Mafalda Duarte, Program Manager

Lima, Peru, December 11, 2014

Social Dimensions of Climate Change:

Enhancing resilience and gender equity

through climate finance

Social Dimensions of Climate Change

“Climate change and climate variability worsen existing poverty, exacerbate existing inequalities,

and trigger both new vulnerabilities and some opportunities for individuals and

communities…Climate change interacts with non-climatic stressors and entrenched structural

inequalities to shape vulnerabilities”

IPCC, AR5 2014

The CIF’s investment planning approach addresses

• Climate risk and its impacts on households and communities

• Strengthening of country-led climate action through improved national planning capacity

• Targeted investment in sub-national regions where sensitivity to climate hazards is high

• Enabling policies that enhance sector-specific interventions

• Scale, learning and outreach to inform design and improved implementation

Social dimensions of CC in CIF Programs

• Large-scale projects in RE, EE and Transport; working to identify distributional impacts, to move beyond safeguards approaches alone

• Portfolio has significant focus on investments with local impact, incl. off-grid investments & RE-based small enterprise

• Community-level impacts & institutional development at all levels is central to PPCR programmatic approach

• Forest users and producers at center of landscape-based approach; Focus on benefit-sharing; tenure security; and development of forest-based livelihoods

Vulnerability to Climate Change: The Case of Gender

Climate change impacts are not gender-neutral, thus attention to gender is needed in both mitigation and adaptation finance

Gender exacerbates vulnerability to climate change due to differences between women and men in:

Rights

Resources

Voice

Gender division of labor within household and at community level

When gender-based inequalities interact within specific social, economic and governance institutions, the climate vulnerability of particular groups -- most often women – is heightened.

Gender-informed focus within programs and projects will address some of the concerns above

Gender-specific risks in the face of climate change

Women and men have different vulnerabilities to climate impacts

Women and men have different coping strategies and resources

Gender-specific analysis, design, outreach and preparedness activities are needed to overcome traditional barriers and biases

Women’s effective participation in climate planning needs specific support

Women’s access to and control over a share of any new resources and assets that may be introduced through projects is crucial for equitable outcomes

Opportunities to improve development co-benefits require closer examination of risks and benefits to specific groups, including women.

Nepal PPCR (ADB): Building Climate Resilience of Watersheds in Mountain Eco-Systems

USD 24m project to improve watershed planning in climate-vulnerable areas and

improve community-based water resources management for irrigation and domestic

uses. Project will benefit 35,000 households and enhance water productivity through

improved agricultural practices.

Targeted goals for women’s participation in water committees, including by Dalit

women For equity in micro irrigation, soil water retention, local water allocation

arrangements

Zambia PPCR (IBRD): Strengthening Climate

Resilience and the Barotse Sub-Basin

USD 36m project strengthens Zambia’s national institutional structure for climate

resilience and improves adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities in Barotse

sub-basin. Targets 25,800 households in 8 target districts, including the 32% of total

households that are female-headed. Includes focus on climate information

services, and reserves at least 30% of individual ‘champion grants’ for women for

local adaptation activities.

India CTF (ADB): Rajasthan Renewable Energy Transmission Investment Program

USD 200m project financing the construction of transmission infrastructure with a target of 4,300 MW of RE and including strategic planning for state solar park development.

Features outreach to women representatives to participate in planning for RE in the state; livelihoods training for women’s self-help groups and female micro-entrepreneurs to develop solar lantern rental businesses; and targets for women’s safe employment in construction

CIF Gender Action Plan FY15-16

CIF Gender Review (2013) found gender-responsive approaches in the CIF could be strengthened to improve project effectiveness and equity outcomes. This was particularly the case for mitigation projects.

CIF Gender Action Plan approved June 2014: Mainstreaming gender in CIF policy and programming through internal policy review, monitoring, analysis, and knowledge and learning.

FY15 study on gender and renewable energy to examine:

benefits, risks & opportunities for women and poor men from both large and small-scale renewable energy across technologies

best practice in targeting, distribution, resettlement; job creation, training; and performance-based incentives for firms.

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