The EnGenDER project seeks to integrate gender equality and human-rights based approaches into disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change (CC) adaptation and environmental management frameworks to identify and address gaps to allow equal access to DRR and CC and environmental solution to the most vulnerable populations.
EnGenDER is being funded by the Global Affairs Canada and UK Dept for International Development (managed by UNDP); implemented through NCCO under MSDCCDRM.
The EnGenDER project is unique, allowing project activities to spread across a vast range of implementing partners (Agriculture, Rural, BLPA, Energy). In Belize, EnGenDER targets vulnerable populations, as is reflected with:
- Water-Boser, which is essential in supplying villages with clean water when faced with challenges as droughts;
- Support to the GAMMA (technical aspect) and BAP (social aspect) team that were vital in the evaluation of southern Belize’s (Dangriga Town and Hopkins Village) coastline and the effects that erosion on the shoreline and communities;
- Installation/refurbishment of bus sheds in western Belize, these solar powered bus sheds, assist communities in providing shelter (sun/rain), encourages commuters to gather at a central point, reducing the stops needed by buses, by providing light and charging ports for commenters.
- Capacity building inititives, by supporting BNCG La Ruta Maya Team, EnGenDER project documented the benefits and climate change risks that the Belize River faces and how communities have benefited and adapted to these effects.
