Integrating Gender Considerations Into Ghana’s National Adaptation Plan Process: A Strategy for the Green Climate Fund Adaptation Planning Readiness Project

The summary brief describes Ghana's commitment to a gender-integrated National Adaptation Plan (NAP) to address differing climate vulnerabilities between men and women. It identifies key gender-related barriers—such as unpaid work, discriminatory social norms, and gaps in resource access—and proposes specific entry points for integration, including risk assessments and institutional arrangements. The strategy emphasizes the necessity of disaggregated data to inform evidence-based policies and establishes principles for gender-responsive governance, such as equal representation in decision-making and the use of gender analysis in adaptation appraisals.

• Gender, often intersecting with age, race, ethnicity, disability, class, and location, significantly influences an individual's vulnerability to climate change and their capacity to adapt. Effective adaptation requires addressing these inequalities and recognizing the role of women's unpaid and informal work in household and community resilience.
• Women face systemic barriers to climate adaptation, including under-representation in decision-making due to prejudiced beliefs and social norms, as well as gender gaps in access to services, resources, and education, particularly for marginalized groups.
• The collection and analysis of data disaggregated by gender, age, wealth, ethnicity, location, education, disability, and class are essential for creating evidence-based policies and targeted adaptation actions. This requires providing training to statistical offices in the collection and analysis of such data.
• The strategy identifies several key entry points for integrating gender into the GCF project, including the establishment of institutional arrangements (such as Climate Ambassadors), climate risk and vulnerability assessments, economic appraisals of strategies, the development of district-level plans, and private sector engagement.
• To ensure a gender-responsive approach, Ghana intends to include gender considerations in the Climate Change Bill, establish a gender code of conduct, ensure equal representation of men and women in institutional mechanisms, and engage the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection.

APA

NAP Global Network (2020). Integrating Gender Considerations Into Ghana’s National Adaptation Plan Process: A Strategy for the Green Climate Fund Adaptation Planning Readiness Project. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/napgn-en-2020-integrating-gender-considerations-into-ghanas-nap-process.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. Integrating Gender Considerations Into Ghana’s National Adaptation Plan Process: A Strategy for the Green Climate Fund Adaptation Planning Readiness Project. 2020. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/napgn-en-2020-integrating-gender-considerations-into-ghanas-nap-process.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2020integrating, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{Integrating Gender Considerations Into Ghana’s National Adaptation Plan Process: A Strategy for the Green Climate Fund Adaptation Planning Readiness Project}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2020}, month = aug, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/napgn-en-2020-integrating-gender-considerations-into-ghanas-nap-process.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }