Coordinating Climate-Resilient Development

The NAP Global Network supported Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guinea-Conakry, Madagascar, and Togo in conducting gender analyses to ensure climate adaptation is gender-responsive. The analyses revealed that while legal frameworks for gender equality exist, they are rarely linked to climate policies, and women remain under-represented in decision-making for climate-vulnerable sectors. The document argues that context-specific gender analysis is essential to avoid exacerbating inequalities and to unlock women's potential as agents of change in adaptation.

• Existing national gender policies in the analyzed countries often lack explicit links to climate change and adaptation, and are frequently inaccessible to climate change actors because they are not available online, with Togo being the only exception.
• There is a systemic disconnect between gender and climate change focal points within governments; these actors typically operate in separate policy priorities and rarely undertake joint activities due to weak or nonexistent coordination mechanisms.
• Institutional capacity for gender mainstreaming is limited across the studied countries, characterized by small ministries with weak convening power and a lack of qualified personnel and financial resources.
• Gender gaps in basic services, such as literacy and education, hinder women's ability to access information and participate in adaptation planning. For instance, in Togo, nearly half of adult females were illiterate in 2015 compared to just over 20% of men.
• Adaptation strategies must account for gender-specific roles within sectors; for example, in Côte d’Ivoire's agricultural sector, women primarily handle subsistence production while men manage commercial crops like cacao.
• Women are significantly under-represented in decision-making roles within climate-vulnerable sectors. In Madagascar, women held only 6% of decision-making posts from the community to the national level.
• 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.

APA

Dekens, J., & Dazé, A. (2019). Coordinating Climate-Resilient Development. NAP Global Network. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/napgn-en-2019-conducting-gender-analysis-to-inform-nap-processes.pdf

Chicago

Dekens, Julie, and Angie Dazé. Coordinating Climate-Resilient Development. NAP Global Network, 2019. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/napgn-en-2019-conducting-gender-analysis-to-inform-nap-processes.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{dekens2019coordinating, author = {Dekens, Julie and Dazé, Angie}, title = {{Coordinating Climate-Resilient Development}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2019}, month = mar, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/napgn-en-2019-conducting-gender-analysis-to-inform-nap-processes.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }