GENDER ASSESSMENT

The gender assessment for the Peruvian Amazon Eco Bio Business Facility (EBBF) identifies systemic gender inequalities in Peru's forestry and agricultural sectors, including limited land ownership, high rates of informal employment, and significant gaps in education and decision-making power. It highlights that women in the Amazon face particular vulnerabilities due to lower Spanish language proficiency and higher poverty levels. To address these, the document proposes six mitigation measures: requiring portfolio companies to create gender-specific action plans, promoting women's leadership in eco and bio businesses, ensuring equitable access to project benefits, implementing a gender-sensitive complaint mechanism (including SEAH protocols), strengthening the capacity of project management units, and establishing a monitoring system for the Gender Action Plan (GAP).

• The forestry sector is characterized by a severe lack of sex-disaggregated data, which hinders policy planning. Women's activities in this sector are primarily concentrated in the informal economy, specifically in wood energy, SMEs, and non-wood forest product (NWFP) value chains.
• Women in Peru's agricultural sector face significant disparities in land ownership compared to men. Nationally, women producers own an average of 1.8 ha of agricultural land and 2.8 ha of non-agricultural land, while men own 3 ha and 4 ha respectively.
• Female-headed households in Peru are more economically vulnerable and have less access to technology and assets than male-headed households. Only 28% of female-headed households have internet access, and only 30% own a computer or laptop.
• Women's participation in the labor market is marked by high informality and poor job quality. As of 2018, the informal employment rate for women was 75.3%, and 73.9% of female workers held jobs of 'poor or very poor quality'.
• Gender-based violence is prevalent in the EBBF's target areas, with some departments exceeding the national average of physical violence by partners. In Cusco, 45.7% of women and in Puno, 42.3% of women have suffered physical violence.
• Significant educational gaps persist, particularly for women with a mother tongue other than Spanish, who have an illiteracy rate of 24.6%—triple the national average. In rural areas, this figure rises to 33.0%.
• Women are severely underrepresented in sub-national government decision-making bodies, with men making up 95.2% of local authorities.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2022). GENDER ASSESSMENT. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/ga-fp193.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. GENDER ASSESSMENT. 2022. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/ga-fp193.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2022gender, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{GENDER ASSESSMENT}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2022}, month = feb, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/ga-fp193.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }