Asia & the Pacific22 July 2020

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Srijana ShresthaUnder Secretary (Tech.)Climate Change Management DivisionMinistry of Forests and Environment (Nepal)

Agenda

10 min Opening and Welcome

30 minWhy mainstreaming gender enhances effectiveness of climate action

30 min Planning - Gender data and analysis

20 min Institutional Arrangements

20 min Break

50 mincontinued Institutional Arrangements

35 minutes in working groups

70 minAlignment and coherence

35 minutes in working groups

5 min Partners and networks / Closing

Vositha Wijenayake

Executive Director, SLYCAN Trust

Inkar Kadyrzhanova, Regional adviser on gender and climate change, UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Verania ChaoProgramme Specialist, Gender and Inclusion Climate Strategies and Policy Environment, UNDP

Hannah LordAssistant Director, Climate Resilience and Dev. Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)

Jessica GardnerStatistics Consultant EmPower Project

Sandee G. Recabar Planning Officer V and Chief Implementation Oversight DivisionClimate Change Office(Philippines)

Dinravy KhornTechnical Advisor to Ministry of Women’s Affairs on Climate Change andGender (Cambodia)

Mirza Shawkat Ali Director Climate Change, Dep. of Environment, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (Bangladesh)

Chu Thi Thanh HươngHead of Science Technology and Int. Coop. Division, Ministry of Environment (Viet Nam)

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Speaker Biographies

Vositha Wijenayake Executive Director

SLYCAN Trust

Vositha is Executive Director of SLYCAN Trust, and an Attorney-at-Law specializing in international environmental law, and UN human rights law. Among her key areas of focus under climate change adaptation are stakeholder engagement in the adaptation processes, integration of climate change adaptation into development processes, monitoring and evaluation of finance for adaptation, risk and vulnerability assessment.Vositha holds an LL.M in Public International Law from University of London, and an LL.B from Queen Mary, University of London

Inkar KadyrzhanovaRegional adviser on gender

and climate change, UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Inkar is leading the regional work ongender mainstreaming in climate changeand disaster risk reduction. Prior to that,she worked at the UN Climate Changesecretariat on mitigation, data and analysisissues and supported the negotiationprocess on climate action by state andnon-state stakeholders. She has more than15 years of work experience in the area ofenvironment protection and climatechange mitigation and adaptation andworked at different UN agencies. Besidesworking in Asia, Inkar has led the regionalprogrammes of UNDP on environment andsecurity in Central Asia and other sub-regions of Europe and CIS region.

Verania ChaoProgramme Specialist, Gender & Inclusion Climate Strategies & Policy Environment, UNDP

Verania has worked for UNDP for morethan a decade, and is currentlyspearheading the gender-responsive NDCwork under the NDC Support Programmeand the Climate Promise initiative.Previously, she worked as a PolicySpecialist for Environment and ClimateChange in the Gender Team atHeadquarters for four years. She alsooversaw the environment, energy andclimate change portfolio in UNDP’scountry office in Mexico, where sheworked with national and subnationalgovernments, civil society organizationsand at the community level. Verania holdsan MSc in Environment and Developmentfrom LSE.

Speaker Biographies

Hannah LordAssistant Director, Climate

Resilience and Dev. Section, Department of Foreign Affairs

and Trade, Australia

Hannah has nine years’ experienceworking with Australia’s Department ofForeign Affairs and Trade as a policy officerand diplomat. Through her current role inthe Sustainability and Climate ChangeBranch, Hannah works to integrate climatechange across Australia’s developmentprogram and serves as a member ofAustralia’s UNFCCC delegation negotiatinggender and climate finance issues. Since2018, she has served as Australia’sUNFCCC national gender and climatechange focal point.

