Page 25 - Pocket Guide to Gender Equality under the UNFCCC

response measures, requests developing country Parties to address gender considerations when developing and implementing national strategies or action.n Decision 2/CP.17 urges Parties to consider the positive and negative impacts of the implementation of response measures to mitigate climate change on women and children.n Decision 12/CP.17 states that guidance on systems for providing information on how safeguards are addressed and respected (related to REDD+) should respect gender considerations.n Decision 1/CP. 20 calls for the effective engagement of women in the technical examination process for opportunities with high mitigation potential.Gender considerations could be improved in relation to mitigation in many areas. For example, there are no guidelines on integrating gender into Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the way that there are guidelines to do so for NAPs and NAPAs. This type of guidance would be very useful for Parties given that most climate fnancing instruments have requirements for gender considerations, as elaborated below. Some countries have already taken the lead on integrating gender in NAMAs. Vanuatu’s NAMA calls for “increasing private sector involvement in rural electrifcation and encourages fostering women-run enterprises”,10 and the Republic of Georgia’s NAMA, was “designed to improve access to solar water heaters and improved stoves for 100,000 women and men in rural Georgia, reducing 48,000 tons of CO2.” 11TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND DEVELOPMENT Gender considerations are important to ensure women and men have equal access to the value chain of climate responsive