Promoting gender-transformative approaches can help ensure that the project positively impacts gender equality. Here are the strategies that the project will consider:

  1. Conduct gender analysis: A gender analysis can help identify the specific gender roles and responsibilities, power dynamics, and social norms that impact women and men differently concerning climate change and mitigation. The findings of the gender analysis can then be used to inform project design and implementation.
  2. Gender mainstreaming: Integrate gender considerations into all aspects of the project, from planning and implementation to monitoring and reporting. This should include improving women's access to resources and decision-making opportunities, sensitising project participants about gender roles, and addressing gender-specific needs and constraints.
  3. Gender expertise: Ensure that the project team has gender expertise, either through having a gender expert on the team or by collaborating with a women's rights group. This will help ensure that gender issues are adequately addressed throughout the project cycle.
  4. Ensure equal access to project benefits: The project should ensure that all genders have equal access to project benefits, including capacity-building opportunities, information, and resources. This can be achieved, for example, by addressing barriers that women may face in accessing these benefits, such as lack of time, mobility, or decision-making power.
  5. Monitor and evaluate the project's impact on gender: It is crucial to monitor and assess its impact on gender equality. This can be done by collecting sex-disaggregated data, tracking the participation of women, LGBTQIIA+ and men in project activities, and assessing changes in gender roles and relationships resulting from the project. The monitoring and evaluation findings should then be used to inform future project design and implementation.
  6. Gender risk assessment: Conduct a risk assessment to identify any potential negative impacts of the project activities on women and the LGBTQI+ community and develop mitigation measures to address these risks. This will help ensure the project does not unintentionally exclude women from decision-making processes or reinforce gender inequalities.

Gender-responsive indicators

These are the gender-sensitive indicators for the strategy:

  1. Proportion of women and men participating in project activities (output indicator)
  2. Percentage of women and men reporting increased awareness of gender roles and gender equality (outcome indicator)
  3. Number of project activities specifically designed to address gender-specific disadvantages and promote gender equality (output indicator)
  4. Percentage of women and men reporting increased access to resources and decision-making opportunities as a result of the project (outcome indicator)
  5. Number of sex-disaggregated data collected and analysed in project monitoring and reporting (output indicator)
  6. Percentage of project activities where women and men have equal representation and participation (output indicator)
  7. Number of unintended negative impacts on women identified and addressed through project activities (output indicator)
  8. Chosen by Women rather than men to reflect the specific needs and priorities of women.