Gender Mainstreaming in Climate Change Finance Projects

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by Jackie Siles, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

climate change

AfDB

The African Development Bank’s Department of Gender, Women and Civil Society (AHGC) designed, in partnership with the Climate Change and Green Growth Department (PECG), the AfDB/CIF's Inclusive Climate Action Initiative. This initiative was implemented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2019. The purpose of the Initiative was to support the concrete integration of gender into future Climate Invest Fund (CIF) initiatives implemented under the supervision and support of the Bank by conducting context-specific research, developing two case studies on good practices and producing a set of knowledge resources to support the work of the African Development Bank and its staff.

Last update: 06 Oct 2020

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Context

Challenges addressed

Unsustainable harvesting incl. Overfishing

Lack of alternative income opportunities

Unemployment / poverty

Scale of implementation

Subnational

Ecosystems

Hot desert

Tropical evergreen forest

Theme

Gender mainstreaming

Protected areas

renewable energy

Location

Akumadan, Berekum

West and Central Africa

North Africa

Impacts

One of the main impacts has been private companies finding out their advance on gender mainstream in the implementation of projects and where they still have room for improvement. In addition, the two case studies have information about good key practices for other projects on forest and land restoration and large-scale renewable energy to consider. They provide critical learning points for guiding gender-responsive project design, implementation and M&E—showing the importance of including gender in staffing and programming.

Link to the document cases can be found at:

Gender mainstreaming in climate change projects - The case of FORM GHANA LTD. in Ghana. (https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/gender-mainstreaming-climate-change-projects-case-form-ghana-ltd-ghana)

Gender mainstreaming in climate change projects - The case of Noor Ouarzazate in Morocco. (https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/gender-mainstreaming-climate-change-projects-case-noor-ouarzazate-morocco)

In addition, after the training on gender and climate change provided to the African Development Bank’s Department of Gender, Women and Civil Society (AHGC) and the Climate Change and Green Growth Department (PECG) staff, they are better prepare to support the strengthening of gender issues into the CIF projects.