Toolbox

Gender checklist: nationally determined contributions
Explore the essential gender elements for defining specific targets and indicators to be incorporated into the nationally determined contributions, whether through sectoral actions, or national NDC implementation plans and/or strategies.
Toolkit for a gender-responsive process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans (NAPs)

Learn about integrating gender-responsive approaches throughout the different stages of the NAP process. In addition, the toolkit provides detailed guidance on steps practitioners can take to integrate gender into the enabling activities that occur throughout the process, for example, in the engagement of stakeholders and capacity development.

Inter-agency minimum standards for gender-based violence in emergencies programming

Explore the inter-agency minimum standards for gender-based violence (GBV) in emergencies programming, which define what agencies working on specialised GBV programming need to achieve to prevent and respond to GBV and deliver multi-sectoral services. The minimum standards are in English, French and Spanish and accompanied by a facilitators guide, PowerPoint presentation, posters and a contextualisation tool.

Handbook for coordinating gender-based violence in emergencies

Explore this employment policy tool, which offers analytical frameworks and data suggestions to enable assessment of the gender differentiated employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis at the country level. It also identifies policy options to promote gender-responsive national employment strategies. The tool also considers interactions between the paid and the unpaid economy and is organised in several steps.

Gender-responsive indicators: gender and NDC planning for implementation

Find out more on how to ensure indicators are gender-responsive for NDC project implementation, including identifying what additional information is required to make indicators gender-responsive, and devising gender-responsive indicators for different sectors.

CADRI guide and check-list: intégration de la dimension genre dans le diagnostic des capacités en réduction des risques de catastrophe et adaptation au changement climatique

Learn how to assess vulnerabilities and gender inequalities, before, during and after a disaster, and how  to identify whether institutions and politics are gender responsive. [Note this guide is in French]

Gender analysis and nationally determined contributions (NDCs)
Find out how to conduct a gender analysis for nationally determined contributions (NDCs) including providing recommendations on gender-responsive policy alignment, institutional coordination, capacity building, sex-disaggregated data collection, and finance into the priority NDC sectors.
Principles of research ethics
Explore this guidance for practitioners on conducting stakeholder consultations post disaster impact and specifically with marginalised groups such as survivors of gender-based violence and people with disabilities.
Gender mainstreaming: gender analysis
Gender analysis provides the necessary data and information to integrate a gender perspective into policies, programmes and projects.
Women’s capacity building and empowerment in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation

Explore six modules prepared by UN Women to help the Government of Bangladesh adopt gender-responsive policy measures to reduce the vulnerability of women affected by climate change and build more resilient livelihood options: