Strategic Philanthropy for Climate Resilience and Gender Equity
Why Climate Change is a Women’s Health and Rights Issue
When climate shocks disrupt access to healthcare, educational attainment, and workforce participation, existing gender and social disparities become even more pronounced. Globally, girls, women, and marginalized populations bear the brunt of these stresses, limiting their capacity to adapt and build long-term resilience.
Health: Rising temperatures, food insecurity, and extreme weather heighten complications during pregnancy and childbirth, while displacement and strained health systems curtail access to contraception and other essential sexual and reproductive health services.
Economic Opportunity: Crop failures, water scarcity, and rising unpaid care demands reduce the time available for paid work, while disrupted informal markets slash earnings and biased credit, land, and insurance systems deprive women of the assets needed to recover and rebuild.
Women’s Leadership and Power: Fragile legal and social protections leave women vulnerable to exploitation and displacement. Without secure land rights or natural resource management, they are cut off from the stewardship roles and green-economy opportunities these resources create.
These climate-related risks intersect with and compound existing inequities, widening gaps in access to health, education, capital, and leadership.
A New Paradigm for Philanthropic Investment
To meet this moment, philanthropy must evolve beyond siloed frameworks and embrace integrated and inclusive approaches. A new philanthropic paradigm is essential, and Bitton Global Advisory (BGA) is built to guide it. Here’s how we are working with today’s leading philanthropists to advance next-generation philanthropy:
Integrating a Dual Climate + Gender Lens from Day One
We design portfolios that span health, livelihoods, and natural-resource stewardship, according to our client’s interests.Deploying Flexible, Multi-Year Capital
Our strategies pair long time horizons with adaptive funding so partners can work towards systems-change goals despite evolving climate threats.Catalyzing Innovative Finance
Through guarantees, recoverable grants, and blended structures, we attract public and private capital to gender-smart climate solutions at scale.Funding Systems Change
We channel strategy and resources to advance gender equality through transformative health, market, and government systems change to achieve the large-scale, deep-rooted, and holistic shifts that underpin climate resilience.Strengthening Evidence and Accountability
As leaders in producing cutting edge gender-climate analytics, BGA generates actionable evidence and decision-ready metrics that enable funders to assess, anticipate, and respond to climate impacts on gender equality. We measure what matters for both people and planet so capital flows toward solutions that deliver holistic, lasting results.
