Gender and Climate Change Strategic Plan Ministry of Women’s Affairs (2013-2023).

This Gender and Climate Change Strategic Plan of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs (2013-2023) is a sectoral policy document. As a goal, the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (RGC) Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) seeks to ensure that gender and climate change agendas are fully integrated into public policymaking on climate change within MoWA for Neary Rattanak IV (NRIV), line ministries for sectoral strategic plans, by ensuring that national and sub-national institutional mechanisms for gender mainstreaming are fully charged; GCCC/MoWA and Gender Mainstreaming Action Groups (GMAGs) are fully capacitated and articulating key policy messages and benefits expected by the integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Climate Change is relatively new development agenda to Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA). Based on the findings of analyzing economic development from a gender perspective, the Document proposes policy measures covering both adaptation and mitigation, cross-cutting agendas and institutional, organizational and human capacity development, research and development, financing, monitoring and evaluation. Strategic objectives are: 1. Women’s participation in climate change policymaking is increased; 2. The funding rules for gender and climate change initiatives are established and made operational through gender-responsive budget in the current and upcoming projects/programmes/policies (both external and national sources); 3. The level of awareness of public policymakers is increased on the importance of gender equality in climate change adaptation and mitigation, to achieve sectoral goals in climate change; 4. Women’s climate change adaptation and mitigation needs are 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 analysed for sharing and learning in national, regional and global forums.