Resilience Through Inclusion: Women and Data-Driven Climate Policies in Rwanda

Selected Issues Papers, June 11, 2026

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Authors: Maria Gelrud, Marina Marinkov, Dr. Jorge Mondragon, Daniela Viana Costa
Published: June 11, 2026
Series: Selected Issues Papers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229049405.018

Climate shocks represent a recurrent macroeconomic risk for Rwanda, affecting growth, fiscal stability, and household welfare.
Gender inclusion is macro-critical to Rwanda’s growth and resilience strategy, shaping the effectiveness of adaptation and fiscal policy responses.
Women are highly exposed to these shocks due to their concentration in agriculture and informal employment, as well as more limited access to finance, assets, and coping mechanisms.
The paper uses both micro- and macro-level analysis to assess interactions between climate shocks, gender gaps, and fiscal policy.

Climate shocks widen gender income disparities.
Closing gender gaps enhances the effectiveness of adaptation policies and accelerates post-shock recovery.
Rwanda’s existing data-driven policy tools offer a strong foundation for linking climate and gender objectives within fiscal policy:
- climate budget tagging
- gender budget tagging
- the dynamic social registry

Strengthen climate budget tagging to better identify and finance adaptation priorities that consider gender differentials.
Expand and deepen gender budget tagging to ensure fiscal measures target disparities in income, access to finance, and assets.
Enhance the dynamic social registry to improve targeting and responsiveness of social protection in the wake of climate shocks.
Promote women’s participation in the green transition to help sustain resilience, inclusion, and long-term growth.

Analysis combines micro-level and macro-level approaches to quantify how climate shocks affect gender income gaps and recovery dynamics.
Focus areas include agriculture, informal employment, finance, assets, coping mechanisms, and fiscal policy tools.