LettersAIIB must ensure its projects address the interaction of climate change and gender
Readers discuss the impact of the multilateral lender’s projects on women, the role food companies can play in the fight against climate change, and key opinion leaders getting embroiled in scamsBelt and Road InitiativeLettersPublished: 11:30am, 29 Sep, 2023Why you can trust SCMP
Yet the AIIB lacks a stand-alone gender policy and gender experts, which are needed to ensure projects are gender-responsive. While policies alone are insufficient, they are a prerequisite for avoiding harm.
The AIIB’s Environmental and Social Framework that guides loan preparation and implementation ranked weakly in our 2023 report on international financial institutions’ rhetorical gender and climate promises, which surveyed a dozen development banks, for hardly addressing harmful climate change impacts on women.