RINA is part of the Gender Equality in Climate Action Accelerator
05 Dec 2022
How can women’s inclusion be part of climate change strategies and policies?
All over the world, climate change presents the biggest threat to sustainable and equal development.
Why women’s inclusion in climate change strategies and policies?
Gender analysis usually utilizes a combination of qualitative and quantitative data to understand if, how and why women and men are affected differently within a particular context or sector and what their differentiated potential to contribute to the green transition is.
In the climate change context, the gender analyses should also provide an understanding of the differential perspectives and circumstances of women and men within the targeted sectors, including their needs, rights, priorities, roles and controls over resources and decision-making processes.
Going beyond climate policies and actions, the gender analyses might reflect the systemic gaps in access to education, labour opportunities, health services, or other areas, and the associated differences in benefits or outcomes relevant for climate change.
What is the GECA Accelerator?
To effectively equip relevant stakeholders with the capacity to address the gaps within their climate-related strategies and implement gender-sensitive climate change mitigation and adaptation actions, we are taking part in the Gender Equality in Climate Action Accelerator launched by The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the French Development Agency (AFD), in partnership with the Egyptian government.
The GECA Accelerator is a new and innovative tool that allows companies and national policy makers to identify target actions to fully embed gender into their strategies and policies and to thereby foster climate action. The tool helps private and public users to assess how gender-responsive their climate strategies and actions are and to identify areas that are gender-blind. Moreover, by means of a comprehensive list of best practices, it suggests what actions can be adopted to improve the gender-sensitiveness of the strategy/policy.
The tool is online and has been launched by the EBRD at the COP27 in Egypt.
