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Gender and REDD+: An overview

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Presentation Overview
Past: What has happened
Gender in the UNFCCC Warsaw Framework
Present: Where we are
Recent International and National efforts
Future: Where we should go?
Common issues and ideas to move forward

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What has happened

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It requests parties when developing
and implementing their national
strategies to address: drivers of
deforestation and forest degradation,
land tenure issues, forest governance
issues, gender considerations and the
safeguards ensuring the full and
effective participation of relevant
stakeholders, inter alia, indigenous
peoples and local communities.
In the Cancun Agreement
(FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1 decision 1/CP.16 paragraph 72)

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2. Agrees that systems for
providing information on how the
safeguards referred to in appendix I
to decision 1/CP.16 are addressed
and respected should, taking into
account national circumstances and
respective capabilities, and
recognizing national sovereignty and
legislation, and relevant international
obligations and agreements, and
respecting gender considerations.
Durban Outcomes (FCCC /CP/2011/9/Add.2)

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Some Issues Addressed
• Strategic/ Action Plans
• Safeguards and Standards
• Capacity Building
• Land Tenure and Property Rights
• Benefit Sharing
• FPIC
• Inclusion and Governance

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Where we are

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International
National
Local/Project
Recent Efforts at Multiple Scales
CIFOR Role of Women in Early Implementation
CIEL Using International Law to Advance
Women’s Tenure Rights in REDD+
Ecuador Diagnostic and action plan to
mainstream gender in REDD+ Strategy
Uganda, Ghana and Cameroon review
Gender and REDD+ Actions Plans
Yucatan Peninsula addressed gender
considerations in safeguard process
Lam Dong's Provincial REDD+ Gender
Analysis of Action Plan

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Common Issues and Challenges
• Lack of recognition as stakeholders and
contributors to SFM and conservation
• Participation, Inclusion and Decision Making are
not correlated
• Integration of women’s rights and customary rights
• Barriers to guarantee land tenure rights
• Young women “double exclusion”

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Common Issues and Challenges
• Lack of access to information
• Unsafe conditions for women to express
complaints/grievances
• Benefit Sharing exclusion
• Exclusion from community monitoring
• Elite capture of resources

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Common Issues and Challenges
LAST MINUTE ADD-ON
SEPARATE AGENDA

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Where we should go?

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Gender Blind
Gender Sensitive
Gender Transformative
Gender Responsive
Efficient, effective and equitable
REDD+ Programme
Effective, equitable,
sustainable and just results.
Challenges success of REDD+
programme and its safeguards
Positive development
outcomes and transformation
of unequal gender relations
Establish Target and Define Goals

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Develop Conceptual Framework
RECOGNITION
PROCEDURE DISTRIBUTION
CONTEXT
IIED and
IUCN have
proposed
a three
dimension
framework
to address
equity in
REDD+

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3 Dimension Equity Framework
through a Gender Lens
PROCEDURE DISTRIBUTION
RECOGNITION
• Recognition &
respect of rights
• Respect for knowledge
and institutions
Land Tenure
Recognition of women & youth
Respect and protection of rights
Identifications of inequalities
FPIC

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RECOGNITION
DISTRIBUTION
PROCEDURE
• Effective participation
• Access to information &
capacity building
• Access to justice
Decision-Making
Barriers for involvement
Access information/CB
Safety and Justice
Exclusion Monitoring
3 Dimension Equity Framework
through a Gender Lens

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RECOGNITION
DISTRIBUTION
DISTRIBUTION
• Benefits equally
• Benefits according to
contribution to mitigation
• Benefits according to
rights
• Benefits to reflect costs
• Benefits according to
basic needs
Elite Capture
Exclusion from BSM
Costs, contributions, needs
Impact Assessment
Tradeoffs
3 Dimension Equity Framework
through a Gender Lens

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Define a gender ‘transformative’ implementation of
projects & forest activities

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Muchas Gracias!!!!
Andrea Quesada
Independent Consultant
email andrea.gender.climate@gmail.com