Inclusive Drought Resilience: Gender, Youth and Investment

Experience shows that drought affects people very differently depending on their access to water, land, finance, information, technology, markets, services, decisionmaking and social protection. The event will demonstrate that inclusion is not an additional social component of drought investment; it can improve the quality, relevance, effectiveness and sustainability of investment itself. The event will highlight differentiated drought risk and how vulnerability, capacities and opportunities vary across people and communities and strengthen the investment case for inclusion by showing how local evidence, knowledge and agency can improve resilience investments and position women, youth and vulnerable groups as resilience actors and investment partners, not only beneficiaries.