16/08/2026
🌱 From Diyala to Al-Qadisiyah: Amplifying Rural Women’s Voices in the Face of Climate Change
As the impacts of climate change on agriculture, livelihoods, and food security continue to intensify across Iraq, understanding the realities of rural women and listening to their voices is essential to building more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable responses.
As part of our commitment to supporting rural women and strengthening their capacity to adapt and build resilience to climate change, our organization conducted two field assessments examining the realities of rural women engaged in agriculture and the impacts of climate change in:
📍 Diyala Governorate
📍 Al-Qadisiyah Governorate
🔎 The assessments explored the challenges faced by women working in agriculture, including the impacts of drought, water scarcity, rising temperatures, and changes in agricultural production on their livelihoods and households. They also identified key needs, priorities, and opportunities to strengthen women’s adaptive capacity and resilience.
📊 Why do these assessments matter?
Because reliable, locally grounded evidence can help move from general interventions toward evidence-based programs that respond to the real needs and priorities of rural women and their communities.
The findings can also support government institutions, international organizations, UN agencies, and donors in designing more targeted interventions in climate action, agriculture, food security, livelihoods, and women’s empowerment.
🤝 We believe that investing in rural women is investing in the resilience of communities.
We therefore invite our partners, donors, international organizations, and stakeholders working on climate action, development, agriculture, and women’s empowerment to explore the findings and join us in turning evidence into meaningful and sustainable action.
📘 Access the assessments:
🔹 Assessment of Rural Women, Agriculture and Climate Change – Diyala:
🔗 [Diyala Assessment Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bg6DCY_KpaIwIOjOcyQu5plXIzvQog8a/view?usp=sharing
🔹 Assessment of Rural Women, Agriculture and Climate Change – Al-Qadisiyah:
🔗 [Al-Qadisiyah Assessment Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NO003e6qdzh3NDbOJJ0vxu3tUsRhhtLm/view?usp=sharing
🌍 From evidence to action. From women’s voices to more resilient solutions.
Rural women are not only affected by climate change — they are essential partners in building the solutions. 🌱👩🌾