Gender and REDD+: an overview

Gender and REDD+: An overview

Presentation Overview

Past: What has happenedGender in the UNFCCC Warsaw Framework

Present: Where we areRecent International and National efforts

Future: Where we should go? Common issues and ideas to move forward

What has happened

It requests parties when developing and implementing their national strategies to address: drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, land tenure issues, forest governance issues, gender considerations and the safeguards ensuring the full and effective participation of relevant stakeholders, inter alia, indigenous peoples and local communities.

In the Cancun Agreement (FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1 decision 1/CP.16 paragraph 72)

2. Agrees that systems for providing information on how the safeguards referred to in appendix I to decision 1/CP.16 are addressed and respected should, taking into account national circumstances and respective capabilities, and recognizing national sovereignty and legislation, and relevant international obligations and agreements, and respecting gender considerations.

Durban Outcomes (FCCC /CP/2011/9/Add.2)

Some Issues Addressed• Strategic/ Action Plans• Safeguards and Standards • Capacity Building• Land Tenure and Property Rights• Benefit Sharing • FPIC• Inclusion and Governance

Where we are

International

National

Local/Project

Recent Efforts at Multiple ScalesCIFOR Role of Women in Early Implementation

CIEL Using International Law to Advance Women’s Tenure Rights in REDD+ Ecuador Diagnostic and action plan to mainstream gender in REDD+ Strategy Uganda, Ghana and Cameroon review Gender and REDD+ Actions Plans

Yucatan Peninsula addressed gender considerations in safeguard process Lam Dong's Provincial REDD+ Gender Analysis of Action Plan

Common Issues and Challenges• Lack of recognition as stakeholders and

contributors to SFM and conservation

• Participation, Inclusion and Decision Making are not correlated

• Integration of women’s rights and customary rights

• Barriers to guarantee land tenure rights

• Young women “double exclusion”

Common Issues and Challenges

• Lack of access to information

• Unsafe conditions for women to express complaints/grievances

• Benefit Sharing exclusion

• Exclusion from community monitoring

• Elite capture of resources

Common Issues and Challenges

LAST MINUTE ADD-ON SEPARATE AGENDA

Where we should go?

Gender Blind

Gender Sensitive

Gender Transformative

Gender Responsive

Efficient, effective and equitable REDD+ Programme

Effective, equitable, sustainable and just results.

Challenges success of REDD+ programme and its safeguards

Positive development outcomes and transformation of unequal gender relations

Establish Target and Define Goals

Develop Conceptual Framework

RECOGNITION

PROCEDURE DISTRIBUTION

CONTEXT

IIED and IUCN have proposeda three dimension framework to addressequity in REDD+

3 Dimension Equity Framework through a Gender Lens

PROCEDURE DISTRIBUTION

RECOGNITION

• Recognition & respect of rights

• Respect for knowledge and institutions

Land Tenure

Recognition of women & youth

Respect and protection of rights

Identifications of inequalitiesFPIC

RECOGNITION

DISTRIBUTION

PROCEDURE

• Effective participation• Access to information & capacity building• Access to justice

Decision-Making

Barriers for involvement

Access information/CB

Safety and JusticeExclusion Monitoring

3 Dimension Equity Framework through a Gender Lens

RECOGNITION

DISTRIBUTION

DISTRIBUTION• Benefits equally • Benefits according to

contribution to mitigation

• Benefits according to rights

• Benefits to reflect costs

• Benefits according to basic needs

Elite Capture

Exclusion from BSM

Costs, contributions, needs

Impact AssessmentTradeoffs

3 Dimension Equity Framework through a Gender Lens

Define a gender ‘transformative’ implementation of projects & forest

activities

Muchas Gracias!!!! Andrea Quesada

Independent Consultantemail andrea.gender.climate@gmail.com