Investing in female entrepreneurs improves livelihoods in Bangladesh.

The community has also been very active and appreciative of Charity’s work. Local women are engaging now, more than ever, in forest and farming activities.

The workshop afforded key stakeholders an opportunity to challenge assumptions about what gender means and to exchange knowledge on how to link gender and climate change issues in practice.

Since 2015, some 15,000 farmers have been joining forces to form groups and practice collective marketing.

“I was motivated to fish because I saw fishermen making more money than I was. One day I decided to try out the net,” says Valeria Maniraguha, a 38-year-old mother of four children who started fishing in 2010.