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Burundi

New or Updated NDC

Analysis of Updated NDC

Timeframe

2021 to 2030

Relevant context

Developing country with increasing shifting weather patterns exacerbated by climate change.

Process for developing NDC

The Ministries of Environment and Agriculture took charge of preparing the updated NDC. This process was facilitated by 10 national experts, including sectoral experts, an economist, gender specialist, climate expert, health expert and an international consultant. Several exchange workshops were also held, with civil society stakeholders representing, or with interests in, local communities, indigenous peoples, the gender dimension and social inclusion.

Description of Monitoring and/or Implementation Mechanism

Burundi has various national policies and strategies and a preliminary National Adaptation Plan (2020).

Summary of gender reference

The Updated NDC states it will integrate cross-cutting themes such as gender, health, and social inclusion into prioritization of actions. The gender and social inclusion issues will be in line with national plans and policies. The document also drew from data gathered from sectoral workshops, which took gender mainstreaming into account.

Considerations on gender, youth, and vulnerable groups are also specifically mentioned as a strategic axis related to adaptation. Moreover, energy, infrastructure and agricultural projects in the NDC are to “inform and sensitize women, youth and Batwa as actors in the reduction of greenhouse gases” and build the capacity of these groups so as to “bring about a change in practices and optimize integrated landscape management and sustainable food value chain to increase the adoption of resilient and improved production systems."

Burundi Updated NDC

Gender Analysis Summary
Submitted NDC	Yes
Submitted language	French
Submitted translation	No
NDC commitments	Mitigation Adaptation
Type of support	Conditional Unconditional
Participatory process for NDC development mentioned	Yes
Monitoring and/or implementation	Implementation
Reference to women/gender	Yes
Gender Tags	B GS
Context of gender reference	Adaptation Mitigation

Analysis of Original NDC

Timeframe

2016-2030

Relevant context

Burundi is a landlocked country at the heart of Africa’s Great Lakes Region and belongs to two major river basins: the Nile Basin and the CongoBasin. The current production structure, dominated by subsistence farming, makes the economy very vulnerable and fragile due to its dependency on climate conditions.

Process for developing NDC

As a precursors to the INDC Burundi had already created the Burundi Vision 2025 and translated into a short term action plan as part of the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategic Framework covering the period of 2012-2015.

Description of Monitoring and/or Implementation Mechanism

Monitoring programs to be incorporated with financial assistance.

Summary of gender reference

In relation to implementation of the INDC, it states: Gender, youth and vulnerable groups are concerns that have not always been taken into account in Burundi's national and sectoral socioeconomic development plans. In its Vision 2025, the Government of Burundi considers these to be crosscutting issues to be incorporated into all development programmes. The same will apply to implementation of the INDC. In relation to adaptation, it states: The country needs to strengthen the aptitudes of actors (especially women and farmers) in new technical processes, in the interest of intensified, sustainable production methods (new crop systems and techniques).

Burundi NDC

Gender Analysis Summary
Submitted NDC	Yes
Submitted language	French
Submitted translation	Yes
NDC commitments	Mitigation Adaptation
Type of support	Conditional Unconditional
Participatory process for NDC development mentioned	Yes
Monitoring and/or implementation	Monitoring
Reference to women/gender	Yes
Gender Tags	B GS
Context of gender reference	Adaptation

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Related Resources

How to Do: Design of Gender Transformative Smallholder Agriculture Adaptation

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Author

Vidhya Sriram

Year

2018

Country

Citation

Sriram, V. (2018). How to Do: Design of Gender Transformative Smallholder Agriculture Adaptation Programmes, Gender and Climate Change Adaptation, CCAFS/IFAD’s Learning Alliance for Adaptation in Smallholder Agriculture, IFAD.

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