Vers un processus de plan national d’adaptation qui répond aux questions de genre en Haïti

The report identifies systemic gender inequalities in Haiti—particularly regarding land ownership, credit access, and decision-making power—that increase the vulnerability of women and girls to climate change. It assesses the legal and institutional framework, noting that while gender units exist in ministries, they lack sufficient climate change expertise and coordination with the Ministry of Environment. The document proposes a four-axis strategy focusing on awareness, capacity building, institutional strengthening, and gender-responsive budgeting to ensure that climate adaptation benefits are equitably distributed.

• Women and girls in Haiti face significant disparities in resource control that hinder their climate adaptation capacities, including lower rates of land ownership (8% of women in rural areas vs 20% of men) and limited access to agricultural credit, where women represent only 26.2% of applicants.
• Climate change increases the domestic burden on women, specifically by exacerbating the unequal distribution of drinking water and forcing women to travel further to supply households.
• Gender inequality persists in governance and decision-making, with women occupying only 35% of leadership positions and 28.6% of total public service roles in Haiti.
• Although the Ministry of Women's Affairs and Women's Rights (MCFDF) has established Gender Units in sectoral ministries (UGM), these units generally lack the specific knowledge required for climate change adaptation and suffer from limited collaboration with the Ministry of Environment (MDE).
• Haiti's legal framework for climate change is primarily based on international treaties, such as the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement, as the country lacks specific domestic laws on climate change.
• The proposed gender integration strategy for the NAP is organized around four priority axes: awareness and communication, capacity building for stakeholders, institutional strengthening (including the National Committee on Climate Change), and gender-responsive budgeting.
• To ensure equitable adaptation, the report recommends integrating gender experts into the development of the NAP's monitoring, evaluation, and learning system to collect sex-disaggregated data and identify gender equality indicators.

APA

Gedné, C. (2023). Vers un processus de plan national d’adaptation qui répond aux questions de genre en Haïti. NAP Global Network. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/napgn-fr-2023-haiti-gender-analysis.pdf

Chicago

Gedné, Carine. Vers un processus de plan national d’adaptation qui répond aux questions de genre en Haïti. NAP Global Network, 2023. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/napgn-fr-2023-haiti-gender-analysis.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{gedn2023vers, author = {Gedné, Carine}, title = {{Vers un processus de plan national d’adaptation qui répond aux questions de genre en Haïti}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2023}, month = nov, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/napgn-fr-2023-haiti-gender-analysis.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }