Ensuring Gender Sensitivity in NAPs
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Ensuring Gender Sensitivity in NAPs Vositha Wijenayake Policy and Advocacy Coordinator - CANSA Regional Facilitator- Southern Voices on Adaptation
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Ensuring Gender Sensitivity in NAPs
Vositha Wijenayake
Policy and Advocacy Coordinator - CANSA
Regional Facilitator- Southern Voices on Adaptation
Is gender only about women?
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.
Case Study 1 : GhanaGender 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
Case study 2: Sri LankaGender 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
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.
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
What steps have been taken to ensure gender sensitivity in NAPs?
