This blog explores how FinEquity members’ strategies are responding to the cross-sectoral implications of climate risks, especially when it comes to looking at the way financial services can enable the adaption and resilience-building efforts of women and girls. It reveals several insights on relevant shifts in donor and NGO priorities that prioritize cross-sectoral strategic approaches.

This blog by Women's World Banking, explores how women are bearing the brunt of climate change crises, why financial access is essential for fostering women’s and girls’ resilience and prosperity and how for gender-responsive financial approaches to be most effective, they must be supplemented by non-financial interventions.

This blog summarizes cross-cutting findings from a series of case studies highlighting Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), Village Enterprise’s and SEWA’s climate-smart innovations from the FinEquity Community that use financial coupled with non-financial interventions that are seeing to improve women’s resilience to climate events. What are we learning?

This report aims to contribute to discussions on increasing the access of local governments and cities to climate finance and help them understand various financing instruments and sources available to them to meet climate investment needs. 

Climate insurance is crucial for building resilience and providing financial protection against climate shocks, but it cannot effectively function in isolation. This blog analyzes how the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India works with low-income communities using a comprehensive approcach in integrating insurance with complementary financial and non-financial services.

This blog is part of a FinEquity blog series highlighting how organizations in the Community of Practice are thinking about improving women’s resilience to climate events through inclusive finance, analyzing some recent trends, and providing some recommendations for those supporting innovators on this journey.

IFC is establishing the country’s first risk sharing facilities with two Armenian banks and providing a loan to a third for on-lending to micro and smaller businesses.

ClimaCash+ offers a simple, fast, and relevant lifeline to communities impacted by climate events.

This Brief is part of a series of case studies documenting work done by FinEquity community members to increase women’s climate resilience.

This Brief is part of a series of case studies documenting work done by community members to increase women’s climate resilience, with the hope to inspire financial service providers and other stakeholders to start addressing the specific financial service needs of women in the face of climate change.