Submitted by
silesj
on Fri, 10/02/2026 - 23:20
General Information
Resolution
52701
Period covered
Resolution implementation status
31-60% - Moderate
Activities to implement this Resolution from Activity Reports
| Relevant operative para(s) of Res/Rec | Activities Overview | Description | Status | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2a | Field activities | “Enhancing climate resilience of Biodiversity Hotspots in Jordan" project, implemented by IUCN ROWA in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, provides support to women’s involvement in native-seedling production and land restoration through the Petra and Shoubak nurseries, connecting conservation with employment and livelihood opportunities. | On-going | Full activity report |
| 2b | Policy influencing/advocacy | ROWA in partnership with UNEP and GCF, through JILMI’s Gender Action Plan provides a framework for integrating gender equality and social inclusion into landscape and water management, with emphasis on national policies, women’s meaningful participation in decision-making and equitable access to adaptation resources and benefits. | On-going | Full activity report |
| 2c | Convene stakeholders/Networking | Through Al-Murunah+, ROWA provides technical guidance and oversight to women’s rights organisations on milestone deliverables; regular coordination; review against donor and IUCN standards; documentation of lessons; and advisory support on women’s economic empowerment interventions. | Completed | Full activity report |
| 2d | Scientific/technical activities | Cross-programme GESI technical support at ROWA; gender review of proposals, ToRs and reporting; preparation of a donor and climate-fund gender-policy requirements datasheet for proposal development; and gender capacity-building and awareness activities | On-going | Full activity report |
| 2e | Scientific/technical activities | ROWA provides gender-responsiveness analysis within METT, site-level assessment, Gender Action Plan progress tracking, and reporting on women and youth in climate decision-making. Al-Murunah+: quarterly gender reporting and MEL sheets. Additional work includes integrating gender considerations into Green List and protected-area management-effectiveness tools. | On-going | Full activity report |
| 4a | Education/Communication/Raising awareness | ROWA supported the translation and publishing of Gender-responsive restoration guidelines (Arabic): an Arabic edition of IUCN’s guidelines on gender in the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM), published on the IUCN Library. The guidelines help make restoration assessment, forest landscape restoration and land-use planning gender-responsive. They are now available to Arabic-speaking practitioners across the region. | Completed | Full activity report |
| 4b | Scientific/technical activities | Through "Delivering a Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Programme for Southern Iraq – Basra Marshes" project, ROWA in partnership with SIDA contributed to women’s leadership and climate resilience through providing technical and capacity-building support to women’s groups and networks in vulnerable areas, where they disseminated knowledge to their communities on gender and climate-resilience capacity building. | Completed | Full activity report |
| 1c | Capacity building | ROWA Provided technical guidance and capacity strengthening to partners and local communities, including in highly conservative contexts such as Ma’an (Jordan) and Basra (Iraq), ensuring context-sensitive and effective implementation of inclusive interventions. | Completed | Full activity report |
| 3a | Scientific/technical activities | ROWA’s portfolio provides regional examples of women’s participation, gender-responsive conservation planning, partner capacity strengthening and gender MEL that could feed into IUCN’s consolidated reporting. | On-going | Full activity report |
| 4b | Convene stakeholders/Networking | Through the “Siltation Reduction in The King Talal Dam Watershed For Enhancing Water Security” project, ROWA in partnership with Netherlands adopt a gender-responsive and socially inclusive approach to promote equitable participation, ensure that diverse knowledge and perspectives inform implementation, and support balanced benefit-sharing across stakeholder groups. Particular attention will be given to how watershed degradation, land management practices, and climate impacts that affect women and men differently, as well as to the roles of women and marginalized groups as knowledge holders and contributors to sustainable resource management. | On-going | Full activity report |
| 4a | Education/Communication/Raising awareness | Through the TAZIZ project, funded by Global Affairs Canada, IUCN ROWA produced the “Highly Environmental!” podcast to share local insights and practical experiences from Shoubak and Petra on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration and climate adaptation, including initiatives empowering women and youth to participate in environmental protection. | Completed | Full activity report |
| 2c | Fundraising | RISE grant challenge lead by the Human Rights in Conservation Team has provide access to finance by US$ 1.2 millions to local organizations to prevent, mitigate and respond to GBV | On-going | Full activity report |
| 4a | Scientific/technical activities | CEESP in collaboration with other organizations hosted a side event at SBI-7 in Nairobi to respond the question how can regional and subregional support centres within the Technical and Scientific Cooperation (TSC) Mechanism become genuine partners for gender-responsive KM-GBF implementation? | Completed | Full activity report |
| 4a | Scientific/technical activities | CEESP in collaboration with other organizations hosted a side event hosted a side event at SBSTTA-28 in Nairobi focused on the total absence of gender-responsive data in the systems meant to monitor and report on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF). The session brought together technical experts, government representatives, and community researchers to share evidence, identify gaps, and chart a path toward more inclusive monitoring. | Completed | Full activity report |
