GGCA Gender and Climate Change Training Manual - Women's ...

• Demystifying the concepts and instruments of climate change
financing and promoting the value of a gender-sensitive and womanfriendly
approach. This can be done through a broad awarenessraising
process focusing on women’s groups, gender, and policy
makers as well as all levels of the institutions in charge of implementing
climate change financing initiatives.
• Information and training on techniques to scale up knowledge and
practices with regard to projects and programmes for gendersensitive
climate change financing both in the public and the private
sectors.
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• Dealing with underlying, persistent and pervasive structural issues
that maintain and exacerbate gender inequalities, asymmetries and
biases. This requires a coherent approach that consciously grounds
advocacy in the broader framework of sustainable economic
development, poverty eradication and rural and agriculture reform.
Such an approach focuses on food sovereignty and reinforces micromeso-macro
linkages.
• Putting together programmes that will catalyze and assist women’s
and community-based organizations (CBOs) to design, put to tender
and manage climate change initiatives locally, nationally, regionally
and globally. This will require lobbying and advocacy in both the
private and public sectors to expand the provision of finance and
credit to women (a gender-sensitive financing facility?).
• Proactive work to secure, at national and global levels, new and
increased funding, specially earmarked for women’s empowerment
and gender-equality interventions in the climate change area. This
could for example be part of the GEF Small Grants Programme
which is flexible enough to allow for innovation and creativity, or a
separate and autonomous funding model.
• A participatory research agenda focused on generating evidence
on the impact of climate change financing mechanisms on women’s
status. Within this context, there could be the development of gender
audits of financing projects, gender impact assessments, and
progress towards the development of gender-sensitive climate
change financing indicators.