The government of Sri Lanka is helping support a new program to empower women in protecting the mangroves in their country. Mangroves protect against floods, provide important habitats, and can sequester 5 times as much carbon as other forests of the same size. The program will provide microloans to 15,000 women in exchange for protecting forests through persuasion or by contacting authorities and not using trees for firewood.
Climate Protection: Reduces carbon in the atmosphere
Resilience: Protects against flooding
Food & Water: Provides habitats for fish and cleans water
Jobs & Assets: Offers increased income for women
Health, Well-Being, & Safety: Improves women’s safety and health by giving them a less hazardous livelihood
Connection: Allows women to contribute to the preservation of their natural environment
This post is part of a series on examples of multisolving, or climate-smart policies that simultaneously work to mitigate climate change while providing co-benefits such as the ones described above. The multiple benefits analysis was done using the FLOWER framework.