1. Gender-Responsive NAP Processes
Coordinating Climate-Resilient Development
Gender-Responsive NAP Processes
Jo-Ellen Parry
September 6, 2017
San José, Costa Rica

2. Why a gender-responsive NAP process?
Adaptation efforts will not be effective or sustainable if they do not take gender into account.
NAP processes can provide an opportunity to address countries’ existing gender inequalities.

3. Policy drivers Cancun Adaptation Framework: Paris Agreement:
» “enhanced action on adaptation should… follow a country-driven, gender-sensitive, participatory and fully transparent approach
Paris Agreement:
» “adaptation action should follow a country- driven, gender-responsive, participatory and fully transparent approach”
» SBI assessment of progress on NAPs
SDGs:
» Goal 5: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”
» Cross-cutting theme

4. Gender-responsive NAP processes
Actively promote gender equality.
» Need to actively examine and address gender norms, roles and inequalities
Take actions to empower women throughout the NAP process.
» Household and community level
» In policy and planning

5. Factors involved in a
gender-responsive
NAP process

6. A gender- responsive NAP process
Plans are responsive to gender differences in adaptation needs, opportunities and capacities
Prioritization processes and allocation of finance and other resources are gender-responsive
Equitable
representation
of women and
women’s
organizations
Gender-balanced participation in planning
processes
Opportunities,
benefits and losses
from adaptation
actions are
equitably shared
All actors have the capacities needed to
integrate gender considerations
Access to
information is
equitable
M&E systems track progress on gender equality and women’s empowerment
Data collection is sex-disaggregated and gender-differentiated impacts are analyzed

7. Achieving a gender-responsive NAP process
Planning
Use sex-disaggregated data, gender-sensitive climate vulnerability assessments, and inputs from gender experts to inform adaptation planning (A4, B2)
Ensure effective participation of women, women’s organizations and institutions promoting gender equality in planning processes (B4)
Facilitate inclusive decision-making that takes the specific needs and priorities of women and men into consideration (B4)
Implementation
Integrate gender equality in criteria for prioritizing adaptation actions (C1)
Identify specific actions targeting particularly vulnerable women (C2)
Practice gender-responsive budgeting (C2)
M&E
Include indicators of gender equality and women’s empowerment in adaptation processes (D1)
Evaluate the differentiated impact of adaptation actions on women and men (D2)

8. Achieving a gender-responsive NAP process
Enabling Factors
Institutional arrangements (A1)
Ensure equitable representation by women and men in institutional structures of the NAP process
Highlight need for gender-sensitivity in the terms of reference for institutional structures
Capacity development (C3)
Facilitate targeted capacity building for women and women’s organizations to enable effective participation in the NAP process
Facilitate capacity building for NAP teams on integrating gender considerations
Information sharing (B4, C3)
Address gender-specific barriers to information access in communication and dissemination strategies
Design climate information services to provide equitable access for women and men

9. Review of 7 NAPs Initial observations
» Reference to gender – most include
Typically as priority sector or principle
» Reference to women
Vulnerability to climate change; as beneficiaries
Less as agents of change
» Planning
Several suggest informed by gender analysis
Less reference to equitable participation in planning process; gender in M&E
» Institutional arrangements
Few reference inclusion of ministry responsible for gender
Going forward
» Can advance before and after NAP document
National and subnational level

10. Steps to make NAP processes more gender-responsive
Gender balanced participation in decision-making
Building skills of gender and adaptation specialists
Knowledge sharing among countries on gender considerations in the NAP process

11. Resources
Draft Guidelines to Mainstream Gender in the Development of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)

12. www.napglobalnetwork.org info@napglobalnetwork.org
Financial support provided by Secretariat hosted by

13. Interactive Session

14. In your groups, discuss the following:
» What are the main challenges that you are facing or that you foresee in terms of efforts to create a gender-responsive NAP?
» What might be solutions or actions you could take within your NAP process to mitigate or overcome these challenges?
Select and write on your cards:
» Two challenges and
» Two solutions
And select a representative to present these selections in plenary