1. The Adaptation Fund’s Gender Guidance Document for Implementing Entities (IEs) on
Compliance with the Adaptation Fund Gender Policy (hereinafter “Gender Guidance Document”)
was developed in March 2017. The Fund’s updated Gender Policy and Action Plan1
(approved
in March 2021) acknowledges and integrates the need to apply an intersectional analysis in
addressing gender-related differences in vulnerability and ability to decrease vulnerability and
adapt to climate change impacts as a lens to understand the complexity and particularity of
inequalities in the lives of women and girls, men and boys, including their systemic barriers and
root causes.
2. To make it align with the Fund’s updated Gender Policy and Action Plan, the Gender Guidance Document has been updated, reflecting the result of the surveys of the Fund’s Implementing Entities, Designated Authorities, Fund’s Civil Society Network and other partner organizations on the need of the gender guidance.
3. The updated Gender Guidance Document provides supplemental information and practical guidance for IEs to comply with the Fund’s Gender Policy and to enhance their gender responsive mainstreaming throughout project lifecycle from project design, implementation, monitoring to evaluation, in an intersectional manner. It also contains a number of gender mainstreaming toolkits such as respective checklists for a preliminary gender analysis required for concept note and gender assessment required for fully developed project proposals, examples for sector-specific gender assessment considerations, and examples of genderresponsive indicators by sectors or theme.
4. The updated Gender guidance document is contained in this document and submitted to the Board for information.
2. To make it align with the Fund’s updated Gender Policy and Action Plan, the Gender Guidance Document has been updated, reflecting the result of the surveys of the Fund’s Implementing Entities, Designated Authorities, Fund’s Civil Society Network and other partner organizations on the need of the gender guidance.
3. The updated Gender Guidance Document provides supplemental information and practical guidance for IEs to comply with the Fund’s Gender Policy and to enhance their gender responsive mainstreaming throughout project lifecycle from project design, implementation, monitoring to evaluation, in an intersectional manner. It also contains a number of gender mainstreaming toolkits such as respective checklists for a preliminary gender analysis required for concept note and gender assessment required for fully developed project proposals, examples for sector-specific gender assessment considerations, and examples of genderresponsive indicators by sectors or theme.
4. The updated Gender guidance document is contained in this document and submitted to the Board for information.