Transcript 11 Presentation on Approaches Used to Mainstream Gender Issues

POVERTY-ENVIRONMENT INITIATIVE
CTCN TRAINING WORKSHOP OF NATIONAL
DESIGNATED ENTITIES
Overview of Gender and Climate Change
Climate vulnerable livelihood in Garissa, Kenya © John van Mossel ALP 2012
Presentation by Thérèse Niyondiko,Programme
Officer/PEF
Overview of the Presentation
1. Introduction
– Objectives of the session
– Why hould we consider Gender in CC Responses ?
2. Mainstreaming Gender in CC: Approaches and tools
- Some definitions
- Approaches and tools
- Some Examples
1. Introduction: Session Objectives
Objectives :
• To enable us have a common understanding of gender as
a concept and gender mainstreaming as a strategy in the
context of Climate Change.
• To continue raise awareness on the necessity/importance
of gender responsive planning, monitoring and evaluation
of CC related Programmes .
Result :
A common understanding of:
• the rationale of integrating gender and other equity issues
in Climate Change related activities
• How better to mainstream them and which tools can be
used ?
1.2 Why Gender is important to CC?
•
Climate change is threatening the livelihoods of
women and men- wide-ranging impacts
on freshwater, resources, food, forest products ,
human health etc.
• Poor and marginalized segments of society are especially
vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change - tend to have
limited resources - limited capacity to adapt
• livelihoods tend to be highly dependent on natural
resources that are sensitive to climate vulnerability
For example, agriculture-a highly climate-sensitive
• Climate change may also accentuate existing inequalities
including access to land and other assets – limited
ability of women to respond to the effects of CC
1.2 Why Gender is Important in CC?
• Gender equality leads to economic
growth and contributes to poverty alleviation
• Gender equality is a basic human rightright for both men and women to access to land, water, forests and other
productive resources including technologies
to adapt to CC
• Participation and inclusion of women and
marginalized groups - different perspectives
and make climate responses more effective
and sustainable.
1.3 IMPACT ON WOMEN
Impacts on women
CROP FAILURE
FUEL SHORTAGE
Climate Change
SHORTAGE OF SAFE,
CLEAN WATER
RESOURCE SCARCITY
Household food provision;
Increased agricultural work
Household fuel provision;
food-fuel conflicts
Household water provision;
exposure to contaminated sources
Economic drawbacks; lack of land
tenure; resource-dependent livelihoods;
school dropouts, early marriage
NATURAL DISASTERS
Greater incidence of mortality;
reduction of life expectancy
DISEASE
Lack of access to healthcare;
increased burden of caring for young,
sick and elderly
DISPLACE-MENT
Loss of livelihoods; lack of adequate
shelter; conflicts
CIVIL WAR / CONFLICT
Loss of livelihoods and lives; sexual
violence and trauma
Adapted from WEDO, 2008
2.1 Mainstreaming Gender in Climate
Change: Definitions
• Gender mainstreaming is a strategy for ensuring that
the different needs, views and perceptions of women
and men, girls and boys are taken into account in
planning , design , implementation and monitoring and
evaluation.
• Mainstreaming is not about adding a ‘woman’s
component’ or even a ‘gender equality’ component
into existing activities or projects. It means bringing the
experiences, knowledge, and interests of women and
men in development interventions including those
related to CC adaption/mitigation.
2.2 Mainstreaming Gender:
Systematic gender analysis
• Design and Project implementation
– Goals/objectives refer to gender issues
– Participation/engagement
– Training/awareness raising
– Budgeting and financing
• Monitoring and evaluation
– Does project affect activity profile ?
– Does project change access/control ?
– Does project improve both condition/position ?
