Brief: Powering Women's Climate-Resilient Livelihoods: A Gender-Responsive Decision Framework for Value Chains, Low-Carbon Technology and Finance

This brief presents a decision-making framework developed under the EmPower: Women for Climate-Resilient Societies programme (EmPower) in Asia and the Pacific to advance gender-responsive climate action and accelerate women’s economic empowerment through low-carbon technology adoption. 

The framework provides practical steps to identify climate-vulnerable value chains with high relevance for women-led enterprises, evaluate renewable energy or low-carbon technologies suitable for women-led enterprises and design gender-responsive financing strategies that strengthen resilience, productivity and women’s economic empowerment. This guidance supports practitioners and decision-makers in government, civil society and financial institutions to foster climate-resilient, women-led enterprises across Asia and the Pacific. It is designed not only for programme implementation, but also to inform climate policy, local economic planning and investment decisions under national adaptation, just transition and green growth agendas.