GGCA Gender and Climate Change Training Manual - Women's ...

Strategic opportunities and openings exist for modifying and reforming
existing frameworks in institutions, instruments and mechanisms such as the World
Bank, the GEF, NAPAs and REDD.
• The World Bank: The Bank’s Strategic Framework on Climate Change
and Development is supposed to address social and human
dimensions, including gender, as well as economic, financial and
environmental elements. The same approach should be applied to
its two new facilities, the FCPF and the CPF. Lobbying should be done
to ensure that, at the very least, the Bank integrates and embeds its
own gender analysis and guidelines into these programmes. At best,
the Bank should also take on board recommendations from women’s
groups for promoting greater gender sensitivity in the work
programmes of the funds it administers.
• The GEF: The GEF’s two weak areas are in gender mainstreaming
and adaptation mainstreaming. These two need to be intertwined to
reinforce each other. A gender audit of GEF’s programmes is certainly
timely.
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• NAPAs: the process for working out the final structure and criteria
for project funding for NAPA is currently on the table. Now is the time,
therefore, for active lobbying to ensure that gender concerns and
women’s priorities are integrated and interwoven with any emerging
sets of criteria.
Box 9 The GEF and participation
The GEF works with NGOs and CBOs through national steering committees. Steering
committee members and national coordinators are provided with tools to incorporate
gender into the implementation of programmes. Using training modules developed by
GEF, they are asked to conduct national reviews and assessments of how gender-sensitive
policies are. After the training, national steering committee members are asked to put in
writing what they would do and how they would implement gender mainstreaming. There
is a database of how they can follow the process of incorporating gender. Through this
training process, every national steering committee member gains a gender dimension, so
he or she knows how to mainstream gender.
Currently, 103 countries within the GEF programmes have more women as national
coordinators and include provisions to access leadership. At the initiation stage, both
men and women are included, and they decide what they want to work on, and how to
impact assessment.
Source: GCCA, 2008.
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