CCAFS engages in key UNFCCC processes to advance gender issues related to agriculture and climate change. Its gender and social inclusion strategy aims to promote gender equality in climate-smart agriculture by 2030. This includes undertaking research to inform climate solutions that don't increase women's workloads, increase women's control over assets, and promote women's participation in decision-making. The presentation outlines guiding principles and possible elements for a gender action plan under the UNFCCC. The principles include ensuring women's meaningful participation in climate policy processes and capacity building targeting women. The suggested elements cover conducting national gender analyses, supporting women's participation and innovation, increasing climate finance for smallholder women farmers, and establishing institutional gender coordination

1. Presentation for the African Group of Negotiators and
African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change
Possible Elements of the
Gender Action Plan under the
Lima Work Program on Gender
Mary Nyasimi

2. Overview of CCAFS’s Engagement in
Global Climate change Discussions
• CCAFS and its partners engages in key UNFCCC processes to drive action
and innovation on issues related to agriculture and gender that help
countries achieve ambitions expressed in their national commitments
• CCAFS aims to advance implementation of existing gender mandates
across most areas of the climate negotiations e.g., REDD+, Climate finance
Gender, Adaptation, Mitigation, Technology, capacity building
• CCAFS provides scientific technical inputs to Countries to support their
UNFCCC submissions e.g., NDCs, NAMAs, NAPs, LWPG (Scientific
framework to produce International Public Goods)
• CCAFS is directly engaged in ensuring that gender is mainstreamed into
the national planning and policy processes at policy and institutional scales
from local (e.g. women’s self-help groups) through to global (UNFCCC
Lima work program on gender)

3. Brief on CCAFS’s Gender and Social
Inclusion Strategy
Goal: promote gender equality in CSA, food systems and landscapes and
ensure that rural women benefit from CCAFS’ contribution to poverty reduction,
enhanced environmental resilience, improved food security, human health and
nutrition.
Strategy: undertake research to:
• Inform, catalyze and target CSA solutions to women, youth and vulnerable
groups that do not increase their workloads
• Increase the control of women and youth over productive assets and
resources, and
• Promote their participation in decision making in order to close the gender gap
by 2030
CCAFS is also involved in investigating the extent to which women and gender
are integrated into global and national climate policy (analysis of GSI in national
and global climate policy)

4. Guiding principles for framing the
Gender Action Plan (GAP) under UNFCCC
• Achievement of institutional
coherence and financial resources for
actions and activities on gender
mainstreaming
• Enhancing quality and availability of
sex and gender disaggregated data
• Ensuring a participatory and inclusive
decision–making process which
recognizes local and traditional
knowledge of women
• Ensuring women’s active participation
and decision making in the design
and implementation of a gender
sensitive climate change policy
process
• Capacity building targeting women at
different scales (community, national
to global)

5. Suggested possible elements Gender
Action Plan (GAP)…1
1. Analyze the national context for
gender trends, sex-disaggregated data
and differing situations of women and
men and the resulting identification of
key sectors, strategies and
mechanisms for policy and action.
2. Participatory technology development
by men and women at the household,
farm and community levels (e.g., new
technologies must be appropriate to
women’s resources and demands)
3. Policy-making processes must include
women’s voices
4. Climate policy processes should go
beyond numerical representation of
women to create active mechanisms
to express opinions, take initiatives,
and influence decisions

6. Suggested possible elements Gender
Action Plan (GAP)…2
5. Capacity building and development
for women scientists and policy-
makers, women’s organizations
6. Women’s innovation processes need
to be recognized and supported
7. Technology assessments that include
gender and sex disaggregation
8. Increase in finance to smallholder
farmers, including a balance of
women and youth, for climate change
mitigation activities, including
decreasing emission intensity
9. Increase in private sector-led
sustainability and certification options
that include women producers and
contributors along the value chain

7. Suggested possible elements Gender
Action Plan (GAP)….3
10. Increased access to agricultural
technologies and inputs to enable
women to practice climate-smart
agriculture practices
11. Institutions must address women’s
adaptation and mitigation priorities
under a changing climate
12. Engage in multi-stakeholder
consultations with women and
women’s organizations, as well as a
range of stakeholder groups at
local, subnational and national level
13. Establish institutional gender
equality frameworks and
coordination mechanisms

8. Suggested Resources
• Farnworth et al. 2017. Gender and inorganic nitrogen: what are the implications of
moving towards a more balanced use of nitrogen fertilizer in the tropics?
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2017.1295343
• Huyer, S. 2016. Gender equality in national climate action: planning for gender-
responsive Nationally Determined Contributions. UNDP.
http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/womens-empowerment/
gender-equality-in-national-climate-action--planning-for-gender-.html
• Huyer et al. 2015. Supporting women farmers in a changing climate: Five policy
lessons. CCAFS Policy Brief no. 10. http://hdl.handle.net/10568/68533

9. Thank You
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