Gender Responsive Climate Action :

Impact, Response & Emerging

Opportunities

Presentation by:
Elizabeth Adongo Oloo
Candidate-Adviser and Head of Section

19th July 2023

Climate Change is the greatest global
threat of the 21st Century with
widespread impact across the globe.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND GENDER

KEY POINTS
Climate change through
intersectional lens
Serve as a ‘threat multiplier’
Climate change hazards
‘increase or heighten existing
gender inequalities.
GENDER DIFFERENTIATED IMPACT
 GENDER RESPONSIVE CLIMATE ACTION

• Building effective responses to climate change • Gender responsive climate policy instruments
requires understanding of how gender inequality
affects multiple issues. • Systematic mainstreaming of gender into policies
and intervention need to ensure:
• Various legislative, policy and strategic frameworks
with respect to climate change mitigation and i. Climate policy and action is aligned to local
adaptation strategies at local , national and global context
level.
ii. Equal access to opportunity , resources ,
• The United Nations Framework Convention on decision making
Climate Change has included a focus on addressing
iii. Prioritisation of women empowerment by
climate change issues with a gender perspective.
overcoming institutional and socio-cultural
• Commonwealth Declaration on Gender Equality barriers
2021-2021 commits to drive forward inclusive
iv. Alignment of commitments the local and
and gender responsive solution across the
global obligations e.g. UDHR, CEDAW
commonwealth.
Gender responsive implementation implies a
• Countries have formulated climate change policies,
holistic approach that aims to overcome silos
strategies and action plans as well as green growth
and gaps that impede the appropriate design,
strategies with a gendered pepective
implementation, and monitoring of gender
• Gender integration in Nationally Determined responsive climate action.
Contributions (NDCs)
 IMPLEMENTATION OF A GENDER RESPONSIVE ACTION PLAN AT THE COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT
STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT HEALTH IN THE WAKE OF
CLIMATE CHANGE
Technical Support & Capacity Building
Knowledge Sharing , Information and
Management
Strengthen CommSec Gender Action on
Climate Change
Financing for climate action
Advocacy
PROPOSED ROADMAP
LEVEL POLICIES & ACTION SPECIFICALLY SUPPORTING CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND
RESILIENCE
National - Integrate women’s knowledge, experience and voice on climate action
- Catalyse global collaboration towards achieving equality in disaster risk reduction
- Support to MCs on implementation of UNCCD and UNFCCC mandates
- TA to improve NDC gender commitments
- Training programme for women and girls to engage , negotiate and participate in the NFCCC
programmes and other climate meetings
Global - Create a compendium of solutions- oriented practices and lessons on gender climate action and related
National issues
- Collection and dissemination of data
- Review and expand existing platforms for information sharing
- Advocacy resources to disseminate packages of interventions alongside normative agencies
Institution - Support the Ministerial Action Group and its TOR, propose expanding of mandate
- Analyse gender analysis , assessment and measuring tools for greater coherence and application across
the divisions
- Review internal best practice for scale up and to create robust gender climate action
- Strengthen gender team capacity to support development of gender tools on mainstreaming
- Strengthen links with National Women's Machinery, civil society and agencies on climate and disaster
reduction
- Gender responsive analysis / assessment on key climate action including CALL, CCFAH, CBC,
Institution - Through NWMs support engagement with MCs on Climate Finance application and implementation
National - Collective TA to countries to increase number of gender specific programmes and enhance acceptance
Global • Advocacy Strategy for action with key messages on need gender responsive action
• country advocacy action plans and accountability
• Advocacy on the ratification and implementation of CEDAW
THANK YOU

Q&A