This Gender and Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan provides for integrating gender equality into biodiversity conservation and climate resilience efforts, and recognises that achieving gender equality is essential for sustainable biodiversity conservation. The Strategy aims at: mainstreaming gender into biodiversity policies and institutions; strengthening women’s participation in decision-making; ensuring equitable access to biodiversity-based livelihoods; improving gender-disaggregated data and monitoring; promoting awareness and behavioural change. The overall goal is to build a gender-responsive biodiversity governance system that ensures equitable participation, sustainable livelihoods, and effective conservation outcomes in The Gambia. The strategic objectives of the Action Plan focus on: policy and institutional mainstreaming; capacity building and training; community engagement and participation; livelihoods and benefit-sharing; monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management; communication, education and public awareness.
冈比亚 · 2025-12-01