PURE Rural Mozambique Climate Project: Driving Mozambique’s climate resilience through energy access and climate-smart Productive Use of Renewable Energy Mozambique

The Gender and Social Inclusion Action Plan (GAP) for the PURE Rural Mozambique Climate Project establishes a framework to address gender-based inequalities in the energy sector. It focuses on mainstreaming gender-transformative interventions across institutional strengthening of FUNAE, mini-grid development, and the deployment of climate-smart PU(R)E solutions. The plan sets specific targets for women's participation, including a goal for 52% of mini-grid and PURE beneficiaries to be women and 15% of local operators to be women. It also implements safeguarding measures against sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH) and gender-based violence (GBV).

• The project aims for broad-based representation of women, youth, and people with disabilities, though it acknowledges that pervasive cultural constraints in Mozambique make demographic-based targets impractical for all indicators.
• Specific gender and social inclusion targets have been set for project beneficiaries and operators, including a target of 52% women for mini-grid and PURE beneficiaries and 15% women for PURE local operators.
• The project will integrate GESI requirements into the procurement and financing of mini-grids, with 5-10% of bid scoring and RBF milestone payments tied to gender and social inclusion considerations.
• Institutional capacity building for FUNAE includes the implementation of a Gender Strategy and Action Plan and the requirement that 100% of governance and accountability structures include gender considerations by the project's end.
• The project establishes strict safeguarding protocols to prevent and address sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH) and gender-based violence (GBV), including a dedicated confidential grievance redress mechanism (GRM) channel.
• To increase women's participation in the PU(R)E sector, the project will target value chain stages where women are already represented, such as vending, marketing, and cooking, and provide targeted vocational and soft skills training.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2026). PURE Rural Mozambique Climate Project: Driving Mozambique’s climate resilience through energy access and climate-smart Productive Use of Renewable Energy Mozambique. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp290-gender-action-plan.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. PURE Rural Mozambique Climate Project: Driving Mozambique’s climate resilience through energy access and climate-smart Productive Use of Renewable Energy Mozambique. 2026. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp290-gender-action-plan.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2026pure, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{PURE Rural Mozambique Climate Project: Driving Mozambique’s climate resilience through energy access and climate-smart Productive Use of Renewable Energy Mozambique}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2026}, month = mar, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp290-gender-action-plan.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }