Gender reference
The Conference of the Parties,
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Reiterating that the Gender Action Plan is a good starting point for actions to mainstream gender,
Strategic objectives
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8. Urges Parties to mainstream gender inclusivity to further strengthen the implementation of the Convention and land degradation neutrality and ensure long-term success;
Implementation of the Gender Action Plan
9. Encourages Parties to fully implement the four priority areas of the Gender Action Plan: (a) Participation; (b) Land rights and access to resources; (c) Access to knowledge and technologies; (d) Economic empowerment in the implementation of the Convention and the achievement of land degradation neutrality;
10. Requests the secretariat to propose concrete activities and measures with a clear road map to be included in the Gender Action Plan to provide impetus and a focus on actions relating to both women and men and girls and boys;
11. Also requests the secretariat to enhance advocacy and policy guidance in order to systematically mainstream gender in the implementation of the Convention by implementing the Gender Action Plan through, inter alia: raising awareness; promoting collaboration between desertification/land degradation and drought specialists and experts on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; ensuring scientific work generated by the Convention is gender inclusive; engaging national gender equality mechanisms; improving capacities on gender analysis; and securing the necessary political support to ensure systematic gender mainstreaming in desertification/land degradation and drought;
12. Encourages Parties, as appropriate, to create enabling environments at national and subnational levels to make the implementation of the Convention gender-responsive and transformative, including by:
(a) Implementing policies and legal reforms that remove structural barriers to women’s equality, secure land use and tenure rights; and inheritance, in accordance with the national context, for women;
(b) Promoting women’s leadership and women’s and girls’ full and equal participation in decision-making, including over land;
(c) Promoting consultative processes that engage women at all levels in order to promote women’s and girls’ participation in the development and implementation of relevant plans and programmes;
(d) Coordinating and integrating the needs of women and girls within other plans and ensuring that women have an active role in project design from project inception;
13. Requests the secretariat and the Global Mechanism, within their respective mandates and subject to the availability of resources, to conduct in-house learning and capacitybuilding to support Parties in order to realize the full potential of measures to combat desertification/land degradation and drought and ensure such learning and capacity-building is gender-responsive;
14. Further requests the Secretariat and the Global Mechanism, within their respective mandates and subject to the availability of resources, to dedicate staff with adequate expertise for developing and providing policy guidance and guidelines to support the implementation of the Gender Action Plan as described in paragraph 11 and manage the related results;
15. Requests the secretariat to strengthen gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation in the implementation of the Gender Action Plan, building on existing good practices and guidelines, by (a) collaborating with relevant partners to gather sex- and age-disaggregated data, including the use of gender responsive indicators to measure women’s empowerment at project level; and (b) presenting the data in user-friendly formats.
