At COP 22 and SBI 45 in Marrakech, Parties continued their consideration of issues under the Gender and Climate Change agenda item (SBI Agenda Item 16 / COP Agenda item 15). In accordance with decision 23/CP.18 and decision 18/CP.20. Parties reviewed progress made towards the goals of gender balance and the implementation of gender-responsive climate policy and decided to continue and enhance the Lima Work Program on Gender (LWPG) for a period of 3 years (FCCC/SBI/2016/L.37), to be reviewed at COP25 in 2019.
The activities to be implemented are:
- training for delegates on gender and climate change;
- capacity building / negotiation skills for women delegates;
- a set of in-session workshops in 2018 & 2019;
- technical guidance on entry points related to gender across other bodies of the UNFCCC
- requesting both technical bodies and Parties, as well as the Financial mechanism, to enhance communications and reporting on progress implementing gender-responsive climate policy
- requesting that a gender perspective be considered in the organization of the technical expert meetings on mitigation and adaptation
- inviting Parties to appoint and provide support for a national gender focal point for climate negotiations, implementation and monitoring.
In order to drive the work of the LWPG, Parties agreed to the development of a ‘Gender Action Plan’.
