Thank you for your interest in our recent training session: ‘Gender in climate finance projects: what you need to know’.
There is mounting evidence that women and girls are often disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change. Mainstreaming gender within the design of adaptation and mitigation projects and programmes is crucial for securing gender equality and equity within climate-vulnerable communities. This also ensures project/programme outcomes and co-benefits accrue more equitably.
On Tuesday 28 February, we held an online training session on the topic of gender mainstreaming within adaptation and mitigation project development, titled ‘Gender in climate finance projects: what you need to know’.
If you missed this event, not to worry – we’ve created this useful webinar replay kit where you can access the following items:
- A recording of the live training session;
- A copy of the slides we used;
- Other relevant resources you may find useful.
Session content
In this interactive training session, E Co’s Head of marketing, Mariella de Souza-Baker, and consultants Roberta Piacci and Debasmita Boral-Rolland explored the concepts of gender mainstreaming within project design, tackling the key concepts, busting some myths, and detailing what gender mainstreaming looks like when employed from the ground up. They also presented scenarios in which gender mainstreaming wasn’t used, and showed how such an omission could affect the overall efficacy of a project.
Download the slides to this presentation here.
Watch the training session here:
SLIDES: Gender in climate finance projects: What you need to know
You can explore the slides for this webinar here, or download them below.
Additional resources
Alongside the above presentation, these are useful resources that you can utilise in your approach to gender mainstreaming:
- Composite indices that evaluate equality; Human Development Index (HDI), the WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022, the UNDP’s Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI);
- The World Bank’s Gender Data Portal with topic-specific indicators;
- Other international agencies, such as: OECD, World Economic Forum, UN Stats;
- The Green Climate Fund’s Gender Action Plan, and it’s Gender Policy, which entails the recommendations on gender inclusions to align with GCF investment criteria. You can also consult the Global Environment’s Gender Policy and the Adaptation Fund’s updated Gender Guidance Document.
We would also recommend you visit national data sets regarding specific locations your projects represent.
Training and updates from E Co. institute:
E Co. institute is the training division of E Co. and is run by our project formulation experts. E Co. institute builds on our experience developing low-carbon, climate-resilient projects & programmes and the specialist training workshops we’ve conducted across the globe. Our trainings, coaching and courses are intended for mid-level professionals working in UN agencies, NGOs, bilateral organisations, development banks, and local or country government officials. For more information, see here on how we can help you and your team.
- If you’re interested in learning more about E Co. institute‘s bespoke training services for you and your team, you can email Dr Grant Ballard-Tremeer at: grant@ecoltdgroup.com and we’ll be happy to arrange a 30-minute call with our consultants to discuss this further.
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About these resources
These resources are an initiative of E Co., emerging from work we are doing to develop low-carbon, climate resilient projects. E Co. has produced the resources independently.
About E Co.
We are a UK-based consulting company with a long track record in low carbon, climate-resilient project formulation. We believe that the GCF can make a substantial and lasting change in the world, and we are doing all we can to help it do that. We are leading the way and we are happy to share the lessons with the GCF community to make all GCF projects better. We would love to hear your thoughts on these resources. Please get in touch by email: grant@ecoltdgroup.com