PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
Particularly in developing countries, the consequences of climate change can increase the burden for women and girls, for example, causing them to travel further to obtain daily supplies, leaving less time for paid work and potentially exposing them to greater risk to their personal safety. Girls are being forced to marry before they reach 18, as families, impoverished by years of droughts, are going hungry and having to make impossible decisions about whose mouths to feed. “The global climate crisis is already changing girls’ lives and futures. The negative effects of climate change on agricultural production will impact women the hardest as they work under the most perilous circumstances in the sector, with lower wages, tougher conditions and poorer livelihood opportunities. rates of child marriage, domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking due to climate change …
