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approaches to water and climate change, and ecosystem-based approaches. In response to these decisions, the LEG drafted Technical Guidelines for the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process in 2012. These guidelines included a key goal of strengthening gender considerations and considerations regarding vulnerable communities. The Guidance is particularly useful as it contains a number of suggested activities for integrating gender considerations within the NAP process. This includes for example, using sex-disaggregated data in vulnerability and adaptation assessments. A few years later, the secretariat produced a technical paper on Best practices and available tools for the use of indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices for adaptation, and the application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for understanding and assessing impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. A joint meeting on the same topic in 2014, between the Adaptation Committee, the Nairobi Work Programme and expert stakeholders, followed up on this. A report of the meeting included recommendations for practitioners on the use of indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices for adaptation, and the application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for understanding and assessing impacts. Outside of the UNFCCC, actors are taking action to support countries to integrate gender. For example in 2016, the NAP Global Network, a group of individuals and institutions working to enhance national adaptation planning and action in developing countries, hosted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), began a pilot analysis of how gender considerations are being integrated into national adaptation planning documents. Initial analysis indicated