| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 8.00-8.30 |
Registration |
| 8.30-9.00 |
Welcome note for the strategic planning discussion on gender and climate change |
| 9.00-10.00 |
Session G1: Gender and climate change financing – Why does it matter? This session will seek to bring all participants onto the same page with respect to understanding the importance of linking gender and climate change financing. It will begin with a roundup and definition of the key interrelated concepts. |
| 10.00–10.30 |
Break during the session |
| 10.30–12.00 |
Session G2: Voices from the field - Sharing experiences on what is already being done to ensure gender-responsive climate change financing This session will provide opportunity for participants from different countries to share gender-related approaches from their respective jurisdictions, and to compare and learn. Representatives of participating countries will be requested to share their experiences (what has worked and what hasn't) and what bottlenecks are challenging gender-equitable climate change financing. |
| 12.00–13.00 |
Lunch |
| 13.00–13.30 |
Session G2: Voices from the field (cont.) This session will provide opportunity for participants from different countries to share gender-related approaches from their respective jurisdictions, and to compare and learn. Representatives of participating countries will be requested to share their experiences (what has worked and what hasn't) and what bottlenecks are challenging gender-equitable climate change financing. |
| 13.30-14.30 |
Session G3: Inclusive and participatory climate change financing This session will encourage participants to explore and share perspectives on best strategies and approaches that could be used to further contribute to a more gender-equitable climate change financing. |
| 14.30-15.30 |
Session G4: Impact, effectiveness and accountability of climate change This session will explore the impact and effectiveness of climate finance, and different mechanisms of accountability. |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Break |
| 16.00-17.00 |
Session G5: Accessing international finance through a gender equality and climate change focus This session will seek to explore the international finance mechanisms that exist and how to leverage gender equality to access international finance. |
| 17.00-17.15 |
Closing session for Gender Day |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 8.00–8.30 |
Registration |
| 8.30-10.00 |
Opening Plenary: Overview on climate change finance: flows, systems and impacts The opening plenary will set the objectives of the meeting and present an overview of the state of climate change finance in the region including the various opportunities and gaps emerging in the domains of climate change finance flows, systems and impact in the region. |
| 10.00-10.30 |
Break |
| 10.30–12.00 |
Session 2: Integrating climate change in domestic budgets: What is the progress? This session will explore examples of the ways in which climate change has been integrated into countries' domestic budget processes. As observed in several of the countries, importance of issues such as gender and poverty have also been recognized and integrated into the climate change investments and budget processes. This will be explored further and concrete examples and tools of looking at gender responsive climate change budgets will be discussed. |
| 12.00-13.00 |
Lunch |
13.00–14.30 |
Session 3: Mainstreaming climate change into planning and budgeting of sectoral domains Mainstreaming adaptation within sectoral domains is being recognized as the sustainable and scalable solution for climate proofing growth and development. Hence this session will explore the experiences of various approaches to mainstreaming adaptation using a variety of sectoral entry points. |
| 14.30–15.00 |
Break |
| 15.00–17.00 |
Session 4: Accessing and leveraging international climate finance: Do's, don'ts and replicable lessons
|
| 17.00 onward |
South-South Bazaar This session presents an opportunity for participating countries and organizations to showcase informally their success stories and products around incorporating climate change into domestic budgets and seek out opportunities for south-south partnership for future learning and knowledge transfer. |
| 18.00 |
Reception |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9.00–10.30 |
Session 5: Role of policies and institutional reforms in integrating climate change into budget reforms Good policy and regulatory frameworks are the backbone for creating enabling environments in which all actors can access and mainstream climate finance. This session looks at the instruments, institutions, and incentives that have been put in place across the region to achieve this, as well as challenges to their design and practical implementation to “make it happen”. As building sustainable capacities and frameworks is a complex challenge, governments are seeking workable strategies to take forward. Through “good practice” examples of how countries have developed their policy frameworks and institutional set-ups to better manage and attract climate finance, key lessons and pitfalls in comparative perspective are revealed. |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Break |
| 11.00–12.30 |
Session 6: Mainstreaming climate change in domestic budgets at the subnational level Much of the discussion on mainstreaming finance for climate change adaptation is dominated by an examination of entry points at the national level. There is however a small but growing number of examples where these are being implemented at the provincial and local levels too. This session will aim to therefore delve into the dynamics of subnational mainstreaming through discussions with technical experts and policy makers who have been directly involved at the subnational level. |
| 12.30-14.00 |
Extended lunch and networking |
| 14.00-15.30 |
Session 7: Impact, effectiveness and accountability of climate change finance Climate change hits the poorest people the hardest – those living in vulnerable areas with the fewest resources to help them adapt or recover quickly from shocks. Effectiveness of public investments is contingent upon how the priorities and concerns of most vulnerable sections including men, women, children, ethnic minorities amongst others, are understood and addressed. Despite communities at the local level being repositories of knowledge and solutions to development problems, they do not always have the access and capacity to participate in decision-making processes. |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Break |
| 16.00-17.00 |
Closing reflection |
This session will seek to bring all participants onto the same page with respect to understanding the importance of linking gender and climate change financing. It will begin with a roundup and definition of the key interrelated concepts.