– Gender disaggregated data
2.3 Mainstreaming gender in climate
change : approaches and tools
•
Applying existing Tools – see relevant guidance notes
– PEI gender equality checklist for programme formulation which includes
CC component
– Tools available through partner organizations including UNDP, UNWomen and others
•
Applying Gender based Programmatic Approach:
– Finding the entry points and making the case for gender and equity
issues
– Integrating inclusive CC issues into national development processes
– Meeting the implementation challenge to mitigate/adapt to climate
change
Finding entry points and making the case
for Gender and equity issues
– Preliminary Assessment
• understanding governmental, political and institutional needs to
promote gender equality and specific gender-sensitive Climate
response
• gender analysis of relevant (sub)-national and sector strategies,
plans, budgets and aid programmes –in line with existing gender
equality strategies.• Impact analysis of socio economic aspects of climate change- loss
in GDP, land degradation, who is more affected?
• Raising awareness and building partnerships
– (sub)national steering groups include representatives of
women and marginalised groups.
– communication strategy that includes outputs related to
gender equality and invest in community sensitization i.e
Education on Climate sciences, early warning systems, Hard
adaptation strategies- diversification of crops , technology
The importance of access to information
on CC.- www.careclimatechange.org
Integrating inclusive CC into national
development processes
• Developing country-specific evidence including gender
disaggregated data
– EIA, Environment and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA),PEER and
economic assessments with provision of gender analysis-
• Influencing policy processes
–
(sub)-national and sector plans on CC integrate gendersensitive objectives that address concerns of marginalized
groups to climate change.
• Developing and costing policy measures
• make the case for gender and equity inclusion by highlighting
the positive effects of inclusive/gender-sensitive planning and
budgeting for effectiveness of CC policies
• Strengthening Institutions and Capacities
Some Examples: Mali
• UNDP, UNIDO and IFAD initiated a programme to decrease
the burden of fuel collection by supplying labour-saving
energy services and promoting the empowerment of
women by supplying multifunctional platforms to rural
villages. The multifunctional platform is an engine with
modular components that can supply motive power for
time- and labour-intensive works such as agricultural
processing (milling, de-husking) and electricity for lighting
(approximately 200–250 small bulbs), welding, or
pumping water.
• Benefits include time saving for women and that can be
utilised for income generating activities for example.
Source: UNDP-GGCA (2012)
Some examples: Rwanda
“The switch to greener forms of growth offers new opportunities to promote
gender equality and women’s empowerment. UNDP recently launched the
Women’s Green Business Initiative to promote women’s entrepreneurship
opportunities in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
The Initiative works closely with women in developing countries to start,
incubate or scale-up business enterprises, and improve their access to climate
funds in a new green economy.
By promoting business activities managed by women, it intends to help them
to establish sustainable livelihoods, protect critical eco-systems and
strengthen the resilience of communities to climate change. An example of
how this initiative works is the local women’s group Twiyubake Turengara
Ibidukikije (‘Empowering Ourselves in Order to Protect the Environment’) in
Rwanda. In 2008, the UNDP Gender Team offset the GHG generated by their
travel to a meeting in Rwanda by providing a voluntary credit grant of $10,420
to the group for a bamboo-growing project. The women used the grant to
plant60 hectares of bamboo trees for use in making furniture, baskets and
handicrafts. Besides off setting the GHG emissions from the meeting, the
project is reducing deforestation and erosion in the Nyungwe Forest National
Park, and offers the women a stable income.” Source: UNDP (2009)
PEI Africa Gender Strategy:
Consolidating Partenerships
• Objective:
– The strategy aims to operationalize the guidance note on gender
equality trough concrete measures to be taken by PEI Africa for
better integration of a gender equality approach in 2014-2017.
• Proposed measures
– increased collaboration with UN Women at the regional as well as
country level
– Increased collaboration with UNDP Gender initiatives such as the
Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative (GEPMI)
– Capacity building of project staff to mainstream gender into the
implementation of PEI. i.e. training on gender and CC-UNDP and
GGCA – can involve NDEs
– to provide suggestions of potential entry points for integrating
gender and equity issues at country level.- i.e NDEs while
developing, selecting and submitting country requests to the CTCN.
THANK YOU
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