On 27 November 2026, ClimateFiGS will host a lunchtime session with Irma Nugrahanti on how gender-responsive climate budgeting can advance a just transition. The discussion will connect her research to wider perspectives from researchers and practitioners working on gender and climate finance.
Date: 27 November 2026
Time: 12:00-13:30
Location: REC - B9.22 (additional live stream via Microsoft Teams)
How can climate finance promote gender equality, and how can we tell?
Climate action is paid for through international finance and national budgets, yet it is rarely clear who benefits from that spending. Without attention to gender and care, mitigation and adaptation spending can leave existing inequalities untouched or even deepen them. Gender markers, gender-responsive budgeting, and commitments in national climate plans are meant to change that. This session asks whether they do, how gender and care can be built into climate budgets in practice, and what it would take to make them work.
Irma Nugrahanti will present her research on gender-responsive climate budgeting for a just transition, drawing on practical examples, including experiences from Indonesia, to show how gender and care considerations can be integrated into climate budget planning, resource allocation, expenditure tracking, and accountability. The discussion will also incorporate perspectives from other researchers and practitioners on what it takes to make climate finance work for gender equality.
The session will close with an open discussion with the audience on what more gender-responsive climate finance and budgeting would require, and how to get there.
About Irma Nugrahanti
Irma Nugrahanti is a scholar-practitioner with over a decade of experience in the development sector, specialising in finance and program management, policy advocacy, resource mobilisation, and GEDSI (Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion).
She is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, analysing the intersection of gender, climate change, and public finance management, with a particular focus on gender-responsive climate budgeting. Her work draws on feminist economics, political ecology, and political economy, and she has contributed to international policy and academic discussions on climate finance, gender equality, and sustainable development.
Irma holds a postgraduate degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Manchester, complemented by professional certifications in Local Economic Development, Gender-responsive Budgeting, Intersectional Feminism, Climate Policy, Data Analysis, and Communications.