Commitments in Action: Direct Investment in Indigenous Women to Advance Climate Resilience

The event will feature an engaging panel discussion with cross-sector representatives of Indigenous Women’s movement, the feminist climate justice advocates, and donor community to
amplify the voices for making climate finance directly accessible to Indigenous Women. Indigenous Women´s leadership in preserving ecosystems, managing natural resources, and
implementing climate adaptation strategies is indispensable. Yet, they remain systematically marginalized and excluded from accessing resources. This exclusion results from multiple
barriers, including structural inequalities, exclusion from decision-making spaces, and insufficient gender-responsive climate financial instruments. The climate finance mechanisms and climate philanthropy are ridden with complex bureaucracies, limiting the direct access of Indigenous Women. Majority of climate finance also continues to flow through intermediaries such as big INGOS, UN entities and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) who often invests in large scale mitigation projects instead of funding climate adaptation or locally led initiatives. Therefore, without direct access to climate finance, Indigenous Women face significant challenges in scaling climate adaptation and mitigation efforts.

Therefore, we are convening at COP29 which sets a new climate finance goal, to discuss and recommend way forward for making resources available to Indigenous Women which empowers
the self determination of Indigenous Women in taking climate action.
Objective
• Assess the current status of climate finance mechanisms and existing gaps, particularly in ensuring direct funding to Indigenous Women
• Discuss pathways to create more inclusive, equitable, accessible and direct climate finance models to close the finance gap
• Foster collaboration among funders to scale up financial support for Indigenous women’s climate project.

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