Lima Work Program April 2017
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CCAFS engages in key UNFCCC processes to advance gender issues related to agriculture and climate change. Its gender and social inclusion strategy aims to promote gender equality in climate-smart agriculture by 2030. This includes undertaking research to inform climate solutions that don't increase women's workloads, increase women's control over assets, and promote women's participation in decision-making. The presentation outlines guiding principles and possible elements for a gender action plan under the UNFCCC. The principles include ensuring women's meaningful participation in climate policy processes and capacity building targeting women. The suggested elements cover conducting national gender analyses, supporting women's participation and innovation, increasing climate finance for smallholder women farmers, and establishing institutional gender coordination
Lima Work Program April 2017
- 1. Presentation for the African Group of Negotiators and African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change Possible Elements of the Gender Action Plan under the Lima Work Program on Gender Mary Nyasimi
- 2. Overview of CCAFS’s Engagement in Global Climate change Discussions • CCAFS and its partners engages in key UNFCCC processes to drive action and innovation on issues related to agriculture and gender that help countries achieve ambitions expressed in their national commitments • CCAFS aims to advance implementation of existing gender mandates across most areas of the climate negotiations e.g., REDD+, Climate finance Gender, Adaptation, Mitigation, Technology, capacity building • CCAFS provides scientific technical inputs to Countries to support their UNFCCC submissions e.g., NDCs, NAMAs, NAPs, LWPG (Scientific framework to produce International Public Goods) • CCAFS is directly engaged in ensuring that gender is mainstreamed into the national planning and policy processes at policy and institutional scales from local (e.g. women’s self-help groups) through to global (UNFCCC Lima work program on gender)
- 3. Brief on CCAFS’s Gender and Social Inclusion Strategy Goal: promote gender equality in CSA, food systems and landscapes and ensure that rural women benefit from CCAFS’ contribution to poverty reduction, enhanced environmental resilience, improved food security, human health and nutrition. Strategy: undertake research to: • Inform, catalyze and target CSA solutions to women, youth and vulnerable groups that do not increase their workloads • Increase the control of women and youth over productive assets and resources, and • Promote their participation in decision making in order to close the gender gap by 2030 CCAFS is also involved in investigating the extent to which women and gender are integrated into global and national climate policy (analysis of GSI in national and global climate policy)
- 4. Guiding principles for framing the Gender Action Plan (GAP) under UNFCCC • Achievement of institutional coherence and financial resources for actions and activities on gender mainstreaming • Enhancing quality and availability of sex and gender disaggregated data • Ensuring a participatory and inclusive decision–making process which recognizes local and traditional knowledge of women • Ensuring women’s active participation and decision making in the design and implementation of a gender sensitive climate change policy process • Capacity building targeting women at different scales (community, national to global)
- 5. Suggested possible elements Gender Action Plan (GAP)…1 1. Analyze the national context for gender trends, sex-disaggregated data and differing situations of women and men and the resulting identification of key sectors, strategies and mechanisms for policy and action. 2. Participatory technology development by men and women at the household, farm and community levels (e.g., new technologies must be appropriate to women’s resources and demands) 3. Policy-making processes must include women’s voices 4. Climate policy processes should go beyond numerical representation of women to create active mechanisms to express opinions, take initiatives, and influence decisions
- 6. Suggested possible elements Gender Action Plan (GAP)…2 5. Capacity building and development for women scientists and policy- makers, women’s organizations 6. Women’s innovation processes need to be recognized and supported 7. Technology assessments that include gender and sex disaggregation 8. Increase in finance to smallholder farmers, including a balance of women and youth, for climate change mitigation activities, including decreasing emission intensity 9. Increase in private sector-led sustainability and certification options that include women producers and contributors along the value chain
- 7. Suggested possible elements Gender Action Plan (GAP)….3 10. Increased access to agricultural technologies and inputs to enable women to practice climate-smart agriculture practices 11. Institutions must address women’s adaptation and mitigation priorities under a changing climate 12. Engage in multi-stakeholder consultations with women and women’s organizations, as well as a range of stakeholder groups at local, subnational and national level 13. Establish institutional gender equality frameworks and coordination mechanisms
- 8. Suggested Resources • Farnworth et al. 2017. Gender and inorganic nitrogen: what are the implications of moving towards a more balanced use of nitrogen fertilizer in the tropics? http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2017.1295343 • Huyer, S. 2016. Gender equality in national climate action: planning for gender- responsive Nationally Determined Contributions. UNDP. http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/womens-empowerment/ gender-equality-in-national-climate-action--planning-for-gender-.html • Huyer et al. 2015. Supporting women farmers in a changing climate: Five policy lessons. CCAFS Policy Brief no. 10. http://hdl.handle.net/10568/68533