Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Clean water by repairing and drilling new boreholes, reducing pressure on local forests for firewood to boil and purify water

This Gold Standard project in the coastal region of Kenya, provides clean drinking water to small rural communities through the repair and installation of boreholes.

Planting up to 400 hectares of new mangroves to restore degraded areas and extend a nature reserve

164 million litres of clean water per year brought to 270,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa

Using solar technology to meet the energy needs of a growing population while promoting low carbon development

Efficient cookstoves bring improved health and financial security to 600,000 households in India

Granting energy access to 945,140 households in India through solar lighting and renewable energy

Water filters and improved cookstoves bring health benefits to more than 230,000 people in Guatemala

Tackling household air pollution and deforestation with improved cookstoves in Kenya

An efficient, easy-to-use stove, reduces fuel use by 50%, reducing the health impacts of indoor air pollution and saving money

Increasing fuel efficiency and reducing indoor air pollution using improved cookstoves

Fuel-efficient cookstoves reduce deforestation, bring health benefits and deliver financial savings to Malawian communities

A programme to help people burn coal in a more fuel efficient manner

Working with indigenous forest-dependent communities to build sustainable economic livelihoods and protect a global biodiversity hotspot

Empowering 90,000 farmers across 4,000 villages to build sustainable livelihoods through community reforestation activity

Granting land tenure and providing agricultural training to prevent deforestation and promote sustainable economic livelihoods

Creating forest based sustainable livelihoods for 225,000 people, to mitigate threats to forest resources and build climate resilience

Conserving important biodiversity by empowering 50,000 community members to build sustainable livelihoods

Improving the quality of rural homes by converting animal waste to a clean energy source

Working with 6,000 farmers to improve financial security and build sustainable livelihoods through community based tree planting programmes

Developing local climate action leaders through networks of community-led reforestation projects

Empowering 61,000 farmers across 2,000 villages to build sustainable livelihoods through community reforestation activity

Protecting 65,000 hectares of tropical peat swamp from palm oil conversion by engaging local communities through education and agroforestry training. The first project to have been validated as contributing to all 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals by the SDVISta programme.