This document discusses the importance of providing climate finance to support women in vulnerable communities. It notes that women are disproportionately impacted by climate change due to social and cultural factors. It then presents a Climate Finance-Gender Equity Framework to help policymakers take an inclusive approach and examine how climate finance can build women's resilience. The framework assesses projects based on their contextual, procedural, and distributive impacts on women. Finally, the document calls for ensuring women's participation in climate decision-making and providing capacity building and easy access to climate finance.

1. We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support from PROKAS, British Council and UKAID
CLIMATE FINANCE TRANSPARENCY MECHANISM (CFTM)
Access to financial mechanism for women:
Necessity and importance of climate resilient
actions
M. Abdur Rahaman Rana, Director, Climate Change Adaptation
Mitigation Experiment & Training (CAMET) Park
Mahbubur Rahman Apu, Campaign Associate, Network on Climate
Change Bangladesh (NCCB)
rana.bries@gmail.com
SESSION 6: THEMATIC SESSION ON GENDER AND YOUTH FOCUSED
CLIMATE FINANCE
International Conference on Climate Finance (ICCF) 2018

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• Climate change is one of the most
fundamental challenges in the
world.
• World is experiencing form fragile
livelihoods, health impact and
jeopardize well-being of millions
of the poorest people especially
women.
• Marginalized portion of the
developing countries like
Bangladesh are bearing the
burning of the consequences of
climate change.
Climate change, the reality

3. Women are more vulnerable than men due
to gendered factors including:
cultural & religious restrictions
on female mobility
physical and biological
constraints
household burden
Women in Bangladesh can not leave their
houses during disasters because it is
regarded as culturally and religiously
inappropriate.
Women and girls have less capacity and
opportunity than men and boys to prepare
for and adapt to the impacts of climate
change.
CLIMATE FINANCE TRANSPARENCY MECHANISM (CFTM)
Why women?

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Why women?

5. • Gender-just climate finance is most important to
ensure climate resilient women empowerment in the
vulnerable countries.
• The gender-just climate finance approach is important
not only because as a large, influential and self-
propagating group, women could have a huge impact
on the problem.
• It is also important that climate financing make a
special effort to include women because it would help
them navigate out of poverty
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Climate finance as a tool for women resilience

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Resilient
women
Actions
Civil Protections
(Preparedness, response,
recovery, mitigation)
Social Protection
(vulnerability reduction,
social safety nets)
Learning
Risk/loss perception
Problematizing
risk/loss
Critical reflections
Resources &
capacities
Natural/place based
Socio-political
Physical
Human
Investment
Monetary
allocation/Finance
Climate finance as a tool for women resilience

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Climate Resilient Strategies
-Mitigation
-Adaptation
-Disaster Management
Climate finance
Gender-just Dimensions
-Contextual
-Procedural
-Distributive
Resilient Needs
-Practical & strategic needs
-Capacity building
-In kind finance
Other instruments
Resilient Paradigm
Climate Finance-Gender Equity Framework

8. The Climate Finance-Gender Equity Framework can be widely
applied in assessing gender resilient parameters in various
aspects, such as:
• the livelihoods
• food security
• disaster risk reduction
• resilient agriculture
• water security
• social safety net etc.
This framework will enable climate researchers and policy
makers to take an inclusive approach in examining the
CLIMATE FINANCE TRANSPARENCY MECHANISM (CFTM)
Climate Finance-Gender Equity Framework

9. There are three levels of analysis in this resilience framework; they are the
following:
• contextual
• procedural and
• distributive.
Contextual resilience framework will touch on the capacities of women and
examines how existing social and institutional conditions shape women access
to resources.
Procedural resilience framework is concerned with the decision-making
process in participatory space. It highlights inclusion/exclusion, representation
and accountability.
Distributive resilience framework explores how costs, benefits and risks are
shared amongst vulnerable women members and examines elements of
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Climate Finance-Gender Equity Framework

10. Women are not capable to respond to
climate change impacts because of existing
inequalities, they do not have access to
resources to help address the impacts
themselves.
But women are not only more vulnerable to
climate change, they are also often the first
and best line of defense in their
communities.
Women have knowledge and expertise in
coping strategies and can be climate heroes.
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Importance of climate finance for women

11. • Ensure that women are engaged in climate policy making and
planning in order to address their needs.
• Enable easy and, free access to information so that women
are able to participate meaningfully in processes and to
access climate finance
• Promote a gender balance in decision making forums so that
women’s voices are represented
• Enable capacity building of women to improve their access to
climate finance
• Work with communities to better understand their needs
from and use of climate finance
• Create a mechanism for coordination of climate finance that
considers women’s needs and voices
• Create funds for local communities to facilitate quick, easy
access to funding for vulnerable groups
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Process and recommendations on climate finance for women

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13. We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support from PROKAS, British Council and UKAID
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Climate Finance Transparency Mechanism (CFTM) has been initiated in January 2017
and is being implemented by a consortium among the International Centre for
Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), the Centre for Climate Change and
Environmental Research (C3ER), BRAC University and the Bangladesh Centre for
Advanced Studies (BCAS) in association with the British Council.
The CFTM project is an innovative project that would not only enable the funding for
climate change in Bangladesh to be more effective in helping the most vulnerable
communities become better adapted to climate change impacts, but would also help
improve the overall levels of transparency in governance in general in Bangladesh.
The goal of this project is to increase the efficacy of climate change funds both from
government and donors in tackling the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh.