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GENDER AT COP23 The UNFCCC has moved into a phase of urgent implementation of climate action, and the key for gender under the UNFCCC is a focus on tools, methods, activities and guidance to support the implementation of gender-responsive policies at national level. Decision 21/CP.22 mandated the continuation and enhancement of the Lima Work Programme on Gender for a period of three years, followed by a review of the programme at COP25 in November 2019. The decision also requested the SBI to develop a gender action plan (GAP) under the Lima work programme for consideration at SBI 47 in November 2017, which will support the implementation of gender-related decisions and mandates under the UNFCCC process. The mandate for the GAP states its objective is “to support the implementation of gender-related decisions and mandates under the UNFCCC process, which may include key result areas, key activities and indicators, timelines for implementation, the responsible and key actors and indicative resource requirements for each activity, and further elaborate its process of review and monitoring”.Thus, in designing activities under the GAP, Parties would consider which actions might, for instance, help them to “consider the positive and negative impacts of the implementation of response measures to mitigate climate change on women and children”, as was mandated in Decision 2/CP.17. Follow-up questions could be: how can Parties go about making these considerations? what information is needed, how can it be collected? which actors should be involved? what is the timeframe for the action? The focus on the GAP is the ‘how’ – how Parties can push forward actions to achieve the mandates they have set for themselves. 4