This presentation looks at experiences in Uganda of linking gender equality and agricultural development in the context of climate change.

1. Gender Mainstreaming
In NAP-Ag Process in Uganda

2. Presentation Outline
• Background to GM in NAP-Ag
• Previous experience in GM in other projects
• Status of GM in NAP-Ag activities in Uganda
• GM plans for upcoming activities
• Entry points/Opportunities
• Institutional Obstacles
• Way forward

3. Background-Importance of gender
in agriculture and climate change
• Agriculture is the backbone of Uganda
• Contributes 23% the country’s GDP
• Employs about 80% of the population , out of which
about 76 % are women
• Holds a big potential for providing employment for
youth. -80% of population are young people
• Yet women still have very limited access and control
over the key productive assets

4. Impacts of climate change on
gender
• Everyone is affected, but not equally due to gender
conditions that determine the position of different
categories of people
• Women and youths (especially girls) have limited access
and control over the productive capital assets like land,
finances etc.
• Women have limited participation in decision making,
benefits from farm proceeds due to the patriarchy system
that tends to favor men
• Hence failure to deliberately target them with a gender lens
leads to automatic discrimination

5. National Adaptation plan for the
Agriculture Sector
Uganda has a NAP with 8 adaptation actions
– Crop production
– Livestock development
– Fisheries management
– Forestry, land and natural resource management
– Climate information, early warning and disaster preparedness
systems
– Research for climate resilient agriculture development
– Knowledge management and partnerships for climate action
– Gendered approach to climate change adaptation

6. Gendered approach to climate
change adaptation
Objective:
• To promote a gender responsive climate smart
agriculture programme to address the gender
gaps in agriculture

7. Planned Gender Actions
• Conduct a comprehensive gendered climate
change impact assessment on agriculture
• Develop and implement a targeted gender
and climate change capacity support
programme
• Develop and support a gender , agriculture
and climate change coordination mechanism
through gender climate platforms

8. Cont’d
• Customize and support gender responsive climate
smart agriculture budgeting, planning and
implementation
• Develop a framework to address/mainstream gender
and vulnerable group’s issues in agriculture and
climate change policies, plans, programmes and
projects
• Assess and document climate smart gender
responsive technologies based on locations that
promote women’s economic empowerment

9. Milestones
• Conducted a gender analysis
• Mainstreamed gender in the 4 sub-sectors (Crop,
livestock, fisheries and forestry)
• Developed an adaptation action on gender with in the
NAP-Ag
• Developed a costed gender work plan for the NAP-Ag
• Co-partners with other organizations to engage the
parliamentary forums on climate change and food
security
• Gender Capacity assessment and stock-taking

10. Future plans
• Capacity building of actors/stakeholders to have a deliberate gender lens during
policy, planning, technology development and implementation
– Research institutes studies and technology development
– Policy makers and politicians –policy development and budget advocacy
– Planners – account for gender responsive climate change plans, budgeting and
implementation at central and local government levels
– Extension staff –technology transfer and impact evaluation
– Farmers – climate change adaptation implementation and impact evaluation
– Institutional capacity building for accountability on gender and climate change
at all levels

11. Entry Point/Opportunities for
Gender mainstreaming in Uganda
• Government policies
• Institutions –ministry of gender with a climate
change focal person and in other sectors
• Training institutions –School of women and gender
studies- a diploma on climate and gender
• FAO and UNDP gender policies
• Climate change policy with a gender
component
• Planning guidelines –crosscutting-climate
change and gender

12. Institutional Challenges in
mainstreaming Gender
• Unclear mechanisms on how to influence/impact on filling of
the gender gaps
• Limited capacity of gender focal persons and technical
persons
• Limited resourcces
• No clear translation of gender mainstreaming concept at
different levels –roles, responsibilities and rights, equality and
equity
• Limited scope of gender inclusiveness i.e. of other categories
• Limited coordination among stakeholders working on gender
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13. Way forward
• Need for more focus to beneficiaries of climate change adaptation
action at farmer levels
• Validate impacts of increased efforts through networks and
platforms to reduce the gender gaps, through evaluation using
standard tools
• Need to develop standard national gender responsive indicators for
climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector
• Translate the training in climate smart gender responsive planning
and budgeting into action in response to climate changes
challenges and impacts at farmer level/grass root
• Need to promote gender household methodologies and gender
awareness to transform mind-set, attitudes, cultural practices and
perceptions