​Gender and Outcome-Based Finance

​Mobilizing Capital for Women-Centered Climate Solutions

​Stakeholder Dialogue | New York Climate Week 2026

​Wednesday, September 23, 2026
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

​Midtown Manhattan, New York City
Venue near Penn Station — exact location shared with confirmed attendees

​Hosted by WOCAN

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​About the Event

​Women are delivering measurable climate impact across adaptation, resilience, clean energy, and nature-based solutions, yet they remain dramatically underfinanced.

​Outcome-based and blended finance structures offer a credible pathway to help close this gap by tying capital to verified results and rewarding the institutions that deliver them.

​A growing range of metrics, methodologies, and verification tools is making gender outcomes increasingly measurable—and potentially investable.

​The question now is how to bring these instruments together with the capital, policy, and market infrastructure needed to move from pilots to scale.

​This stakeholder dialogue will convene global leaders across climate finance, blended finance, impact investing, catalytic capital, gender-responsive measurement and verification, and financial inclusion to explore how outcome-based finance can mobilize greater capital toward women-centered climate solutions.

​Designed as a facilitated roundtable rather than a traditional panel, the session will feature a brief framing presentation followed by three rounds of focused discussion. The format is intended to encourage candid, practical, and action-oriented exchange rather than prepared remarks.