Improve girls’ and women’s access to resources ― land, water, sanitation, and clean energy ― and they will be healthier, wealthier, safer, and better educated.

When girls and women endure restricted access to resources such as land, energy, water and sanitation, there are far-reaching implications. These can affect their health, education, housing, and livelihoods, as well as the safety and sustainability of the environments in which they live. Gender-sensitive approaches need to be adopted in order to create an enabling environment for effective and secure access to resources.