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In Madagascar, women held only 6% of decision-making posts from the community to the national level.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000181#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Green Climate Fund's (GCF) Readiness Programme has become a primary driver for integrating gender into NAP processes, as addressing gender issues is one of the 10 criteria for proposal review.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000181#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["national adaptation plan","climate change adaptation","climate finance","Green Climate Fund","gender equality","climate migration"],"geography_discussed":["Africa"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","institutional analysis","technical analysis"]},{"id":"napglob-000331","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/napglob-000331","title":"Realización de análisis de género para orientar los procesos del Plan Nacional de Adaptación (PNAD): Reflexiones de seis países de África","publisher":{"name":"NAP Global Network","organization":"nap-global-network"},"document_type":"briefing","language":"es","date_published":"2019-03","source_url":"https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/napgn-es-2019-conducting-gender-analysis-to-inform-nap-processes.pdf.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The NAP Global Network supported Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guinea-Conakry, Madagascar, and Togo in conducting gender analyses to ensure climate adaptation investments are equitable and sustainable. The process involved institutional, normative, and technical analyses to identify how gender dynamics influence climate vulnerability and adaptation capacity. Key findings highlight a gap between existing general gender policies and their application in climate planning, as well as significant gender disparities in education, decision-making, and sectoral roles. The document recommends a participatory, multi-expert approach to gender analysis and emphasizes the role of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in incentivizing gender-responsive NAPs.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000331#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"While the six analyzed countries have legal and normative frameworks for gender equality, these policies rarely explicitly reference climate change or adaptation, and are often inaccessible to climate stakeholders because they are not available online (except in Togo).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000331#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Institutional capacities for gender integration are limited; although ministries for gender exist, they are often small, recently established, and lack sufficient qualified personnel and funding. For example, in Guinea, very few of the approximately 100 officials in the Direction for the Promotion of Women and Gender have the capacity to provide gender training.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000331#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Gender disparities in basic services hinder women's roles as adaptation agents. In Togo, nearly half of adult women were illiterate in 2015 compared to 20% of men, and in Madagascar, men dominated technical and professional training enrollment at 75% in 2014.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000331#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Climate adaptation strategies must account for distinct gender roles within sectors. In Côte d'Ivoire's agricultural sector, women primarily handle subsistence farming while men manage commercial crops like cocoa; in Benin's fishing sector, men typically fish while women handle drying and smoking for sale.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000331#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Women are significantly underrepresented in decision-making roles within climate-vulnerable sectors. In Madagascar, women held only 6% of decision-making positions at community and national levels, and in Benin, they occupied only 22% of public sector decision-making roles, with representation decreasing at higher hierarchical levels.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000331#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a primary driver for gender integration in NAPs, as it is the largest multilateral climate fund and requires gender considerations as one of its ten review criteria for funding proposals. 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