Jessica GardnerStatistics Consultant

EmPower Project

Jessica is a statistician and data analystwith almost 30 years of experience, mainlyin the public sector and internationalorganizations. Now based in SouthAustralia, she works as a consultant forUnited Nations agencies in countriesacross Asia and the Pacific, and in Europeand Central Asia. Jessica specialises ingender statistics, providing technicalassistance and training to strengthen theproduction and use of statistics inevidence-based planning, policies, andreporting. She has been working with UNWomen in Asia and the Pacific region tosupport countries to integrate gender intheir climate change and disaster-relatedstatistics

Sandee G. Recabar Planning Officer V and Chief Implementation Oversight Division Climate Change

Office, Philippines

Sandee heads the division tasked tomonitor mainstreaming andimplementation of climate change plansand programs of the government (nationaland sub-national). Her team manages thedomestic online transparency systemdesigned to monitor climate actions andsupport. She heads the climate budgettagging helpdesk and spearheads variousclimate reports to be communicated tooversight agencies and the UNFCCCincluding the NDC finalization. She is amember of the Commission's GAD FocalPoint System, overseeing theimplementation of gender actions withinthe CCC and mainstreaming of genderconsiderations in climate policy.

Dinravy KhornTechnical Advisor to the

Ministry of Women’s Affairs on Climate Change and

Gender, Cambodia

Dinravy has over 30 years of experiencewith diverse institutions such as the RoyalGovernment of Cambodia Ministry, UNDPin Cambodia, International NGOs such asOxfam and Action for DisabilityDevelopment. Her expertise includes,gender equality and gendermainstreaming, results-based programmanagement, sustainable livelihoods forthe rural poor, social protection,community-based organization, ClimateChange, Knowledge Management, Policyand Research Coordination. She receivedher Master on Public Administration inCambodia and Postgraduate Diploma inAccounting and Auditing for DevelopmentCountries in the UK.

Speaker Biographies

Srijana Shrestha Under Secretary (Tech.)

Climate Change Management Division, Ministry of Forests

and Environment, Nepal

Srijana has more than nine years ofexperience in the field of forestry. She wasinvolved in the preparation of the NationalREDD+ Benefit Sharing Plan, EmissionReduction Program Document (ERPD), andin the formulation of National ClimateChange Policy (2019). Since 2010 sheworks in the Ministry of Forests andEnvironment (MoFE) and now leads theadaptation section of Climate ChangeManagement Division and co-ordinatesthe project, Building Capacity to AdvanceNAP Process. She was a Gender Focal Pointfor REDD-IC and worked on the GenderAssessment and development of theGender Action Plan for the ERPD.

Mirza Shawkat Ali Director Climate Change, Dep.

of Environment, Ministry of Environment Forest and

Climate Change, Bangladesh

Shawkat completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) andM.Sc. in Geography from JahangirnagarUniversity, Bangladesh. Later he obtainedMS in Spatial Planning from DortmundTechnical University, Germany andUniversity of the Philippines.He previously worked for UNDP and hasmore than 23 years of work experience atthe Department of Environment in thefield of Environment and Climate Change.Mr. Mirza served in different UNFCCCbodies namely, Least Developed CountriesExpert Group and Adaptation Fund Board.

Dr. Chu Thi Thanh HươngHead of Science Technology

and Int. Coop. Division, Ministry of Environment,

Viet Nam

Huong was the Secretariat to develop thecountry’s INDC in 2015, the Plan forImplementation of the Paris Agreement ofViet Nam in 2016. Currently, she has beenassigned to support the review and updateof the NDC. She is the Secretariat for theVietnam Negotiation Team under UNFCCC,support to develop the scheme for thedelegation to participate in annual COPfrom 2013-now, assist the relatedactivities before, during and post COP forthe delegation. She also supports theDirector General of DCC for the tasks ofNational Focal Point of UNFCCC and IPCC.

