On-Air for Gender-Inclusive Nature-based Climate Solutions

About this project

This project aims to provide a platform for local sub-Saharan African communities to express their adaptation needs, particularly women and youth. The project supports them in implementing nature-based solutions for climate adaptation using Farm Radio International’s wide radio network and its innovative approaches to design, produce and air gender-responsive, interactive and local radio programs. The High Impact Radio Series partnered with 20 radio stations to produce broadcasts in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda and Zambia. The project aims to ensure a just, gender-responsive enabling environment for nature-based solutions to help local communities address their climate adaptation needs. Project activities include: (1) engaging with climate adaptation specialists, in-country stakeholders, women-led rights groups and relevant knowledge partners in the targeted communities to extract content priorities relevant to their expressed climate change adaptation needs; (2) designing, producing and airing gender-responsive, interactive High-Impact Radio Series to significantly expand access to information about nature-based solutions for climate adaptation across sub-Saharan Africa; and (3) engaging with the Canadian public to inform them about the adaptation needs of countries in sub-Saharan Africa and how nature-based solutions can be part of the solution. This project aims to reach 50,000 individuals to engage with the programs at least 1 million times and re…

Published by

Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) · Government

Countries

Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda, Zambia

Sectors

Environmental education/trainingRural land policy and managementPromotion of development awareness (non-sector allocable)

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Main focus

Published by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 2 Nov 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: CA-3-P010522001.

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