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respectively in 2016. The Advisory Board of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), the Kyoto Protocol’s Compliance Committee enforcement branch, the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism, the Green Climate Fund and the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) all have less than one-ffth of their members who are women, despite mandates on gender balance in many of the operational guidance documents. This trend, namely a lack of sustained progress in enhancing the representation of women, is why decisions on gender under the UNFCCC continue to have a strong focus on gender balance. However, a broader understanding of gender balance as only one aspect of fully integrating gender into the implementation of policies has also evolved among Parties and stakeholders, leading to the more robust decisions on gender from 2012 onwards, as well as to calls at COP23 for the development of a gender action plan (GAP) to move the process from words to action. GENDER CONSIDERATIONS INCLUDED ACROSS THEMATIC AREASWhile key ‘stand-alone’ decisions on gender have been evolving since 2001, gender references have also been included in all of the thematic issues of the negotiations. These gender mandates have been compiled by the UNFCCC secretariat in a technical paper. Part of the work of the Lima Work Programme on Gender and any subsequent GAP is to enhance implementation of these already existing gender mandates.The Cancun Agreements at COP16 marked an important turning point for gender mainstreaming in the negotiations, particularly in the areas of adaptation and capacity building. Decision 1/CP.16 on a ‘Shared Vision’ for climate action 4