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The SIRF Fund Gender-Responsive Blended Financing Window Synthesis Report
Evaluates Antigua and Barbuda's Sustainable Island Resource Framework Fund, demonstrating how blended finance vehicles can deliver gender-responsive climate resilience projects across the Eastern Caribbean.
Report13 March 2024
Back to all storiesThe SIRF Fund Gender-Responsive Blended Financing Window: Synthesis Report
As an island nation, Antigua and Barbuda is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and, despite recent classification as a middle-income country, pockets of poverty heighten this risk for some parts of society. Recognising this challenge, the Sustainable Island Resource Framework (SIRF) Fund was established in 2019 as a financial vehicle to deliver climate and environment-related projects and programmes both domestically and across the Eastern Caribbean. Read More
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