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

_Selected Issues Papers, June 11, 2026_

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## Bibliographic details
- 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

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### Overview
- 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.

### Key findings
- 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

### Policy recommendations and implications
- 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.

### Data, methods, and scope
- 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.

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