Gender Assessment for E-Mobility Financing Program

The report assesses the gender landscape in India's urban transport and e-mobility sectors to identify barriers for women, such as safety concerns and limited workforce participation. It proposes a Gender Action Plan for a financing platform, focusing on increasing female employment, improving safety infrastructure (like lighting and CCTV), and collecting sex-disaggregated data to mitigate gender-blindness in project design.

• India's gender gap widened from 66.8% in 2019 to 62.5% in 2020, ranking the country 140 out of 156 nations in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021.
• Female literacy in India is 22 percentage points below the world average, with nearly one third of women (34.2%) being illiterate compared to 17.6% of men.
• Women in India experience a significant disproportion in unpaid domestic work, spending up to 352 minutes per day on such tasks, which is 577% more than the 52 minutes spent by men.
• Climate change and pollution disproportionately affect women in India; for example, women are more vulnerable to roadway emissions due to reduced lung function caused by indoor air pollution from biomass fuels used for cooking.
• Urban transport planning in India is often 'gender blind,' failing to account for the fact that women's travel patterns differ from men's, as women tend to combine multiple destinations in one trip while men primarily travel to and from work.
• Safety is a critical barrier to mobility for women in India; 91% of women in a survey of 20 cities felt public transport was very unsafe or somewhat unsafe, and 85.4% of women in a Delhi study feared violent physical attack or rape.
• The transportation sector in India is heavily male-dominated, with a 2005 study showing only 6.85% of women were employed in the sector compared to 19% of men.
• The proposed e-mobility financing platform will implement gender mainstreaming through specific interventions, including providing internships for young women in e-mobility financing and requiring counterparties to install surveillance cameras and safety features at charging points.
• A key objective for the program is to address the lack of sex-disaggregated data in the e-mobility sector by designing robust collection plans for each sub-project to identify risks and opportunities.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2022). Gender Assessment for E-Mobility Financing Program. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp186-ga.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Gender Assessment for E-Mobility Financing Program. 2022. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp186-ga.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2022gender, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Gender Assessment for E-Mobility Financing Program}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2022}, month = apr, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp186-ga.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }