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Gender Mainstreaming
In NAP-Ag Process in Uganda
Presentation Outline
• Background to GM in NAP-Ag
• Previous experience in GM in other projects
• Status of GM in NAP-Ag activities in Uganda
• GM plans for upcoming activities
• Entry points/Opportunities
• Institutional Obstacles
• Way forward
Background-Importance of gender in agriculture and climate change
• Agriculture is the backbone of Uganda
• Contributes 23% the country’s GDP
• Employs about 80% of the population , out of which about 76 % are women
• Holds a big potential for providing employment for youth. -80% of population are young people
• Yet women still have very limited access and control over the key productive assets
Impacts of climate change on gender
• Everyone is affected, but not equally due to gender conditions that determine the position of different categories of people
• Women and youths (especially girls) have limited access and control over the productive capital assets like land, finances etc.
• Women have limited participation in decision making, benefits from farm proceeds due to the patriarchy system that tends to favor men
• Hence failure to deliberately target them with a gender lens leads to automatic discrimination
National Adaptation plan for the Agriculture Sector
Uganda has a NAP with 8 adaptation actions
– Crop production
– Livestock development
– Fisheries management
– Forestry, land and natural resource management
– Climate information, early warning and disaster preparedness systems
– Research for climate resilient agriculture development
– Knowledge management and partnerships for climate action
– Gendered approach to climate change adaptation
Gendered approach to climate change adaptation
Objective:• To promote a gender responsive climate smart
agriculture programme to address the gender gaps in agriculture
Planned Gender Actions
• Conduct a comprehensive gendered climatechange impact assessment on agriculture
• Develop and implement a targeted genderand climate change capacity supportprogramme
• Develop and support a gender , agricultureand climate change coordination mechanismthrough gender climate platforms
Cont’d
• Customize and support gender responsive climate smart agriculture budgeting, planning and implementation
• Develop a framework to address/mainstream gender and vulnerable group’s issues in agriculture and climate change policies, plans, programmes and projects
• Assess and document climate smart gender responsive technologies based on locations that promote women’s economic empowerment
Milestones
• Conducted a gender analysis
• Mainstreamed gender in the 4 sub-sectors (Crop, livestock, fisheries and forestry)
• Developed an adaptation action on gender with in the NAP-Ag
• Developed a costed gender work plan for the NAP-Ag
• Co-partners with other organizations to engage the parliamentary forums on climate change and food security
• Gender Capacity assessment and stock-taking
Future plans
• Capacity building of actors/stakeholders to have a deliberate gender lens during policy, planning, technology development and implementation
– Research institutes studies and technology development
– Policy makers and politicians –policy development and budget advocacy
– Planners – account for gender responsive climate change plans, budgeting and implementation at central and local government levels
– Extension staff –technology transfer and impact evaluation
– Farmers – climate change adaptation implementation and impact evaluation
– Institutional capacity building for accountability on gender and climate change at all levels
Entry Point/Opportunities for Gender mainstreaming in Uganda
• Government policies
• Institutions –ministry of gender with a climate change focal person and in other sectors
• Training institutions –School of women and gender studies- a diploma on climate and gender
• FAO and UNDP gender policies
• Climate change policy with a gender component
• Planning guidelines –crosscutting-climate change and gender
Institutional Challenges in mainstreaming Gender
• Unclear mechanisms on how to influence/impact on filling of the gender gaps
• Limited capacity of gender focal persons and technical persons
• Limited resourcces
• No clear translation of gender mainstreaming concept at different levels –roles, responsibilities and rights, equality and equity
• Limited scope of gender inclusiveness i.e. of other categories
• Limited coordination among stakeholders working on gender
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Way forward• Need for more focus to beneficiaries of climate change adaptation
action at farmer levels
• Validate impacts of increased efforts through networks andplatforms to reduce the gender gaps, through evaluation usingstandard tools
• Need to develop standard national gender responsive indicators forclimate change adaptation in the agriculture sector
• Translate the training in climate smart gender responsive planningand budgeting into action in response to climate changeschallenges and impacts at farmer level/grass root
• Need to promote gender household methodologies and genderawareness to transform mind-set, attitudes, cultural practices andperceptions