty alleviation and rural revitalization efforts
accrue benefits to both men and women equally.
Partnerships
UN Women will work closely with Government Institutions in China including the
project partner Hu’nan Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (DARA), the
Provincial Women's Federation, and their counterpart institutions at the county level.
A bottom-up strategy will be used to shift local policies and practices to be more
responsive to women through piloting best practices and building the capacity of
women's groups and federations to engage in policy advocacy. A top-down strategy
will also be used to leverage engagement from central government departments
and line ministries including All China Women's Federation. The project addresses
thematic areas relevant to poverty alleviation, gender equality and agriculture sector
and builds upon national policies and local strategies under these areas.
Building on UN Women's track record in Qinghai
From 2018 to 2021, UN Women China worked closely with the local
governments in Qinghai province to implement the project 'Strengthening
Qinghai Women Farmers' Income Security and Resilience in a Changing
Climate' which focused on climate-smart economic empowerment for
rural women and increasing innovative market access. Till date, over
69,000 women, 6 business networks including one women-owned
agricultural cooperative in the Liupan mountainous area in Qinghai have
benefited from capacity development and financing offered under the
project. The range of sectors which received support included sustainable
agriculture, livestock farming, ethnic arts and crafts, and e-commerce.
Apart from increasing women's incomes and achieving diversification
of agricultural crops and rural livelihoods, the project also delivered
visible results for increasing rural women's political participation and
mainstreaming gender awareness in local governance.
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