Enhanced LWPG and its GAP

At COP 25 Parties agreed a 5-year enhanced Lima work programme on gender and its gender action plan (Decision 3/CP.25).

At COP 26 Parties adopted the Decision 20/CP.26. The Decision includes, among other, aspects of the review of the Gender Action Plan implementation. 

At COP 27 Parties concluded the intermediate review of the implementation of the gender action plan that started at SB 56 in June 2022. The review included amendments to some deliverables and three new activities in priority areas C and E (Decision 24/CP.27)

GAP priority areas

The enhanced gender action plan sets out objectives and activities under five priority areas that aim to advance knowledge and understanding of gender-responsive climate action and its coherent mainstreaming in the implementation of the UNFCCC and the work of Parties, the secretariat, United Nations entities and all stakeholders at all levels, as well as women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in the UNFCCC process.

Who has a role in the implementation of the GAP?

* ‘Other’ actors explicitly mentioned include: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform Facilitative Working Group, Adaptation Fund, Global Environment Facility, Green Climate Fund, private sector and philanthropic financial institutions.