Toward a Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan Process in Haiti

The document outlines the gender-based vulnerabilities in Haiti's climate-sensitive sectors—agriculture, health, infrastructure, and water—and assesses the legal and institutional frameworks for gender mainstreaming. It highlights significant disparities in land ownership, credit access, and decision-making power between men and women. To address these, the report proposes a gender mainstreaming strategy focusing on awareness, capacity building, inclusive institutional arrangements, and gender-sensitive budgeting, while recommending the integration of gender experts into the National Climate Change Committee (NCCC) and municipal planning processes.

• Women and girls in Haiti face significant inequalities in access to and control of critical resources. In rural areas, only 8% of women own land compared to 20% of men, and in urban areas, ownership is 6% for women versus 12% for men. Men control 77.3% of the total livestock population, while women control 22.3%. Furthermore, women represent only 26.2% of credit applicants for agriculture.
• Gender disparities exist in education, labor, and decision-making power. Adult men are significantly more likely to have completed secondary and tertiary education than women. In terms of labor, 53% of women's time is devoted to household chores, and climate change increases their burden by forcing them to travel longer distances for drinking water. In the public sector, women make up 28.6% of civil servants and occupy only 35% of managerial positions.
• Haiti possesses a legal framework for gender equality, including a Constitution that imposes a 30% quota for female representation in the public sphere and a gender equality policy (2014–2034) managed by the Ministry on the Status and Rights of Women (MCFDF). However, the Ministerial Gender Units (MGUs) struggle to influence climate change adaptation due to limited cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) and a lack of specific climate change knowledge.
• The NAP gender mainstreaming strategy identifies four key areas for action: awareness raising and communication, capacity strengthening for stakeholders, the establishment of equitable and inclusive institutional arrangements, and gender-sensitive budgeting.
• To accelerate gender mainstreaming, the report recommends including gender experts and representatives from the MCFDF in the National Climate Change Committee (NCCC) and expanding the 'femmes-négos' platform into a multistakeholder technical committee. It also suggests formalizing the roles of gender focal points within the MoE and sectoral ministries through clear terms of reference.
• The report emphasizes the need to integrate gender equality into municipal climate change adaptation plans and the overall NAP monitoring and reporting system. This includes using gender-sensitive vulnerability analyses for municipal plans and employing gender experts to ensure the collection of sex-disaggregated data and the evaluation of gender-differentiated impacts.

APA

Gedné, C. (2023). Toward a Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan Process in Haiti. NAP Global Network. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/napgn-en-2023-toward-a-gender-responsive-nap-process-haiti.pdf

Chicago

Gedné, Carine. Toward a Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan Process in Haiti. NAP Global Network, 2023. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/napgn-en-2023-toward-a-gender-responsive-nap-process-haiti.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{gedn2023toward, author = {Gedné, Carine}, title = {{Toward a Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan Process in Haiti}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2023}, month = nov, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/napgn-en-2023-toward-a-gender-responsive-nap-process-haiti.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }