OUR APPROACH
Start with the problem. Build around women’s realities.
Climate adaptation works best when solutions respond to how women actually live and work. For What Comes begins by understanding the problem, what is preventing adaptation, and what it will take to move a practical response forward.
From identifying the challenge to scaling what works.
Identify the problem
Understand how climate risks affect women’s health, livelihoods, income, and ability to adapt—and where existing systems are falling short.
Find the right partners
Bring together women-led and local organizations, technical experts, researchers, public institutions, and others who can help address the problem.
Mobilize resources
Connect strong ideas and local priorities with the funding, technical support, and other resources needed to move forward.
Implement practical solutions
Help turn promising approaches into programs, tools, and support that women can actually use in their daily lives.
Learn and adapt
Use evidence and implementation experience to understand what is working, what is not, and what should change.
Scale what works
Help effective approaches reach more women, communities, and places facing similar climate risks.
DIFFERENT PROBLEMS REQUIRE DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS
We do not begin with a predetermined intervention.
The right response might involve better information, financial protection, changes to the physical environment, training, technology, public policy, new partnerships—or a combination of approaches.
Our role is to start with the problem and help assemble the pieces needed to solve it.
BUILT THROUGH PARTNERSHIP
No single organization can build climate resilience alone.
Women and communities
Ground the work in lived experience and local priorities.
Local organizations
Bring trusted relationships, context, and implementation capacity.
Technical experts
Help identify, adapt, and test practical solutions.
Funders and institutions
Provide resources and pathways for implementation and scale.
WHERE WE’RE STARTING