This session will provide opportunity for participants from different countries to share gender-related approaches from their respective jurisdictions, and to compare and learn. Representatives of participating countries will be requested to share their experiences (what has worked and what hasn't) and what bottlenecks are challenging gender-equitable climate change financing.
This session will encourage participants to explore and share perspectives on best strategies and approaches that could be used to further contribute to a more gender-equitable climate change financing.
This session will explore the impact and effectiveness of climate finance, and different mechanisms of accountability.
This session will seek to explore the international finance mechanisms that exist and how to leverage gender equality to access international finance.
The opening plenary will set the objectives of the meeting and present an overview of the state of climate change finance in the region including the various opportunities and gaps emerging in the domains of climate change finance flows, systems and impact in the region.
This session will explore examples of the ways in which climate change has been integrated into countries' domestic budget processes. As observed in several of the countries, importance of issues such as gender and poverty have also been recognized and integrated into the climate change investments and budget processes. This will be explored further and concrete examples and tools of looking at gender responsive climate change budgets will be discussed.
Mainstreaming adaptation within sectoral domains is being recognized as the sustainable and scalable solution for climate proofing growth and development. Hence this session will explore the experiences of various approaches to mainstreaming adaptation using a variety of sectoral entry points.
Even though the lion's share of finance for adapting to the impacts of climate change comes from the domestic budgets of governments, international funds for climate change adaptation play a vital role in catalyzing action and innovation for adaptation. Discussions at this session will focus on lessons emerging from accessing international finance.
For countries to meet their NDC targets, and their national adaptation plans, to promote climate-resilient development, private climate finance will need further unlocking and scaling up. This will entail innovating new business models and developing catalytic financing instruments at scale to crowd in both traditional, and non-traditional financial actors. This session will provide an overview of trends in private climate finance and an outlook for the future. Various business ‘models' and innovations in financing to leverage private investment at the ground level will be showcased.
This session presents an opportunity for participating countries and organizations to showcase informally their success stories and products around incorporating climate change into domestic budgets and seek out opportunities for south-south partnership for future learning and knowledge transfer
Good policy and regulatory frameworks are the backbone for creating enabling environments in which all actors can access and mainstream climate finance. This session looks at the instruments, institutions, and incentives that have been put in place across the region to achieve this, as well as challenges to their design and practical implementation to “make it happen”. As building sustainable capacities and frameworks is a complex challenge, governments are seeking workable strategies to take forward. Through “good practice” examples of how countries have developed their policy frameworks and institutional set-ups to better manage and attract climate finance, key lessons and pitfalls in comparative perspective are revealed.
Much of the discussion on mainstreaming finance for climate change adaptation is dominated by an examination of entry points at the national level. There is however a small but growing number of examples where these are being implemented at the provincial and local levels too. This session will aim to therefore delve into the dynamics of subnational mainstreaming through discussions with technical experts and policy makers who have been directly involved at the subnational level.
Climate change hits the poorest people the hardest – those living in vulnerable areas with the fewest resources to help them adapt or recover quickly from shocks. Effectiveness of public investments is contingent upon how the priorities and concerns of most vulnerable sections including men, women, children, ethnic minorities amongst others, are understood and addressed. Despite communities at the local level being repositories of knowledge and solutions to development problems, they do not always have the access and capacity to participate in decision-making processes.
