Climate Gender Equity Fund – Funding Portal
Information on CGEF funding opportunities and the application process can be accessed here.
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Climate Gender Equity Fund (CGEF)
Women and girls are powerful change agents in designing and leading climate solutions for their communities–women are innovators, leaders, entrepreneurs, workers, and customers in climate-related fields. Women and girls, especially from underrepresented and marginalized groups, are also disproportionately affected by natural and climate disasters given that they represent the majority of the world’s poor and are proportionally more dependent upon threatened natural resources. Yet, in the broader climate finance ecosystem, gender equity is often poorly integrated or not incorporated at all. While climate finance flows amounted to more than $600 billion in 2021, only 2 percent integrated a gender lens–a huge shortfall in the finance needed to catalyze inclusive climate-related solutions.
In 2022, the Climate Gender Equity Fund (CGEF) was launched to catalyze gender equity in climate finance around the world. CGEF is an innovative public-private partnership among Amazon, Reckitt, Skoll Foundation, The UPS Foundation, Visa Foundation, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that seeks to increase access to climate finance for women-led and women-benefiting organizations globally. CGEF’s grantmaking is managed by 2X Global, a globally recognized thought leader and catalyst for tangible action at the nexus of gender and climate finance.
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CGEF is one of the first major activities under USAID’s Sustainable Investment Accelerator (SIA), USAID’s flagship initiative to increase investment in green, resilient projects and enterprises in emerging economies. To receive updates and partnership opportunities regarding CGEF, please join the Sustainable Finance Investment Network (SFIN) or reach out to CGEFinfo@CFDAccelerator.com. Please note that all requests for proposals (RFPs) under CGEF are managed directly by 2X Global, and thus all questions on RFPs should be directed to 2X Global per the instructions on their website.
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The Sustainable Finance Investment Network brings together a diverse set of finance seekers, finance providers, and other ecosystem actors from a variety of sectors and markets to cultivate partnerships, learning, and increased investment in sustainable solutions.
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Meet the CGEF Grantees
CGEF awards grants to local women-led and women-benefiting intermediaries that are best placed to meet the capacity, networks, and finance needs of women leading climate solutions in their communities. CGEF grantees include emerging women-led funds and investment vehicles as well as business support intermediaries such as incubators and accelerators.
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USAID launched the Climate Gender Equity Fund at COP27 to harness the power of public-private partnerships to close the gender-climate finance gap.
