On 20 and 21 May 2026, AFI and the International Climate Initiative (IKI, a German government body) co-hosted an online event on the theme of gender and climate financing.

The meeting, organized by the IKI Gender Community of Practice, was designed to share insight with IKI implementing organizations on how to embed gender equality, women’s empowerment, and financial inclusion considerations into climate projects.

AFI staff provided learnings from the network’s decade-long experience in working on Inclusive Green Finance, where gender considerations have been embedded from the outset.

“Women are key economic actors in climate adaptation, growth, and resilience,” said Johanna Nyman, AFI’s Head of Inclusive Green Finance. “Among the areas we discussed today were the importance of collecting sex-disaggregated data to inform policymaking, and which kind of policies and initiatives serve to encourage green lending to women-led businesses.”

The Stockholm Environment Institute also shared learnings from their Inclusive Climate Finance for Vulnerable Communities in Asia-Pacific project, which aims to enhance international and national private and public climate finance flows to climate-vulnerable communities. 

Since 2018, IKI has supported AFI’s Inclusive Green Finance workstream. You can learn about IKI’s work to promote climate action and biodiversity conservation on their website.