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In Honduras, USAID seeks to promote renewable energy and environmental conservation and strengthen marginalized groups' participation in local and national governance.

• 02/29/2024
• Kristin Kelly Jangraw

The Women in Power System Transformation initiative was launched to close the workforce gap and advance gender diversity in the power sector.

• 12/05/2023
• Ryan Horns, Isabel McCan

The development of the Women in Power System Transformation initiative is a significant step towards advancing climate efforts and gender equality around the world. Women in PST is bringing together leading institutions focused on gender diversity and equality in the energy and other sectors to support students, researchers, and power sector practitioners.

• 04/18/2023
• Ariel Schindler

In this blog, revisit USAID’s work spanning climate, gender, and social inclusion.

• 03/09/2023
• Ariel Schindler

Check out some blogs that you might have missed from 2022.

• 12/27/2022
• Ariel Schindler

USAID is advancing gender-responsive climate action by implementing evidence-based, high-impact programs in a range of sectors, including gender-equitable access to green jobs, land rights, natural resource management, and climate finance.

• 11/14/2022
• M. Mena

Through the Scaling Up Renewable Energy program (SURE), USAID assisted the Fund for Non-Conventional Energy and Energy Efficiency (FENOGE) to promote gender equality and female empowerment in the Colombian energy sector. Their new Gender and Diversity Policy systematically integrates diversity, inclusion, and gender equality principles and aims to promote female participation in the energy sector, reduce female poverty in the energy sector, and reduce gender-based violence.

• 11/09/2022
• Scarlett Piantini Gil

In the fight against climate change, the private sector plays a strategic role in addressing development challenges. This blog describes how USAID partners with the private sector to consult, strategize, align, collaborate, and implement technological, financial, or strategic solutions to conservation, adaptation, and mitigation challenges.

• 10/25/2022
• Tedi Rabold

USAID has developed a new Climate Strategy that will guide our hu­mani­ta­ri­an and development work through 2030 in a way that is truly different – by calling on all corners of USAID to play a part in our whole-of-agency response.

• 07/21/2022
• Alex Lane

Over the course of 2021, the Climatelinks community contributed over 140 blogs on topics from youth climate action to a new wave of private investment for climate solutions.

• 12/09/2021
• Sophie Schrader

Air pollution affects women and girls differently than men and boys. These differences include biological and socioeconomic disparities, and unequal gender norms that affect exposure type and frequency.

• 07/20/2021
• USAID

The water-energy-food nexus represents a $5 trillion consumer market, millions of livelihoods, and the source of all food that people around the world eat.

• 06/03/2021
• Katie Bailey

In association with the Leaders Summit on Climate Change, hosted by President Biden April 22 and 23, partners of the LEDS Global Partnership (LEDS GP) announced the following high-ambition regional and global initiatives.

• 05/25/2021
• Ron Benioff

When women are able to fully participate and lead in the workforce, we know that businesses prosper. Research shows that gender and ethnically diverse companies outperform industry standards by 25 percent.

• 03/08/2021
• Corinne Hart, Hayley Samu

The USAID-funded Kathmandu Vehicle Alliance (KEVA) program, implemented by Winrock International from 2001 to 2006, continues to benefit the environment and people of Nepal due to its role in expanding the electric vehicle market, which has reduced GHG emissions that lower air quality and contribute to climate change.

• 06/22/2020
• Anne Cassidy