Gender Assessment

The document establishes a programmatic gender approach for the &Green Fund, which aims to delink deforestation from commodity supply chains (livestock, palm oil, soy, rubber, cocoa, and forestry). It defines a two-tracked investment strategy—gender-sensitive and gender-transformative—integrated into the fund's due diligence and monitoring processes. The report provides detailed gender and socioeconomic baselines for 11 countries, highlighting systemic barriers such as limited land tenure for women, unpaid care burdens, and the prevalence of sexual exploitation, abuse, and sexual harassment (SEAH) in agribusiness. It recommends using Environmental and Social Action Plans (ESAPs) as binding loan covenants to ensure equitable benefits and the removal of gender barriers in the target landscapes.

• The &Green Fund employs a two-tracked gender approach: 'gender-sensitive' investments acknowledge different needs without changing the status quo, while 'gender-transformative' investments 'address gender imbalances, changing gendered power relations, and actively building equitable social norms and structures.'
• Gender barriers in agricultural production across target countries include limited access to land, credit, networks, infrastructure, and education, as well as the 'unpaid care economy' which limits women's time for economic incentives.
• Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment (SEAH) and gender-based violence (GbV) are widespread in agribusiness across all value chain levels, from primary production and processing to logistics and the home.
• In the Brazilian soy sector, women make up only 10% of the labour force, earn approximately 25% less than men, and spend nearly 75% more time on domestic and care work.
• In Indonesia's palm oil industry, women and children are often forced to work without pay to help men meet production targets, and women are frequently restricted to dangerous tasks such as spraying pesticides.
• In the Democratic Republic of Congo, women face extreme land ownership restrictions, with less than 10% of women being landowners, and only 2% of women accessing credit.
• In Liberia, gender-based violence is highly prevalent, with 60% of women aged 15-49 having experienced physical violence and 9% having experienced sexual violence.
• In Zambia, women provide 70% of agricultural labour but suffer from insecure land tenure, which leads to a reduction in the adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices.
• In Côte d'Ivoire, the cocoa value chain is heavily gendered; women's roles in production are largely unrecognised, and they face a 60% illiteracy rate in cocoa-producing households.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2023). Gender Assessment. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp212-gender-assessment.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Gender Assessment. 2023. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp212-gender-assessment.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2023gender, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Gender Assessment}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2023}, month = jul, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp212-gender-assessment.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }