Bridging the GAP from Access to Action

At COP 25 Parties adopted the 5-year enhanced Lima work programme on gender and its Gender Action Plan (Decision 3/CP.25), encouraging Parties to appoint and provide support for national gender and climate change focal points (NGCCFP) for climate negotiations, implementation and monitoring. The COP also requested the secretariat to facilitate support for building and strengthening the skills and capacities of national gender and climate change focal points. Under the Gender Action Plan, activity A.2 of priority area A (capacity-building, knowledge management and communication), established the provision of capacity-building opportunities, tools and resources. Activity D.2 of priority area D (gender-responsive implementation and means of implementation), aims to raise awareness of the financial and technical support available for promoting the strengthening of gender integration into climate policies, plans, strategies, and action. In response to these mandates the UNFCCC secretariat, AF, GCF and GEF collaborated to deliver a training to NGCCFPs during COP 28. UNDP and Care for Climate contributed to the training. This informal summary includes links to presentations and recordings and a summary of the question-and-answer segments.