Gender Assessment

The ACAP Gender Assessment identifies systemic gender inequalities in Pakistan's agricultural sector, where women provide essential but largely unpaid and unrecognized labor while facing severe barriers to land ownership, credit, and education. The report highlights that Pakistan ranks first in Asia on a climate-agriculture-gender inequality hotspot index, leaving rural women particularly vulnerable to climate disasters. To address this, ACAP intends to apply a gender lens to its investments using 2X Challenge criteria, provide technical assistance for female farmers, and require portfolio companies to implement Gender Action Plans and SEAH (sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment) protections.

• Pakistan is ranked as the top country in Asia on a climate-agriculture-gender inequality hotspot index, which identifies areas where climate hazards, women's agricultural involvement, and gender inequalities intersect.
• Women are central to Pakistan's agrarian economy, with 65% of the female labor force employed in agriculture, yet almost all of this work is unpaid and unrecognized.
• Severe disparities exist in resource ownership and financial access; only 4% of landowners in Pakistan are women, and women-managed farms are 30% less productive than those managed by men.
• Climate disasters disproportionately affect women because they lack land ownership, which excludes them from government relief measures like crop insurance schemes.
• Women face significant barriers to formal employment and entrepreneurship, with only 1% of entrepreneurs in Pakistan being women and 68% of female borrowers requiring a male relative's permission for loans.
• Educational gaps are stark, with girls averaging 3.9 years of schooling compared to 6.4 for boys, and only 13% of girls remaining in school by ninth grade.
• ACAP will implement a gender-smart investment strategy using 2X Challenge criteria and will require portfolio companies to adopt Gender Action Plans and survivor-centered SEAH grievance mechanisms.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2023). Gender Assessment. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp229-g-assessment.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Gender Assessment. 2023. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp229-g-assessment.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2023gender, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Gender Assessment}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2023}, month = nov, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp229-g-assessment.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }