Adaptation of agricultural production systems in Coastal Areas of Northwest Guinea-Bissau

The Gender Action Plan for the SAP025 project in northwest Guinea-Bissau aims to reduce gender inequality by prioritizing women, who will make up 70% of the target beneficiaries. The plan focuses on increasing women's participation in farmers' clubs, improving access to literacy and income-generation education, and addressing time-poverty through the establishment of community childcare systems. To ensure implementation, the project will employ a gender specialist to oversee activities, provide quarterly training for staff, and review materials for gender sensitivity. The project is structured around three outcomes: strengthening climate risk monitoring, adapting water management, and enhancing the resilience of smallholder agricultural systems, all of which include specific targets for female participation in leadership and decision-making. Monitoring will involve sex-disaggregated data and the tracking of specific vulnerable sub-groups of women, such as widows, heads of households, and those with disabilities.

• The project aims to prioritize women's empowerment, targeting women to constitute 70% of the beneficiaries for climate-resilient sustainable development.
• To address time-poverty and barriers to participation, the project will organize community-based childcare systems to be maintained locally after the project ends.
• Due to low literacy rates among women in the target areas, the project will use gender-responsive materials featuring instructive pictures and drawings, audio messages via WhatsApp, and the provision of literacy classes.
• A dedicated gender specialist will be recruited to provide oversight, conduct quarterly follow-up training for staff, and ensure that all IEC materials use a gender-sensitive approach.
• The project sets specific gender-parity targets for leadership and participation across its three outcomes, including a goal of 30% female participation in leadership/decision-making positions within the Observatory Group (OG) and 70% female membership in the Community Observer team (OC).

APA

Green Climate Fund (2022). Adaptation of agricultural production systems in Coastal Areas of Northwest Guinea-Bissau. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/sap025-gender-action-plan.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Adaptation of agricultural production systems in Coastal Areas of Northwest Guinea-Bissau. 2022. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/sap025-gender-action-plan.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2022adaptation, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Adaptation of agricultural production systems in Coastal Areas of Northwest Guinea-Bissau}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2022}, month = oct, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/sap025-gender-action-plan.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }