"Ensuring Gender Sensitivity in NAPs" presented by CANSA Policy and Advocacy Co-ordinator Vositha Wijenayake

1. Ensuring Gender
Sensitivity in NAPs
Vositha Wijenayake
Policy and Advocacy Coordinator - CANSA
Regional Facilitator- Southern Voices on Adaptation

2. Is gender only about women?

3. The resilience of groups who are most
vulnerable to climate change is promoted:
 Plans and policies address the issues affecting different
groups of women, men, boys and girls
 Groups of people who are vulnerable to social, cultural,
and environmental conditions are identified and targeted.
 Initiatives taken into account the differentiated needs and
capacities of women, men in different groups.
 Initiatives promote greater social equity and cohesion.

4. Case Study 1 : Ghana
Gender Sensitive National Adaptation Policies
 Contributing to Ghana National Climate Change policy: Focus
Area 8, Addressing Gender Issues in Climate Change
 Developing the implementation of the policy

5. Case study 2: Sri Lanka
Gender Sensitive Adaptation
 Location: North East of the country lacking water resources, impacted
by poverty due to lack of livelihood, and impacts of civil war.
 Beneficiaries : Women lead households (mostly war widows).
 Three livelihood approaches:
Organic agriculture home gardening
Livestock
Non-farm sector activities

6. Objectives
• Mobilise and to maximise
collective social capital to plan
viable, disaster sensitive and
adaptive agriculture based
livelihoods.
• Identify and facilitate capacity
building and training needed for
women and men to gain
knowledge, access and make use
of skills, technical know-how to
adapt to change in water, rainfall.
• Increase income and improve
nutrition levels
• Increase government extension
services and market linkages and
options for agricultural produce.

7. Outcomes
 Increase in vegetable
production of the farmers in
the region.
 Increased access to
livelihood for women
 Increase of income of
women led families
 Increased knowledge of
farmers on how to address
issues regarding agriculture.
 Market for the agricultural
produce
Figure: Training programs on Organic Agriculture

8. What steps have been taken to
ensure gender sensitivity in NAPs?

9. Thank you!
Website: southernvoices.net
Vositha@cansouthasia.net