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Gender Transformative Mechanism in the Context of Climate Adaptation (GTM)
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Women’s empowerment at the nexus of innovative finance, climate adaptation and results-based programming
IFAD’s Gender Transformative Mechanism in the Context of Climate Adaptation (GTM) is an innovative initiative that integrates rural women’s empowerment with climate adaptation.
The GTM unlocks finance to incentivise governments to equip rural women with the information, practices, and technologies they need to adapt to climate change, while also strengthening institutional capacity to implement and monitor related programmes.
Plugging into existing IFAD-financed projects, the GTM offers additional investments for elevated results at the intersection of women's empowerment and climate adaptation. It provides a tailored programme of support, operating at three levels: project-level interventions, government and institutional capacity-building, and global evidence-building and knowledge-sharing.
By 2030, the GTM aims to empower over 20 million rural people across 20 countries.
What makes the GTM unique?
- A pioneering solution at the gender-climate nexus: The GTM is one of the first initiatives primarily aimed at integrating approaches to women’s empowerment and climate adaptation – and it is doing so at scale, marking a unique opportunity to close the gender gap in climate finance.
- An impactful delivery modality: The GTM leverages IFAD’s unique mandate as both an international financial institution (IFI) and UN specialized agency by combining the vast scale and outreach of IFAD-financed projects with targeted grant resources to deepen women's empowerment results.
- An innovative partnership approach: The GTM offers tailored and structured programmes of institutional strengthening and capacity development for government bodies that serve as implementing partners for IFAD-funded projects (i.e., Ministry of Agriculture), ensuring national ownership and sustainability of results.
- Effective policy engagement: The GTM invests in building rigorous knowledge and evaluation capacities to support evidence-based policy dialogue.
- Results-based financing: GTM grant investments are tied to the achievement of a predetermined set of results. This represents a paradigm shift for work on women’s empowerment, building a culture of results through an emphasis on incentives rather than compliance.
Facts
- Women farmers receive as little as 10 per cent of total agricultural finance.
- 0.01 per cent of global finance supports projects addressing both climate change and women's empowerment.
- Female-headed households experience higher income losses due to climate variability compared to male-headed households.
- Four out of five people displaced by climate-disasters are women.
- Just 4 per cent of official development assistance (ODA) is estimated to be dedicated to programmes with gender equality as the principal objective.
- Closing gender gaps in farm productivity and wages would boost global GDP by nearly US $1 trillion and reduce the number of food-insecure people by 45 million.
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Beatrice Gerli
Senior Technical Specialist (GTM Coordinator), Gender, Targeting and Social Inclusion
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