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boards and bodies of the UNFCCC, as well as at regional and national level, and ensuring the full and effective participation of grassroots and indigenous women in these spaces. Equally important to a robust GAP is the understanding that, to be effective, gender must continue to be integrated across all thematic areas and recognised as a key element in the implementation guidelines of the Paris Agreement. Gender cannot be seen as a separate and silo-ed issue. It is critical that delegates negotiating across all aspects of the UNFCCC understand the linkages and make demands for gender considerations in those areas. A recently released report, Delivering on the Paris Promises: Combating Climate Change while Protecting Rights, provides a roadmap for how to tackle climate change under the Paris Agreement in a way that integrates fundamental human rights and social and environmental principles enshrined in the treaty. This includes guidance on how key human rights and environmental and social principles set forth in the preamble of the Paris Agreement, should be integrated into the Paris implementation guidelines, particularly Nationally Determined Contributions, Adaptation Communications, the Transparency Framework, and the Global Stocktake (without precluding its relevance to other aspects of work under the UNFCCC).