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Examples of gender-smart climate finance indicators for the sustainable energy sector include:

Direct criteria

  • Women-owned or women-founded companies in sustainable energy (e.g. on and off-grid renewable energy, energy efficiency)

  • Share of women in senior management or share of women on the Board in sustainable energy companies or in funds*

    * For funds this also covers the share of women in the Investment Committee

  • Share of women in the workforce accessing green jobs in sustainable energy (e.g. in a solar home system distribution company)

    AND

    Programmes to access jobs and enhance employment benefits in the sustainable energy sector (e.g. gender-sensitive recruitment, flexible working, encouragement of paternity leave)

  • Women consumers of Pay-As-You-Go solar home products

Indirect criteria

  • On-lending facilities: percent of the DFI loan proceeds going to sustainable energy companies that meet the 2X direct criteria

    Funds: percent of portfolio companies that are in the sustainable energy sector and that meet the 2X direct criteria

    ** For investments through financial intermediaries, it is assumed that the investment already qualifies under the climate-finance criteria used by the investor

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