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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
