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planning frameworks, through an improvement of policy and programme implementation and encouraging sustainability as well as an outlining of the gender mainstreaming process tailored to the National Communications process. In addition, the UNFCCC, via a mandated technical paper, has identifed existing tools to be used across a number of thematic areas and actions. These include gender analysis, project preparation and design, gender-responsive budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and in the assessment of social benefts of involving women and men equally in climate change activities. Related to gender analysis activities, a few institutions have created tools that could prove useful for Parties and other institutions. Two frameworks that support conducting a gender analysis are the Harvard Analytical Framework and the Moser Gender Planning Framework. The Asian Development Bank has also created a few Gender Checklists, specifcally for certain sectors. The UN Development Programme (UNIDO) has published a document on gender mainstreaming within energy, titled Guide on Gender Mainstreaming – Energy and Climate Projects, which includes a checklist of questions that can be used to understand certain aspects of gender within specifc contexts and sectors, like decision-making power, access to resources, etc. The last tool, a Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis Framework, was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization, which partnered with the International Labour Organization, the World Bank and the UNDP to aide in incorporating gender into initiatives and interventions. Within project, programme, and policy preparation and design, UNIDO has created a set of questions that can be used to guide the mapping of partnerships and stakeholders,