Climate change adaptation has come to the forefront of the global agenda since the 2015 Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and momentum for international financing for climate change adaptation projects is growing. This growth provides the family planning/reproductive health community an opportunity to engage with adaptation decisionmakers and processes to potentially access adaptation funding as part of multisectoral adaptation projects.

Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has been a leader in advancing multisectoral approaches to integrate family planning and reproductive health as solutions to complex challenges, such as climate change adaptation and sustainable, equitable development. A growing evidence base links women’s met needs for family planning with reduced human vulnerability to climate change and enhanced resilience in the face of climate change impacts. Yet, family planning has been largely left out of adaptation proposals and projects. PRB produced a policy brief that identifies four key strategies the family planning community can use to promote inclusion of family planning in adaptation strategies in ways that build resilience, improve health, and enhance women’s economic empowerment. This how-to video, based on the brief, illustrates these strategies and the ways that programs can position themselves to access climate adaptation funding.