Women Bear The Brunt Of The Climate Crisis And Extreme Weather. Building Their Capacity By Designing Special Programmes For Equipping Them With Adequate Knowledge On Funds Management Will Build Their Resilience The plights of women and girls are highly underestimated and underreported; their huge contributions to the life of their communities are equally grossly undervalued.

That is why individuals and organizations who take their programs and projects to women’s constituencies are often viewed to be overdoing in areas that needs little In 2008, ILO researchers draw the attention of the world to the fact that about 40 per cent of the global workforces in the agricultural sector are women.

Many rural women are sole or co-bread winners of their families; a considerable proportion of them shoulder alone all domestic activities, such as nutrition, child care and even education. And their workload, like firewood collection and water fetching, are highly affected by climate change. Women are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because they are poor; they are poor because they lack the 2 most critical factors of production such as land and capital Apart from being the cause of poverty in some of the worst affected areas the climate change impacts represent equally a great impediment to the sustained eradication of poverty. It is clear that women need more than mere sympathy.

They need well designed empowerment programs geared towards generating for them sources of income. CCRF allocates a sizable amount of its annual budget to help women to not only raise their head above the water but also build their resilience against climate change and become employers at the community levels