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The InsuResilience Global Partnership’s High-Level Consultative Group endorses Declaration on Gender

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Welcome to the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions!

Your online repository of information and knowledge-exchange platform on gender-related aspects in the area of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI).

The InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions will enable you to find out how to create gender-transformative action on the ground by accessing the latest knowledge, provide hands-on guidance, inform you on exciting opportunities and bring you closer to a vivid community that is re-thinking gender-inclusiveness.

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The Platform delivers on the four pillars:

Knowledge & Evidence

Aggregates research on gender –sensitive, -responsive, and -transformative approaches to Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance in order to build an evidence-base of emerging good practices and effective strategies.

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Guidance

Collates guidance notes, tools and toolkits to support policy makers and practitioners with implementing gender-smart solutions across their work.

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Opportunity

Promotes information on relevant training opportunities and resources which aim to advance gender equality such as leadership training, funding and scholarship opportunities, plus many more.

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Community

A platform for collaboration on gender-specific approaches to enhance the development of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance solutions and management of information. To this end, the Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions will host online and in person events and create an online portal for dialogue, through the InsuResilience Risk Talk tool and other reputable platforms.

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14 07 2022

Call for Applications: Advisory Support on gender-smart Monitoring & Evaluation

  Apply now   Gender considerations play a key role across the value chain of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI). If designed and implemented in a ‘gender-smart’…
23 06 2022

Technical Advisory Facility on Gender-smart Solutions

Apply for targeted advice on how to scale up gender-smart Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance Solutions Gender differences play a crucial role at every step of a climate…
15 03 2022

The InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions received the GIZ Gender Award

The InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions (CoE), co-financed by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Global Affairs Canada, has been awarded the second prize…
23 11 2021

Mahila Housing Trust showcasing the Cooperation with the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions at COP26, High-level UK Presidency Event

At the high-level UK Presidency headline event on Gender Day, ‘Advancing Gender Equality in Climate Action’ at COP26 in Glasgow, our InsuResilience Global Partnership and Gender Working Group member – Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (MHT) – represented the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on…
23 11 2021

The InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions celebrates its official launch at COP26

The InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions has been fully launched at COP26 in Glasgow!   The first of its kind, the Centre of Excellence (CoE) is a platform for information and knowledge-sharing. ‘This great achievement is the product of a year…
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Community-Based Micro-Financing and Small Enterprises

The private sector has a key role to play in driving sustainable development. Micro, small and medium enterprises account for 90 percent of the private sector and more than 50 percent of employment globally. As such the sector provides an opportunity for innovative, inclusive and sustainable economic development. The Small Grants Programme facilitates partnerships between civil society, community-based organizations and…
Report

Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: Progress and promising examples

NAP Global Network Synthesis Report, 2021–2022 This document is the third in a series of synthesis reports that assess progress on gender-responsive approaches in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes at the global level. It coincides with the midpoint of the Gender Action Plan under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), making this a good moment to reflect…
Policy Report, Report

Climate resilience and disaster risk analysis for gender-sensitive value chains

  The purpose of this publication is to facilitate gender analysis in value chain operations, considering climate change effects, in order to enhance adaptive capacities of value chain actors. It aims to facilitate the analysis of the factors that determine gender-differentiated vulnerability to climate change and risks. It is intended for use by practitioners and service providers, including governments, civil…
Country Case Study

Strengthening gender equality and resilience through innovative climate-risk finance

As the ASEAN region experiences more heat waves, droughts, storms and rising sea levels, women are impacted most. This is because women are typically in charge of feeding their family, have less control over land and property, and less access to credit, insurance, information, and government support. Women in agriculture are paid less than men, have less access to education,…
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Incorporating Gender at the Core of Risk Management and Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance

Women and men face the same climate-related hazards, but often very different risks and impacts. This includes direct economic losses and damages, but also non-economic, informal, and unrecorded losses and damages, gender-based violence, or impacts on health, mental and emotional wellbeing, or displacement and climate-induced migration. In many cases, these differential risks and impacts are connected to women’s roles in…
Events
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LIVE TALK 03: How to implement gender-related Climate Risk Finance commitments and strategies on the ground?

Explore how gender-responsive Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) lies at the intersection of various international policy commitments and agendas and where there…