Climate Investor 2: A Gender Assessment

The report assesses how climate change exacerbates gender inequalities in three infrastructure sectors: WASH, coastal/marine ecosystems, and ports. It finds that women and girls bear a disproportionate burden of inadequate WASH services and are largely excluded from formal employment and decision-making in the blue economy and port operations. The document proposes a Gender Action Plan for Climate Fund Managers (CFM) to improve access, amplify women's voices in planning, create formal employment opportunities, and implement robust gender-disaggregated monitoring.

• Women and girls are disproportionately affected by inadequate WASH infrastructure due to their domestic and care-giving roles, which often require them to travel long distances to collect water, increasing their risk of violence and limiting time for education or productive activities.
• Climate change exacerbates WASH challenges by reducing water availability and damaging infrastructure, which increases the domestic burden on women and heightens risks of waterborne diseases and mental health stressors like anxiety and depression.
• In the fishery and ocean-based industries, women are concentrated in informal, unregulated economies and less profitable parts of the value chain, often earning significantly less than men for the same work.
• Women are largely excluded from the formal operation and management of port infrastructure, with female trainees representing only 6% of participants in 2021.
• Gender norms frequently silence women's voices in the planning and management of WASH and marine initiatives, even when formal consultation mechanisms exist.
• There is a systemic lack of women in technical and managerial roles within the WASH sector, partly due to low rates of secondary and tertiary education completion for girls in several focal countries.
• National policies in the 19 focal countries often reference gender as a cross-cutting issue but frequently lack concrete, practical actions to operationalize gender-inclusive environments in the WASH sector.
• Climate change is expected to disproportionately impact women's food security and livelihoods through rising sea temperatures, sea levels, and ocean acidity, as women often have fewer resources to adapt.
• The report identifies four primary opportunity areas for promoting gender equality: improving access to climate-smart WASH, giving women a voice in planning, providing formal employment, and building a gender-responsive evidence base.
• CFM intends to implement a monitoring framework using gender-disaggregated KPIs linked to UN SDGs, including the number of female employees and those in management positions.

APA

Hughes, C., Cavill, S., Keega, M., Plank, G., Murray, G., Schuttenbelt, D., & Tully, V. (2022). Climate Investor 2: A Gender Assessment. Green Climate Fund. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp190-ga.pdf

Chicago

Hughes, Claire, Sue Cavill, Martha Keega, Georgia Plank, George Murray, Daan Schuttenbelt, and Victoria Tully. Climate Investor 2: A Gender Assessment. Green Climate Fund, 2022. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp190-ga.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{hughes2022climate, author = {Hughes, Claire and Cavill, Sue and Keega, Martha and Plank, Georgia and Murray, George and Schuttenbelt, Daan and Tully, Victoria}, title = {{Climate Investor 2: A Gender Assessment}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2022}, month = sep, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp190-ga.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }