Request for Proposals: Gender-Responsive Climate Blended Finance Research Project

The CC Facility Learning Hub is seeking to build upon the knowledge within its inaugural report on gender-responsive blended climate finance transactions in the energy sector, through engaging with a local institute to collaborate on the design and implementation of a research project (“the project”).

The project will inform key data gaps in the gender-climate nexus, specifically within the blended climate finance market.

Growing evidence points to women playing a critical role in achieving climate goals, acting as benefit-multipliers and important agents of change at all levels of society. There is thus an urgent need to leverage their roles as consumers, workers, borrowers, entrepreneurs, and community leaders and increase investments into transactions that incorporate both gender and climate considerations.

Yet, mainstreaming gender in climate vehicles often encounters a myriad of barriers. This is apparent in the blended finance market, where out of the 551 climate blended finance deals in Convergence’s Historical Deals Database (HDD), only 22% were gender-responsive, a considerably lower proportion than the overall trend in the blended finance market where 31% of the deals were gender-responsive.

The project will therefore consist of conducting research with the goal of helping to mobilize higher levels of private sector capital into gender responsive climate transactions.

Key details:

• Deadline: 17 December 2024
• Budget: CAD 50,000-75,000
• Research must be related to the climate-gender nexus within the blended finance market and address a current knowledge gap
• Applicants are required to be institutions based in an emerging market and developing economy (EMDE)
• Language: English

Click here to view the Request for Proposal (RFP) for details.