Gender and Climate Change Finance

Credit: IISD/Kiara Worth

A gender perspective needs to be taken into account when developing resource mobilization strategies, applying climate finance instruments, and ensuring equal participation in the deployment of financial resources, particularly at the local level.

In addition to providing guidance to the GEF, Parties have established four special funds: the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), both managed by the GEF, and the GCF under the Convention; and the Adaptation Fund (AF) under the Kyoto Protocol. more>>

Operating entities

Resource	Institution
Gender policy Building Resilience in the Greater uMngeni Catchment Webinar Series to Share Best Practices Among National Implementing Partners	Adaptation Fund (AF)
Updated Gender Policy and Action Plan 2018-2020 Ensuring Gender- Responsive Green Climate Fund (GCF) Projects and Programs Women key agents for tackling climate change	Green Climate Fund (GCF)
GEF Policy Series - GEF Policy on Gender Equality Sub-study on Gender Mainstreaming in the GEF Gender Equality Action Plan Gender in LDCF and SCCF Gender Mainstreaming Climate Change and Women: Impacts Compounded by Gender Inequality G EF Gender Partnership	Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Financial Institutions

Additional Resources

Resource	Institution
Women and social enterprises: how gender integration can boost entrepreneurial solutions to poverty	Acumen
Gender and Poverty and Climate Change Finance	Climate Public Expenditures and Institutional Review (CPEIR)
Gender and Climate Finance: New Data on Women in Decision-Making Positions	International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Making climate finance work for women: Overview of the integration of gender equality in aid to climate change English French	OECD DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET)
German Climate Finance	Oxfam Deutschland, Brot fuer die Welt, Germanwatch and Heinrich Boell Stiftung
Gender and Climate Finance	United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Can Climate Finance Achieve Gender Equity in Developing Countries?	United Nations University (UNU)