While millions of dollars are being provided in Africa for climate adaptation and mitigation efforts, the majority of it is being allocated to financing large-scale technology and infrastructure projects, which are traditionally male-dominated sectors in the formal economy, while little trickles into small-scale projects that directly benefit women and their livelihoods in the informal economy. This situation then runs the possibility of exacerbating already existing inequalities that climate change perpetuates, for as long as these policy decisions keep being made. Photo credit: Jacob Silverberg/Getty Images
