ensuring gender sensitivity in naps

Ensuring Gender Sensitivity in NAPs

Vositha Wijenayake

Policy and Advocacy Coordinator - CANSA

Regional Facilitator- Southern Voices on Adaptation

Is gender only about women?

The resilience of groups who are most vulnerable to climate change is promoted:

Plans and policies address the issues affecting different groups of women, men, boys and girls

Groups of people who are vulnerable to social, cultural, and environmental conditions are identified and targeted.

Initiatives taken into account the differentiated needs and capacities of women, men in different groups.

Initiatives promote greater social equity and cohesion.

Case Study 1 : GhanaGender Sensitive National Adaptation Policies

Contributing to Ghana National Climate Change policy: Focus Area 8, Addressing Gender Issues in Climate Change

Developing the implementation of the policy

Case study 2: Sri LankaGender Sensitive Adaptation

Location: North East of the country lacking water resources, impacted by poverty due to lack of livelihood, and impacts of civil war.

Beneficiaries : Women lead households (mostly war widows).

Three livelihood approaches:

Organic agriculture home gardening

Livestock

Non-farm sector activities

Objectives• Mobilise and to maximise

collective social capital to plan viable, disaster sensitive and adaptive agriculture based livelihoods.

• Identify and facilitate capacity building and training needed for women and men to gain knowledge, access and make use of skills, technical know-how to adapt to change in water, rainfall.

• Increase income and improve nutrition levels

• Increase government extension services and market linkages and options for agricultural produce.

Outcomes Increase in vegetable

production of the farmers in the region.

Increased access to livelihood for women

Increase of income of women led families

Increased knowledge of farmers on how to address issues regarding agriculture.

Market for the agricultural produce

Figure: Training programs on Organic Agriculture

What steps have been taken to ensure gender sensitivity in NAPs?

Thank you!Website: southernvoices.net

Vositha@cansouthasia.net