<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Colleagues -- Please start your day with
us tomorrow! 7:30am to 9am Hanoi time. 'Chat' soon, Lauren</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Lauren N. Sorkin<br>
Country Specialist <br>
Viet Nam Resident Mission<br>
Asian Development Bank<br>
+84 439 331 374<br>
</font><a href=www.adb.org/vietnam><font size=2 face="sans-serif">www.adb.org/vietnam</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
</font><a href="www.adb.org/Climate-Change"><font size=2 face="sans-serif">www.adb.org/Climate-Change</font></a>
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<div><font size=4 face="Arial"><b>ADB Web Chat on Gender and Climate Finance</b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">The Asian Development Bank invites members
of the climate and development community to participate in a <b>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:</b></font>
<br><a href="http://blogs.adb.org/chats/supporting-womens-contribution-fight-against-climate-change"><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>http://blogs.adb.org/chats/supporting-womens-contribution-fight-against-climate-change</u></font></a>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">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.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">For more information on the RETA, please
visit: </font><a href="http://www.adb.org/projects/45039-001/main"><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>http://www.adb.org/projects/45039-001/main</u></font></a>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">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).</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">A transcript of the chat will be made available.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Share your views in advance and send your
questions by </font><a href=mailto:chat@adb.org><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>email</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">
or through </font><a href=https://www.facebook.com/AsianDevBank><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>Facebook</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">
or </font><a href=https://twitter.com/ADB_HQ><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>Twitter</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial"><b>Topic</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial"><i>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?</i></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial"><b>Invitation and Special Guests</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial"><i>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
(<u>tbc</u>) 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).</i></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial"><b>Link</b></font>
<br><a href="http://blogs.adb.org/chats/supporting-womens-contribution-fight-against-climate-change"><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>http://blogs.adb.org/chats/supporting-womens-contribution-fight-against-climate-change</u></font></a>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial"><b>Contact</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Please direct any organizational questions
to Natalie Harms (</font><a href=mailto:nharms@adb.org></a><a href=mailto:nharms@adb.org><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>nharms@adb.org</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">)
or Karen Palmer (</font><a href=mailto:kpalmer@adb.org><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>kpalmer@adb.org</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">).
To submit questions to be discussed in the chat, please send an email to:
</font><a href=mailto:chat@adb.org><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>chat@adb.org</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">
or send us a </font><a href=https://www.facebook.com/AsianDevBank><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>Facebook</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">
or </font><a href=https://twitter.com/ADB_HQ><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>Twitter</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">
message.</font>
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