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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.

About the Centre of Excellence

The Platform delivers on four pillars

Knowledge & Evidence

Aggregates research on gender –sensitive, -responsive, and -transformative approaches to Climate and

Guidance

Collates guidance notes, tools and toolkits to support policy makers and practitioners with implemen

Opportunity

Promotes information on relevant training opportunities and resources which aim to advance gender eq

Community

A platform for collaboration on gender-specific approaches to enhance the development of Climate and
News
30 12 2022

Scholarship for the Leadership and Diversity Program for Regulators 2022/23

The InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions (CoE) and Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii), are once again jointly sponsoring the participation of an insurance supervisor and a high-potential woman…
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…
Events
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Mar

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…
Recent Documents
Country Case Study, Study

Gender and Poverty-related Barriers of the Urban Poor to access Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance: Evidence from the Mahila Housing Trust in India

Climate change is predicted to have a significant impact on global poverty levels. According to a World Bank report, climate change is projected to push up to 132 million additional people into extreme poverty by 2030. This is due to the fact that many of the people who are living in poverty are also the ones who are most vulnerable…
Toolkits, Tools

Toolkit for Policymakers: A gender-responsive approach for Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI)

This toolkit provides a gender-smart Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (CDRFI) policy self-assessment framework to identify and analyse the extent to which gender considerations are integrated into your country’s CDRFI-related policies and where there are gaps. This analysis can help you to understand the extent to which gender-based differences in behaviour, risks and vulnerabilities between people are considered…
Guidance Notes

Step by Step Guidance: Gender-Lens Investing in Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (CDRFI) Solutions

Gender-smart public and private investments and grants in Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) hold significant potential to strengthen the resilience of developing countries and to protect the lives and livelihoods of poor and vulnerable women and men, and their families from the impact of disasters. This guidance note specifically focuses on the deployment of development finance with…
Guidance Notes

Gender analysis in non-traditional sectors: Climate and disaster risk finance and insurance

Gender analysis was identified as the fundamental starting point for gender mainstreaming in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action and the 1997 agreed conclusions of the UN Economic and Social Council. It constitutes the first and foundational requirement of all efforts to mainstream gender equality perspectives into all work of the UN system. Gender analysis is now commonly embedded in…
Report

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…