[Ngo Climate Change] Invitation to Web Chat on Climate Change and Gender - Join Us!

[lsorkin at adb.org]

Dear Colleagues:

Please join us for a special on-line discussion next Wednesday morning 
7:30am - 9am Hanoi time. Details below, Lauren


ADB Web Chat on Gender and Climate Finance

The Asian Development Bank invites members of the climate and development 
community to participate in a web chat on gender and climate finance at 
8:30pm on 25 March in North America EST (-5 GMT) / 12:30am on 26 March GMT 
/ 8:30am on 26 March in Manila:
http://blogs.adb.org/chats/supporting-womens-contribution-fight-against-climate-change

This web chat is organized in the context of ADB's regional technical 
assistance program 'Harnessing Climate Change Mitigation Initiatives to 
Benefit Women' in Viet Nam, Cambodia and Lao PDR which aims to mainstream 
gender into mitigation policies, develop national and local actors' 
capacity to access finance and develop inclusive mitigation action, and 
supports the implementation of 3 gender-responsive pilot projects in the 
region.
For more information on the RETA, please visit: 
http://www.adb.org/projects/45039-001/main

Please take the opportunity to share lessons learned and challenges faced 
in the process of accessing finance for effective, efficient and equitable 
mitigation action and to discuss recent developments in the climate 
finance landscape (including the GCF).
A transcript of the chat will be made available.

Share your views in advance and send your questions by email or through 
Facebook or Twitter.

Topic
Women play a front line role in managing energy, waste, and water 
resources and are uniquely positioned to contribute in the fight against 
climate change. Yet new research funded by the Asian Development Bank 
shows women are rarely considered in the disbursal of multi-million dollar 
global climate funds. In a changing climate finance landscape, how can we 
help women gain better access to finance and national institutions deliver 
it in a more effective, efficient and inclusive way? How can the Green 
Climate Fund and other sources of climate financing reach more women and 
help harness their potential to be agents of change for effective 
mitigation initiatives?

Invitation and Special Guests
Join ADB Social Development Specialist Linda Adams, Viet Nam Country 
Specialist Lauren Sorkin and Climate Finance and Gender Specialist Liane 
Schalatek of the Heinrich Boell Foundation for a discussion on promoting 
climate finance for mitigation measures that benefit women on 26 March 
8:30am Manila time/12:30am GMT/8:30pm on 25 March North American EST (1,5 
hours).

Link
http://blogs.adb.org/chats/supporting-womens-contribution-fight-against-climate-change

Contact
Please direct any organizational questions to Natalie Harms (
nharms at adb.org) or Karen Palmer (kpalmer at adb.org). To submit questions to 
be discussed in the chat, please send an email to: chat at adb.org or send us 
a Facebook or Twitter message.






Lauren N. Sorkin
Country Specialist 
Viet Nam Resident Mission
Asian Development Bank
+84 439 331 374
www.adb.org/vietnam
www.adb.org/Climate-Change
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