Gender Mainstreaming in Mitigation and Technology Development and Transfer Interventions: Capacity-Building Package

This Capacity-Building Package from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is written for "policymakers to guide them on how to promote gender equality across all levels of policy and programming in climate change, and to provide them with the necessary tools to do so." The UNDP and partners are working to promote gender equality and women's empowerment on global and local levels of the climate negotiations processes and "to systematize gender mainstreaming across all levels of the a climate change initiative."
The toolkit is divided into two sections. Part one is a "Gender Mainstreaming Toolkit." There are three main topics:

• "The rationale for integrating gender into climate change actions.
• A set of practical tools that may be applied at various stages of programme/policy formulation and implementation.
• A case study from Cambodia that exemplifies how gender has been incorporated into climate change programming and national policies."

The tools in the document include: Tools for Planning/Designing Gender-Sensitive Climate Change Policies:

• Tool: Gender Analysis
• Tool: Gender Impact Assessment
• Gender Impact Assessment: An Example from Bhutan (LECB)
• Tool: Gender Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment
• Tool: Gender Action Planning
• Operationalizing Gender-Responsive Climate Finance on the Ground: Recommendations
• Tool: Gender-Responsive Budgeting

Tools for Assessing Results:

• Tool: Gender Audits
• Gender-Sensitive Indicators
• Tool: Gender-Disaggregated Data Collection

Tools for Reporting Results:

• Tool: Measuring, Reporting and Verification

Part two of the toolkit consists of five briefing notes containing gender and climate issues as they pertain to energy, water, transport, housing, and waste management. The briefing notes "can be used as stand-alone documents to develop a basic understanding and give ideas about possible entry points for gender work in these sectors."