Transparency Maldives presents a comprehensive report examining how climate action in the Maldives intersects with gender equality and systemic corruption. Drawing on beneficiary surveys, key informant interviews, case studies, and an extensive review of national climate policies, the report reveals how governance gaps, opaque financing systems, and entrenched socio-political inequalities undermine the effectiveness and inclusivity of climate initiatives.
The study highlights persistent gender disparities in access to information, participation, and decision-making within climate projects, alongside weak accountability frameworks that enable misuse of resources, political interference, and irregularities in project implementation. It also analyses how limited community engagement, donor-driven processes, and fragmented institutional coordination deepen vulnerabilities for women and other marginalized groups, ultimately reducing climate programmes to procedural exercises rather than transformative, community-centred interventions.
The report provides actionable recommendations to strengthen transparency in climate financing, embed gender considerations into all stages of project design and implementation, enhance participatory mechanisms, and reinforce institutional integrity to ensure that climate action in the Maldives is just, accountable, and genuinely responsive to community needs.