Additional Resources

In order to mainstream gender, the Secretariat has also taking into consideration the approaches followed under other multilateral environmental agreements and related entities:

1. The GEF Gender Equality Action Plan;
2. The Convention on Biological Diversity and gender:
   
   • Decisions by the Conference of the Parties adopted at its ninth and tenth meetings;
   • Gender Plan of Action (2008);
3. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and gender:
• Decision by the Conference of the Parties adopted at its eighteenth meeting (No23/CP.18);
• “Options and ways to advance the gender balance goal - Submissions from Parties and observer organizations” (Conference of the Parties, nineteenth session, 2013);
• Working document on Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) member and partner activities, twentieth session of the Conference of the Parties, December 2014;
4. The Montreal Protocol and gender: Decision of the Conference of the Parties No XXIV/8, selected paragraphs;
5.  General Assembly Resolution 70.1 Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, October 2015
6. “FAO Policy on Gender Equality, Attaining Food Security Goals in Agriculture and Rural Development.”
7. UNEP Policy and Strategy for Gender Equality and the Environment 2014-2017, February 2015