This report assessing the engagement of women and gender-related groups is embedded within a landscape of global climate finance that increasingly recognizes the role of women and diverse stakeholders in providing differentiated perspectives that contribute to more effective program design thereby helping to ensure project sustainability. Evidence suggests that the inclusion of women in climate processes improves the effectiveness and efficiency of technical assistance and development funding, enhances social justice, alleviates poverty and increases global sustainability, and improves impact of disbursed climate finance.
Based on this evidence, the study aimed to assess the engagement of women and gender related groups (including gender machinery)in the CIF—in governance, and in the design and implementation of CIF investments—toward creating greater transformational change, and identifying certain conditions that provided an enabling environment for this engagement. The assessment also documented some key learning on the impacts of this engagement across CIF programs.
Source: CIF
