Gender Assessment

The report outlines the Green Guarantee Company's (GGC) framework for integrating gender equality and women's empowerment into its credit guarantee operations for green bonds and loans. It assesses gender vulnerabilities in five key sectors—energy, transport, buildings/cities, health/food/water security, and infrastructure—and provides high-level profiles for eight target countries. The document details a seven-step Transaction Selection Process (TSP) designed to ensure that guaranteed projects are gender-responsive, including rigorous due diligence, remediation strategies, and the use of a multidisciplinary 'line of defence' consisting of internal and external gender specialists.

• The GGC identifies five primary results areas for its guarantees: energy access and power generation; low emission transport; buildings, cities, industries and appliances; health, food and water security; and infrastructure and the built environment.
• In the energy sector, women are disproportionately affected by energy poverty, which is linked to poor health outcomes, such as 2.5 million premature deaths worldwide due to household air pollution from cooking smoke.
• Women face significant barriers in the transport sector, including 'multi-purpose' travel patterns that involve shorter, more complex trips for caregiving and domestic tasks, as well as higher risks of sexual violence in transport systems.
• In the agricultural sector, women constitute at least half of the global workforce but have significantly less access to land, owning only 15% compared to 85% for men.
• The GGC has established a seven-step Transaction Selection Process (TSP) to screen projects, which includes: Transaction Origination, Initial Screening and Categorisation (using a Red, Amber, Green checklist), Review and Challenge, Due Diligence, Remediation and Disclosure, Monitoring & Evaluation Strategy, and Approval.
• The GGC employs a 'multidisciplinary lines of defence' approach to manage gender risks, utilizing an internal Gender/E&S Specialist, an Impact Committee Gender/E&S Specialist, and in-country Gender/E&S Consultants.
• Country assessments reveal diverse gender landscapes: Rwanda is noted for high political representation of women (55.7% of parliamentary seats), while India faces significant challenges in economic participation and health, ranking 140 out of 156 in the 2021 Global Gender Gap Index.
• The GGC requires project owners to implement a survivor-centred, gender-responsive grievance redress mechanism that provides confidentiality and protects complainants from retaliation.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2022). Gender Assessment. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/ga-fp197.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Gender Assessment. 2022. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/ga-fp197.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2022gender, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Gender Assessment}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2022}, month = oct, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/ga-fp197.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }