FINANCING GENDER EQUALITY IN THE GREEN TRANSITION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: A TOOLKIT TO INTEGRATE GENDER IN CLIMATE POLICIES

The ongoing transition to a low carbon economy is leading to important socioeconomic transformation in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The green transition can help governments align their development priorities and strategies and leverage the green transformation to deliver other development goals. Gender equality and women’s and youth employment are critical priorities across many countries in sub-Saharan Africa for example. The formulation of climate change and green transition policies such as National Determined Contributions (NDCs) or National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) can help governments accelerate progress towards gender equality, leveraging multiple gender equality co-benefits and achieving positive outcomes for women’s empowerment, while accelerating climate action. This toolkit helps governments and other stakeholders involved in the process of formulation or revision of climate change and green transition policies such as NDCs or NAPs to identify opportunities to maximize co-benefits of gender equality and climate action. An important focus of the toolkit is on financing of gender equality priorities in the NDCs, by helping decision-makers to identify opportunities for financing of gender equality actions in the NDC process. It uses a sectoral approach, identifying gender-climate nexus in the key sectors of NDCs in Sub-Saharan Africa, namely : agriculture, forestry and coastal ecosystems, energy, transport,waste, water, and disaster risk reduction. For each of these sectors, the toolkit includes a summary of the main gender impacts and co-benefits and provides a checklist to help obtain information about them at the national level.