Climate Finance Must Reach Those Building Resilience on the Ground
Making Climate Finance Work for Women Farmers
What does gender-responsive climate finance really mean?
It means designing finance around the realities of women farmers – the climate risks they face, the barriers they encounter, and the investments they need to protect their livelihoods and strengthen resilience.
Climate finance can only be truly resilient when it responds to the realities of those most exposed to climate risk.
At the report launch and roundtable on “Gender-Responsive Climate Finance for Pakistan’s Women in Agriculture,” jointly organised by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and Mobilink Bank,
NDRMF contributed a disaster resilience and social safeguards perspective to the discussion surrounding the study 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓-𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆: 𝑨 𝑫𝒊𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝑭𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏.
Representing NDRMF, Mr. Shabeeb Hussain, Deputy Manager Social & Gender Safeguards, brought the conversation beyond access to finance, highlighting that gender-responsive climate finance requires to embed gender analysis, meaningful participation, gender-informed investment decisions, social safeguards and measurable resilience outcomes into climate investments.
The discussion reinforced an important shift in thinking: women farmers are not simply vulnerable beneficiaries. They are producers, economicactors, investors and agents of climate resilience. Financialsolutions – from climate resilient agriculture and insurance to water efficient technologies and livelihood diversification – must therefore be designed to enable their resilience and economicempowerment.
The opportunity is to move:
From women as beneficiaries → to women as partners
From vulnerability → to resilience
From financial access → to economic empowerment
For NDRMF, inclusive climate finance is ultimately about ensuring that resilience reaches the communities where climate risk is experienced most directly.
27 August, 2026
