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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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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…
06 09 2021

Agents of Change: Key Takeaways from the Leadership and Diversity Program for Regulators Scholars

Despite recent progress in overall financial inclusion, women in emerging markets continue to have little access to insurance services and climate and disaster risk reduction financing products. In light of these persisting barriers, the InsuResilience Global Partership, together with Access to Insurance…
01 06 2021

Announcement: Canada commits financing for the scale-up of the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions 

The InsuResilience Global Partnership is pleased to announce a financing agreement with the Government of Canada for the advancement of activities under the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions (‘the Centre of Excellence’).    Canada has committed 1.6 million Canadian dollars to the Centre of Excellence over the coming…
07 12 2020

It’s time to kick-off the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender Smart Solutions!

Within the scope of the InsuResilience Global Partnership (the Partnership) Annual Forum held virtually between 7 – 11 December 2020, the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence for Gender-smart Solutions has kicked-off…
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Guidance Notes

Step by Step Guidance: How to translate international commitments into action to achieve gender-smart Climate Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance Solutions

  This guidance note aims to provide practical step-by-step guidance on how to translate international commitments relevant to improving the gender-responsiveness of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) solutions into action at the national and institutional level. These international commitments include the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement; the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
Policy Report

The Nexus between International Gender and Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance Frameworks to support with National Action

  Gender-smart Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance(CDRFI) lies at the convergence of multiple international and national policy priorities and commitments. Internationally, these include the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement; the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (the Sendai Framework).…
Country Case Study

Gender and Climate Risk Transfer in Agriculture, Biodiversity, and Forestry

  Across the globe, climate risks affect men and women in different ways. Climate-related impacts such as droughts, floods, storms, or heat waves are not only physical phenomena but have socioeconomic dimensions as well. They heighten existing vulnerabilities and inequalities and expose gaps in safety nets, resources, access, and information. Therefore, it is vital to manage climate risks in a…
Working Paper & Policy Brief

Women’s leadership and gender equality in climate action and disaster risk reduction in Africa – A call for action

In the last decade, climate and weather-related disasters and extreme events have risen disproportionately in both incidence and gravity in Africa, making it one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. The impacts on food security and levels of poverty are expected to be significant, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where the majority of the population still relies on agriculture…
News article & Blog

World Food Programme (WFP) insures indigenous women in Guatemala against drought and heavy rains

  Across Latin America and the Caribbean, millions of people are vulnerable to frequent and extreme climate-related disasters. Access to finance is essential in helping them to offset the worst effects of these. In Guatemala, the most notable recent examples were the hurricanes Eta and Iota, which struck in November 2020, causing landslides and floods that claimed lives, destroyed property,…
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…