HARNESSING THE POTENTIAL OF AFRICAN WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE TO MEET THE

Noting the postulations of Article 19 of the Protocol that call for the protection and promotion of sustainable development for African women and girls, Article 19 further prescribes that national development encompass gender perspectives for the achievement of sustainability.45 The occurrence of climate-related disasters exacerbates and threatens to erode progress made on gender equity.46 For ins. [...] In the wake of its 20th year, the acceleration of the pillars of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) is a priority for African governments. [...] Action Coalition 4 of the agenda calls for feminist action for climate justice.84 For women to fairly benefit from climate financing and contribute to the advancement of the gender outcomes as envisioned by the Protocol and the GEF, WROs and the 17 feminist movement must be involved in decision-making on the parameters that operationalize climate finance. [...] African countries must safeguard gains achieved through the Protocol and envisioned in the GEF by leveraging a gender approach to the operationalization of the Adaptation Fund and the Loss and Damage Fund. [...] This would increase outcomes in gender-responsive climate action, result in an increase in the structural presentation of gendered climate knowledge and increase accuracy in the portrayal of differential gender realities of the climate crisis and structural and timely gender support in response to the crisis.