Integrating Gender and Poverty in Climate Finance: An Interactive Session

Background

A key element to overcoming climate impacts and advancing equitable outcomes is gender-responsive climate finance. Addressing gender-differentiated impacts through climate finance can create economic opportunities for women, safeguarding them from climate vulnerabilities and ultimately creating more resilient, cohesive and inclusive societies. This requires building a better understanding of financing opportunities; planning, budgeting and monitoring; capacities and string institutions.

This side event titled Integrating Gender and Poverty in Climate Finance: An Interactive Session will introduce a framework to integrate gender and poverty into climate finance; share good practices and create a peer learning network for better policies, accountability, evidence and innovation. It will also advocate for a more regional approach as climate events and their impact goes beyond national boundaries.

Objectives

• Enhance understanding of the gender-responsive climate finance landscape in the region.
• Explore existing frameworks and successful case studies, providing actionable insights on integrating gender and social inclusion considerations in climate finance.
• Foster collaborative exchange of resources, knowledge, and information among Member States, women-led CSOs, and relevant stakeholders on gender-responsive climate finance.

The speakers in the side event are as follows:

Keynote Speaker: H.E. Sharmeen S. Murshid, Honorable Advisor, Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs, Bangladesh

Panelists:

• Anette Baleda, Chief, Policy Development Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Division (PDPMED) Philippines Commission on Women
• Tshewang Dorji T., Director, Environment and Climate Change Division, Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)
• Shivaranjani Venkatramani, Climate Finance Specialist, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
• Aizhan Dzhanaeva, Researcher, Public Association Women’s Organisation “ALGA”

Moderator: Asad Maken, Regional Public Climate Finance Advisor, UNDP

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