Gender Mainstreaming

In NAP-Ag Process in Uganda

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

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

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

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

Gendered approach to climate change adaptation

Objective:• To promote a gender responsive climate smart

agriculture programme to address the gender gaps in agriculture

Planned Gender Actions

• Conduct a comprehensive gendered climatechange impact assessment on agriculture

• Develop and implement a targeted genderand climate change capacity supportprogramme

• Develop and support a gender , agricultureand climate change coordination mechanismthrough gender climate platforms

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

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

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

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

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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Way forward• Need for more focus to beneficiaries of climate change adaptation

action at farmer levels

• Validate impacts of increased efforts through networks andplatforms to reduce the gender gaps, through evaluation usingstandard tools

• Need to develop standard national gender responsive indicators forclimate change adaptation in the agriculture sector

• Translate the training in climate smart gender responsive planningand budgeting into action in response to climate changeschallenges and impacts at farmer level/grass root

• Need to promote gender household methodologies and genderawareness to transform mind-set, attitudes, cultural practices andperceptions