Executive Summary
The global climate crisis is not gender-neutral. In many African countries, 90 percent of the female labor force is involved in agriculture, which means that large numbers of women and girls there already are bearing the direct consequences of climate change. As weather patterns become more erratic, women smallholder farmers and their families face increasing risk. This reality is exacerbated by pervasive inequalities related to access—to contraception; to financing, supplies, and land ownership for food production; and to claim their rightful place at the decision-making table.
An inextricable link exists between securing the fundamental rights of women and girls and stemming the most devastating effects of climate change. Simply put, women are the solution.
Collaborating across reproductive health, climate-smart farming, women’s rights, and bold storytelling, this project team from MSI, along with One Acre Fund, Global Fund for Women, and Population Media Center, will amplify the power, strength, and skills of rural women in Kenya, Malawi, and Nigeria—countries with large agrarian populations—to build more food-secure, climate-resilient communities.
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Accomplishments
COVID-19 has forced the healthcare sector to innovate, teaching important lessons that will shape the organization's services beyond the pandemic. From introducing telemedicine and delivering home-based reproductive healthcare to building new partnerships with governments to embed contraceptive services in national health programs, COVID-19 has been a catalyst for change within MSI and across healthcare.
Despite the challenges of 2020, we achieved 85 percent of our annual service delivery goal, serving more than 12.8 million people at more than 34,000 sites across the 37 countries where the organization works. That means that every day, we served 35,000 people. MSI also continued to reach one of the most vulnerable groups, adolescents. Last year, 1 in 6 clients we reached were under the age of 20. The organization estimates that its services last year prevented 13.4 million unintended pregnancies, 5.6 million unsafe abortions, and 35,000 maternal deaths.
