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enhancing procedures to support local direct access to climate fnance for women’s groups, including grassroots and indigenous women, and enhancing national level coordination mechanisms. E) Monitoring and reporting Finally, this cluster suggests activities to track progress on gender responsive policies, plans and actions; track progress on gender balance and women’s participation; and improve reporting and outreach on the implementation of gender mandates under the UNFCCC.To ensure inclusiveness and effective implementation and delivery of GAP results, innovative methods such as “open calls” to stakeholders to implement specifc activities of the GAP, and hosting of Expos and Market Places as platforms for information and knowledge sharing will be used.KEY NEXT STEPSA comprehensive, targeted and resourced two-year GAP is an important outcome for COP23, in order to urgently advance gender-responsive and human rights based climate policy and action. The actions should support a step-change in capacity for, and implementation of, gender-responsive climate policy development, delivery and reporting at national level, particularly via gender budgeting in climate programming. Actions should also increase the availability of sex- and gender-disaggregated data and analysis at all levels, looking at both the impacts of climate change as well as the impacts of climate change policies and actions. Analysis should include data based on local and traditional knowledge, including women’s traditional knowledge. Finally, actions should support meeting the goal of gender balance in all aspects of climate change policy-making, on delegations, 4