Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (GCCAP) 2014-2018.

This Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (GCCAP) 2014-2018 of Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) is a sectoral policy document. The objectives of the GCCAP are: 1. Women's participation in climate change policy-making will be increased. 2. The funding rules for gender and climate change initiatives will be established and made operational through gender-responsive budgeting in the current and upcoming projects/programs/policies. 3. The level of awareness of public policy-makers will be increased on the importance of gender equality in climate change adaptation and mitigation. 4. Women's climate change adaptation and mitigation needs will be met by strategic and catalytic initiatives on gender and climate change on a priority basis, following the development of criteria, based on the findings of vulnerability and adaptation analyses. 5. National capacities are enhanced to plan, implement and monitor gender-integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives. 6. Effective mechanisms for scaling up the proven experiences on gender and climate change are identified; lessons and best practices of gender and climate change are elicited and analyzed for sharing and learning in national, regional and global forums.
The priority areas MoWA will actively address are identified: 1. Strengthening institutional capacity and cross-sectoral coordination with a focus on women's role in climate change adaptation and mitigation. 2. Improving capacity, knowledge and awareness on women's role in climate change adaptation and mitigation. 3. Reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts of disadvantaged women and other groups. 4. Reducing GHG emissions by introducing climate friendly, low carbon economic activities for women. Actions are proposed to achieve the objectives of the GCCAP: 1. Strengthening gender and climate change capacities at all levels, especially at the subnational levels in partnership with all stakeholders. 2. Promoting integration of gender responsiveness in National Strategic Development Plan and sector plans to increase resilience capacity of women to cope with climate change impacts in cooperation with agencies concerned. 3. Promoting women's participation in decision making on climate change policy at all levels. 4. Conducting vulnerability assessments of women and girls to climate change impacts, including developing database and Monitoring and Evaluation Framework on climate change gender responsiveness with line ministries. 5. Promoting education and awareness building on climate change impacts and disaggregated role of men and women in coping with CC impacts. 6. Developing and piloting gender-based climate change adaptation and mitigation projects or initiative in cooperation with sector ministries and other stakeholders.