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USAID’s Clean Air Catalyst program, with help from USAID’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub commissioned a gender analysis for air pollution in the transport sector in Indore, India—a CAC pilot city of 2 million people.

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference featured USAID in an official side-event showcasing the U.S. Government’s commitment and approach to gender-responsive climate action.

USAID and NASA are working with partners to use Earth observation data on crops and growing conditions to inform the design and implementation of gender-responsive, index-based insurance in East Africa.

In the Philippines, women are leading the way in reducing plastic waste pollution by creating circular economies where waste is used and reused as a resource.

In February 2021, the UNICEF and United Nations Population Fund predicted that there may be an additional two million cases of female genital mutilation/cutting over the next decade as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through Koota Injena, USAID and Amref Health Africa engage with communities in northern Kenya to collectively abandon female genital mutilation and child marriage.

USAID has countless partnerships and extensive programs to economically and intellectually empower women to leverage their know-how and expertise to increase climate resilience.

The USAID’s Clean Cities, Blue Ocean program is enabling local waste collectors to participate in programs that provide them opportunities to champion sustainable waste management practices in their communities.

Launched in 2019, a USAID-PepsiCo partnership is empowering women farmers with new skills and knowledge under PepsiCo’s Sustainable Farming Program in the potato value chain in West Bengal, India.

USAID has numerous programs empowering women in the fight against climate change.