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• Undertake a gender analysis of all budget lines and financial
instruments.
NAPAs must take into consideration economic aspects such as
budgeting, not only for mitigation and adaptation initiatives but also for the
development of the NAPA. Writing NAPAs implies the use of resources and these
should be tied to gender-sensitive processes. NAPAs must also be based on and
include local development plans, insuring a bottom-up approach to the whole
process, their reviewing and approval and they must guarantee the inclusion of
gendered local knowledge.
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NAPAs must be tied into disaster risk management plans. This implies
a coordinated effort on the part of governments and the private sector, and
all stakeholders. The links between sustainable development, disaster risk
management and climate change mitigation and adaptation should be
essential to NAPAS. The Oslo Policy Forum Report clearly states that there should
not be “parallel agendas”, and development planning, national budgeting
for adaptation, institutional arrangements, public awareness, the poverty issue
and peace and conflict issues should all be integrated into the agendas. This
process must be construed to guarantee a gender perspective, which many
governments have not yet been able to implement. Tying the budgeting process
to the inclusion of a gender perspective could help to guarantee success.
NAPAs should stress the costs of adaptation. There has to be specific
and clear information as to the financing process for adaptation initiatives.
These initiatives have to be gender sensitive and the costs for this must be clearly
stated (Oslo Policy Forum Report, 2008).
4.5.2 Disaster Risk Reduction plans
The UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) has
taken steps to include gender in its Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) plans of
action under the Hyogo Framework of Action (HFA). In the DRRs, gender
is incorporated by ensuring equal access to educational opportunities for
vulnerable women, developing early warning systems which take gender
and cultural livelihoods into account, and by utilizing a gender perspective
in decision-making processes when implementing risk management policies.
DRRs are meant to be implemented in national action plans in preparation
for natural disasters. UN/ISDR is involved in gender mainstreaming and lessons
learned in the field and uses examples of women as powerful agents of