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2001

Increase representation and

participation of women

2012

Gender balance goal, standing item on COP

agenda, reporting

2014

Two year work programme on gender to 2016

2015

Paris Agreement: human rights

language, capacity-building, adaptation

2016

Three year work programme on gender to 2019

2017

Gender Action Planto 2019

2019

Enhanced gender work programme & action plan to 2024

Gender under the UNFCCC

2020 - 2024Enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender

Gender Action Plan

Priority Area A: 5 Activities

Priority Area B: 3 Activities

Priority Area C: 3 Activities

Priority Area D: 7 Activities

Priority Area E: 2 Activities

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PRIORITY AREA A PRIORITY AREA B PRIORITY AREA C PRIORITY AREA D PRIORITY AREA E

Capacity-Building,

Knowledge Management & Communication

Gender Balance,

Participation & Women’s

Leadership

Coherence Gender –Responsive

Implementation & Means of

Implementation

Monitoring & Reporting

Gender Action Plan

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Breakout session – Institutional Arrangements

Participants are split into four working groups, facilitated by

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Saher Rashid Baig

Women and Gender working group – YOUNGO

Malia TalakaiNatural Resource Officer. FAO

Angie Dazé

Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development and NAP Global Network

Vositha Wijenayake

Executive Director, SLYCAN Trust

“Thinking of institutional arrangements in the broad sense and with a focus on which departments are involved in which processes (e.g. GEF and GCF processes or consultations for policy formulation) – Can

you think of examples from the region (or beyond) where institutional arrangements were conducive to gender integration in national climate policy, plans, strategies and action?“

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Molefi Mpheshea

Natural Resource Officer, FAO

Biographies – Facilitators

Saher Rashid BaigWomen and Gender working

group – YOUNGO

Saher is a global SDG facilitator, aMarkmaker at the Museum for the UnitedNations- UN live. Previously Sahersupported the global movement called ALLIN FOR CLIMATE ACTION and now shehelps local and the global audiences tounderstand and achieve the SDGs withtheir available resources. Saher is alsoserving the YOUNGO Human rightsworking group as a co-focal point andteam lead. She is also a member of theWomen and Gender working group ofYOUNGO and United Nations major groupfor children and youth.

Malia TalakaiNatural Resource Office,

Climate Change, FAO Sub-Regional Office in Pacific

As Gender Focal Point Malia led efforts tomainstream gender into the Climate andEnvironment Division, including oncapacity development; assessment ofgender as an environmental and socialsafeguard; coordination of FAO’s inputstowards the implementation of theEnhanced Lima Work Programme onGender and its Gender Action Plan (GAP).In FAO’s Sub-Regional Office in the Pacificshe leads climate change work, includingon the FAO GCF portfolio, which requirestrong gender consideration, and the FAOFlagship Project on Scaling upImplementation of the Enhanced LimaWork Programme on Gender and its GAPin Agriculture.

Molefi MphesheaNatural Resource Officer,

FAO

Mr. Molefi Mpheshea is an EnvironmentalSoil Scientist with concentration in SoilsManagement and Resource Conservation.He is working as a Natural ResourceOfficer in FAO on climate changeadaptation with focus on sustainable soilmanagement and ecosystem-basedadaptation. He is a gender focal point inhis team and currently he is implementinga project Scaling up implementation of theEnhanced Lima Work Programme onGender and its Gender Action Plan inAgriculture

Vositha Wijenayake Executive Director,

SLYCAN Trust

Vositha Wijenayake is Executive Directorof SLYCAN Trust, and an Attorney-at-Lawspecializing in international environmentallaw, and UN human rights law. Among herkey areas of focus under climate changeadaptation are stakeholder engagement inthe adaptation processes, integration ofclimate change adaptation intodevelopment processes, monitoring andevaluation of finance for adaptation, riskand vulnerability assessment.Vositha holds an LL.M in PublicInternational Law from University ofLondon, and an LL.B from Queen Mary,University of London

Angie DazéAssociate, International Institute for Sustainable

Development / NAP Global Network

Angie Dazé (she/her) is an Associate onresilience and climate change adaptationwith the International Institute forSustainable Development (IISD) and amember of the NAP Global NetworkSecretariat. Her work focuses on policyand practice related to climate changeadaptation and resilience building,particularly in relation to NationalAdaptation Plan (NAP) processes. As thegender co-lead for the NAP GlobalNetwork, she provides technical supportto governments, develops tools andguidance and documents learning ongender-responsive adaptation planningand action.

