This guidance presents joint actionable entry points on gender equality and social inclusion in both National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to foster gender-responsive and inclusive governance, financing, planning, and monitoring across environmental and climate processes. The document serves as a guide for countries to accelerate the mainstreaming of gender equality and social inclusion in their climate and biodiversity efforts, promoting transformative change that benefits both people and planet.
- Document Type
- Guidelines, handbooks, toolkits
- Pages
- 24
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Table of contents 3
- List of abbreviations 3
- Part 1 Introduction 3
- A. Building on a foundation of progress and steering attention to bridging gaps 3
- Part 2 Entry points for integrated action for gender equality and social inclusion in 3
- NBSAPs and NDCs 3
- A. Effective governance improving coordination mechanisms and institutional 3
- B. Inclusive planning implementation and monitoring 3
- C. Finance and resource allocation 3
- D. Policy coherence and alignment 3
- Annexes 3
- List of abbreviations 4
- Introduction 5
- Box 1 6
- Putting words into integrated action Implementing existing policy mandates 6
- A. Building on a foundation of progress and steering attention to 8
- Box 2 9
- UNDPs institutional commitments prioritize integrated development solutions driven by country priorities. 9
- Entry points for integrated action for gender equality and social inclusion in NBSAPs and NDCs 10
- A. Effective governance improving coordination mechanisms and 11
- 1. Strengthening institutional arrangements and coordination mechanisms 11
- 2. Improving institutional capacities 11
- 3. Stakeholder engagement and inclusive decision-making 12
- B. Inclusive planning implementation and monitoring 13
- 4. Capacity development at the local and community level 13
- 5. Data collection analysis and knowledge generation 14
- 7. Integrating womens and Indigenous traditional knowledge 16
- 6. Enhancing monitoring measurement reporting and verification systems 16
- C. Finance and resource allocation 17
- 8. Ensuring gender-responsive budgeting and finance that works for gender equality and 17
- 9. Incentivizing gender-responsive and socially inclusive finance and direct-access 18
- D. Policy coherence and alignment 19
- 10. Ensuring strong policy alignment in favor of gender equality social inclusion and 19
- 11. Strengthening and aligning legal frameworks 20
- Annexes 21
- 1. Concepts and terms 21
- 2. Additional recent resources on gender equality social inclusion and NBSAPs and NDCs 23
