Bridging the Climate-Gender-Health Nexus:

Established following a 2023 World Health Summit event, the ClimateXSRHR Community of Practice brings together 100+ funders seeking greater impact at the climate-SRHR nexus. The donor Community of Practice aims to build a focused, action-oriented learning community based on field evidence to enable smarter and more targeted investments. Members range from donors new to the climate-gender-health intersection to experienced investors. The group focuses on: 1) exchanging learnings and insights; 2) identifying opportunities for alignment and collaboration around shared resiliency goals; and 3) exploring opportunities to advance climate-SRHR-gender equity financing.

Channels for engagement include:

• Private Donor LinkedIn Group
• Quarterly newsletter
• Virtual and in-person convenings

Panorama Global serves as the platform and secretariat for the Community of Practice. Contact Panorama for information about joining and/or financially supporting the scale-up of the Donor Community of Practice.

MSI Reproductive Choices and Blue Ventures Conservation are partnering to scale their successful model for integrating comprehensive SRH services with community-based fisheries management and marine conservation initiatives to address the effects of climate change. Taking lessons from their existing partnership in Madagascar, they are expanding to coastal areas of Kenya, Tanzania, and Senegal, regions where both organizations have deep roots and where SRH needs and climate risks are significant. This coordinated expansion will involve local organizations and frontline champions to increase access to SRH services and engage women in rebuilding fisheries, alternative livelihoods, and environmental protection*.

*This work belongs to a category of development practice known in the US as integrated Population-Environment-Development (PED) programs (also known as the population-health-environment approach), previously supported by USAID in collaboration with other private foundations and philanthropists over several decades.

The Resilience Fund for Women in Global Value Chains is an innovative pooled corporate fund investing in women-led organizations in South and Southeast Asia. Its flexible, trust-based funding enables grassroots women leaders to determine solutions for their own communities, starting with a focus on women’s sexual and reproductive health, safety, and economic resilience. The Fund’s 65 grantee partners are on the front lines of building resilience to the gendered impacts of climate change. The heart of the Fund’s power-shifting approach is its learning model – creating safe spaces for dialogue and networking among its corporate, women’s fund, and grantee partners. It is led by the UN Foundation’s Universal Access Project and Women Win. With 10 corporate investors and a representative Advisory Board, the Fund is advancing democratic approaches to philanthropy while elevating the unique role of women in addressing climate resilience in supply chain communities.

FP2030’s Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) team has been working with countries committed to family planning (FP) across sectors to consider how they can continue to deliver FP services and strengthen contraceptive supply chains amidst global emergencies, including pandemics, conflicts, and climate-induced disasters. FP2030 fostered collaboration across the humanitarian-development-climate nexus and promoted investments in emergency preparedness to build more resilient health systems and ensure uninterrupted access to FP and SRH services even during crises.

Grand Challenges Canada is a global leader at the intersection of climate and health, committed to addressing one of the most pressing challenges of our time. GCC is leading the Global Climate and Health Survey, a global initiative that aims to identify climate-related health priorities in the most climate-vulnerable regions in the world. This approach recognizes that members of local health communities are best placed to describe the most pressing and evolving health threats exacerbated by the climate crisis. As a gender lens investor, this initiative includes scoping the impact of climate change on SRHR and women’s health, and the gendered dimension of health risks posed by climate change. The results of the survey will be shared globally as a public good to inform funding, research, and policy. Survey results will also directly inform a new climate and health funding program GCC seeks to launch in early 2026 and will guide GCC’s approach to further integrate climate into its existing SRHR and women’s health portfolios.

GCC welcomes donor collaborations to join this global funding program and increase impact through health innovation.