Gender and NDCs - UNFCCC

MAINSTREAMING GENDER INTO NDCs

PRESENTED BY: SYEDA HADIKA JAMSHAID DATE: 14/10/2020

PAKISTAN GENDER SNAPSHOT

Population by Sex and Urban- Rural 2017

51%

48.8%

Urban Rural 36%

64%

0.005%

Men Women Transgender

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GENDERED NATURE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Women can be more vulnerable to impacts of climate change and are less able to successfully cope and adapt ? societal constraints and gender

roles ? limited access to resources ? Little or no decision-making

power

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WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY THAN MEN TO BE AFFECTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE

? 80% of people displaced by climate change are womenUnited Nation

? There is a need for gender sensitive responses to the impacts of climate change, yet the average representation of women in national and global climate negotiating bodies is below 30%

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GENDER MAINSTREAMING

Mainstreaming involves ensuring that gender perspectives and attention to the goal of gender equality are central to all activities - policy development, research, advocacy/ dialogue, legislation, resource allocation, and planning, implementation and monitoring of programmes and projects - UN Women

? NDC serves as a starting point for Gender Mainstreaming

? Allows both advancing the fulfilment of women's human rights and gender equality while effectively addressing the multiple challenges that climate change poses.

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