Real Choices, Real Lives - Climate Change and Girls’ Education - Insights from Benin, Togo

The 16 and 17-year- adjustments at the individual and olds, and their parents and carers, reflect on household level such as diversifying the struggle to stay in school and what climate avenues of income or utilising available change means to them. [...] With their in humanitarian crises, and in disaster help, it also aims to understand the extent to which risk reduction (DRR) focuses on and education supports girls’ and young women’s ability to acknowledges the particular risks to adapt and how this, in turn, supports climate change girls and women. [...] It reduces the number of people within to knowledge and education, and are more likely to the household who need to be fed, and, in be malnourished.24 Women and girls constitute the communities that practice bride price – paid by majority of the world’s poor and are often dependent the groom’s family to the bride’s family – it can be on natural resources for their livelihoods.25 They are a source. [...] Their willingness to learn, and to act, to help themselves and their communities in the struggle to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, is unquestionable. [...] Essohana (17, Togo) It is clear from the research that girls’ education, and gender equality, are victims of climate change: many of the girls in the study are taking In all three countries, there is a sense that girls’ on additional responsibilities as families respond abilities to help combat the impacts of climate to the impact of climate change on their lives and change are being dismissed and.