Water supply & sanitation

Examples of gender-smart climate finance indicators for the sustainable water supply and sanitation sector include:

Direct criteria

  • Women-owned or women-founded water and wastewater businesses accessing climate finance to adopt climate mitigation/adaptation practices

  • Share of women in senior management or share of women on the Board in water and wastewater companies or in funds* that have adopted climate mitigation and adaptation practices

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

  • Share of women in the workforce accessing green jobs in the water supply and sanitation sector

    AND

    Reskilling/upskilling programs to develop ‘green skills’ to access jobs in the water supply and sanitation sector

  • A product or service that specifically targets or benefits women that is climate-aligned, such as access to clean water for domestic or productive use

Indirect criteria

  • On-lending facilities: percent of the DFI loan proceeds supporting water and wastewater companies that meet BOTH the climate-finance and the 2X direct criteria

    Funds: percent of portfolio companies that are in the water and wastewater sector and that meet BOTH the climate-finance and 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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