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As the IFIs step up investments in environmentally-controversial
infrastructure projects such as fossil-fuel generating extractive
industries and manage increasingly larger climate investment
funds, Gender Action is addressing their gender impacts. Our
gender,
international finance and climate change link provides
resources on the gender impacts of IFI and commercial bank
investments in sectors heavily impacted by climate change:
such as agriculture, health, post-conflict and post-disaster
reconstruction. The Link offers suggestions for improving
gender justice in the face of climate change and ‘dirty’
IFI investments. The Link is not just a briefing; it is also
a tool for cooperative action between international finance
watchers, climate change and gender justice activists. Furthermore,
in China, one of the largest IFI borrowers for infrastructure
investments, Gender Action is providing capacity building
for local partners to hold IFIs accountable for the impacts
of their projects on gender and climate change. See our IFI
Gender Audit and Advocacy: A Toolkit for Chinese Civil Society
Organizations.
Publications
Broken Promises:
Gender Impacts of the World Bank-Financed West-African and Chad-Cameroon Pipelines
Sonia Lowman
September 2011
Based on fieldwork done with Friends of the Earth member groups in Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo and Ghana, Broken Promises reveals that the Chad-Cameroon and West African pipelines, financed by the World Bank, increased women's poverty and dependence on men; caused ecological degradation that destroyed women's livelihoods; discriminated against women in employment and compensation; excluded women in consultation processes; and led to increased prostitution.
Governing Climate Funds:
What Will Work for Women?
Elizabeth Arend & Sonia Lowman
September 2011
As the international community mobilizes in response to global climate changes, climate change mechanisms must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world's most vulnerable populations. Gender Action's new publication, Governing Climate Funds:
What Will Work for Women?, highlights women and girls' disproportionate vulnerability to negative climate change impacts in developing countries, and demonstrates how they have been largely excluded from climate change finance policies and programs. The report examines two climate funds and two non-climate funds in order to learn how gender can be better integrated in global climate finance mechanisms. We show that women and girls must not only be included in adaptive and mitigative activities, but also recognized as agents of change who are essential to the success of climate change interventions.
Doubling
the Damage: World Bank Climate Investment Funds Undermine
Climate and Gender Justice
Anna Rooke
This new paper is a first-look examining how the new World
Bank-administered Climate Investment Funds will impact both
climate and gender justice.
Empty
Promises: Gender Scorecard of World Bank-managed Post-Tsunami
Reconstruction in Indonesia
Suzanna Dennis and Warisha Yunus
September 2008
Boom-Time Blues:
Big Oil’s Gender Impacts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and
Sakhalin
A Report by Gender Action and CEE Bankwatch Network, September
2006
Based on research and analysis by Fidanka Bacheva, Manana
Kochladze and Suzanna Dennis
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