| 3a | Policy influencing/advocacy | IUCN has updated its gender policy in June 2026 and the policy is in alignment with the CBD Gender Plan of Action 2023–2030 and ensure IUCN programmatic work and initiatives contribute to promote gender equality, women’s empowerment, and the reduce of risks like Gender Based Violence | Completed | Full activity report |
| 3a | Field activities | UICN Secretariat Work Plan has incorporated into the Outcome: PEOPLE. Output 2 " Promoting gender equality in conservation" actions to advance the implementation of the resolutions |
On-going | Full activity report |
| 3a | Policy influencing/advocacy | IUCN did a submission of information in preparation for the mid-term review of the Gender Plan of Action 2023-2030 CBD Notification 2025-103. | Completed | Full activity report |
| 3a | Policy influencing/advocacy | IUCN has updated its gender policy in June 2026 and the policy is in alignment with the CBD Gender Plan of Action 2023–2030 and ensure IUCN programmatic work and initiatives contribute to promote gender equality, women’s empowerment, and the reduce of risks like Gender Based Violence | Completed | Full activity report |
| All | Policy influencing/advocacy | France has launched its 2025-2030 feminist diplomacy strategy at the end of 2025. One of its objectives is to promote a feminist climate and environmental action, by better mainstreaming gender in international environmental negociations, in strategies, in bilateral and multilateral finance, to build on women's scientific and traditional knowledge, and support their participation in decision making, to support Women’s Peace and humanitarian Fund. | On-going | Full activity report |
Actors involved from Activity Reports
| IUCN Members | IUCN Commissions | IUCN Secretariat | Other non-IUCN related organisations |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Challenges / lessons learned from Activity Reports
| Challenges / lessons learned | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Insufficient / lack of resources | Limited sustained funding and technical support for women’s groups and community-led initiatives, including support beyond project completion. |
Full activity report |
| Coordination issues | Limited community engagement with local organisations and governmental entities to reach women and vulnerable groups consistently |
Full activity report |
| Lack of awareness / engagement | Social norms, unpaid care responsibilities and practical barriers can limit women’s participation in consultations, training and natural-resource decision-making. |
Full activity report |
| Monitoring and accountability issues | Limited availability of sex-disaggregated baseline data and longer-term evidence on women’s access to resources, influence in decision-making and benefits from conservation interventions. |
Full activity report |
| Insufficient / lack of resources | Differences in community needs and vulnerabilities require locally tailored approaches, particularly for rural women and groups facing intersecting barriers. |
Full activity report |
| Insufficient / lack of resources | Due to political and funding context at this moment has been very difficult to find donors to be interested in contributing to maintain RISE funding |
Full activity report |
| Other (please specify) | The TSC Mechanism has a clear political mandate for gender-responsive implementation but they need technical support and tools to do it mandate |
Full activity report |
| Other (please specify) | a lesson learned is that without gender-disaggregated data and the meaningful participation of women in generating it, biodiversity monitoring will keep missing the people whose knowledge and labor sustain conservation on the ground and the policies built on that incomplete picture will remain less robust than they need to be |
Full activity report |
| Insufficient / lack of resources | it has been more difficult to get funds to implement actions related to gender equality due to the actual funding and political environment |
Full activity report |
| Other (please specify) | the lesson learned is that in order to ensure IUCN’s contribution to the implementation of the CBD Gender Plan of Action (2022–2030) is done by its programmatic and initiatives, a policy with mandate and alignment to the GPA has to be in place |
Full activity report |
| Other (please specify) | - Drop in finance (especially ODA) |
Full activity report |
Report status
Published
1. Conducting gender analysis during project design and developing and implementing gender action plans.
2. Allocating adequate budgets and technical staffing to promote gender equality and social inclusion.
3. Establishing measurable gender indicators and collecting, analysing, and reporting sex-disaggregated data, as well as data disaggregated by other relevant social categories, according to the context of the project area. In addition, the policy promotes institutional consistency by embedding gender-responsive approaches throughout the project cycle, including project design, appraisal, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
The implementation of the Gender Equality Policy will help ensure that IUCN’s programmes, projects, and initiatives contribute to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment, while also reducing and addressing risks such as gender-based violence (GBV).
The inclusion of human rights-based and gender-responsive approaches in IUCN’s 2026 Work Plan also contributes to advancing Resolution 51. In preparation for the next IUCN World Conservation Congress, work has begun to ensure that issues related to gender equality in biodiversity policies, programmes, actions, and funding are considered across relevant Congress streams and sessions. RISE grant mechanism is the only one focus on addressing the links of gender inequalities and environment.
Challenges and Areas Requiring Further Attention
Despite this progress, several challenges remain. Access to funding to promote gender equality has become increasingly difficult due to changes in donor priorities and political decisions. In addition, gender capacity remains uneven across IUCN’s regions and Centres, which can affect the consistency and quality of implementation.
Continued and targeted technical support, guidance, capacity building, and resource mobilization will therefore be important to strengthen institutional capacity and ensure consistent implementation of gender-responsive approaches across IUCN’s programmes and operations.