WGC

Breakout session – Alignment & Coherence

Participants are split into four working groups, facilitated by

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Poorvaprabha Patil United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth Regional Focal Point

Sibyl NelsonGender Advisor, Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO Headquarters

Kavita NaiduClimate Justice Programme Officer Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)

Mozaharul Alam

Leading specialist on climate change portfolio at UNEP in Asia-Pacific region

“How are countries from the region (or beyond) ensuring coherence and aligning their work on gender and climate change? (In terms of national policy, legislation, different

international frameworks and commitments (such as e.g. the SDGs))”

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Patricia BohlandCoordinator of the Women and Gender Constituency / LIFE –Education Sustainability Equality

Biographies – Facilitators

Poorvaprabha Patil United Nations Major Group

for Children and Youth Regional Focal Point

Poorvaprabha serving as the UNMGCYSDG 3 Regional Focal Point for the AsiaPacific region, is a final year medicalstudent from India. She is the President ofthe Medical Students Association of India(MSAI)- a network of 20000+ medicalstudents across India; and serves as anExecutive Board member of the YoungProfessionals Chronic Disease Network (YPCDN). She is a global health and climateaction advocate, with a particular interestin the climate-health intersection. In 2016,she also co-founded an NGO called‘Lumina Vitae’ that works on access tohealthcare in India and works with diversecommunities and vulnerable groups.

Patricia BohlandCoordinator of the Women and Gender Constituency /

LIFE – Education Sustainability Equality

Patricia graduated in Political Science on gender sensitive approaches in the Clean Development Mechanism. Since then she has been working on regional cooperation and climate justice issues. Currently she is coordinating the Women and Gender Constituency in the UNFCCC. Based in Germany, she is working on education for sustainable development and advocating for gender-just climate action on national level as well.

Sibyl NelsonGender Advisor, Office of

Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO Headquarters

Sibyl has more than 12 years ofinternational experience in the social andgender dimensions of climate change,agriculture, and rural development. Shecurrently works on two FAO-UNDPprogrammes, NAP-Ag and SCALA, whereshe leads gender mainstreaming inadaptation planning and NDCimplementation in twenty countries inAsia, Africa and Latin America, focusing onagriculture. She has conducted multi-disciplinary research and deliveredcapacity development activities to a rangeof stakeholders on gender and disaster riskreduction as well as gender, food securityand climate change.

Mozaharul Alam Regional Coordinator, Climate

Change Programmeat UNEP in Asia-Pacific region

Mozaharul served the Ministry ofEnvironment and Forests, Government ofBangladesh, and undertook inclusiveprocess and formulated NAPA. In 2099, hejoined UNEP where he provides strategicand technical guidance to design andimplementation climate change actions.He has attended climate changenegotiations for more than two decadesand has coordinated adaptation group ofG77 and China during 2007 to 2009. Hehas worked as Lead Author for WorkingGroup II for IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.

Kavita NaiduClimate Justice Programme

Officer, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and

Development (APWLD)

Kavita is an international human rightslawyer from Fiji working in climate justiceat the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Lawand Development (APWLD) in Thailand.She works with grassroots women in alltheir diversity from Asia and the Pacific tobuild a feminist climate justice movement.Recently, she joined ProgressiveInternational as a Council member to workwith activists from around the world tohelp shape a new progressive internationalorder centered on all people’s well being.Outside of work, you’ll find her withfriends on a beach or along a mountaintrek.

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