Informal meeting on gender

An informal meeting on gender was convened on 28 and 30 November 2019 by the COP 25 Presidency and the governments of Costa Rica, the European Union, Peru and Uruguay during the pre-sessional period to provide a space for Parties to further advance the review of the LWGP and GAP before entering negotiations.

The first day was open to both Parties and observers and the second day, only open to Parties, aimed to build on previous work in preparation for SBI 51.

Provisional annotated agenda available here>>>

Key inputs for the review

The informal documents containing a summary of the status of implementation of the LWPG/GAP, as well as a comprehensive list of the recommendations for an improved LWPG/GAP have been prepared by the secretariat and was updated as further submissions were received. The executive summary and the synthesis report on the implementation of the LWPG and its GAP provide a synthesis of the information submitted by Parties, NGOs, IGOs and UN Entities; contains analysis of areas of progress, areas for improvement and further work to be undertaken in subsequent action plans.

The COP/SBI considered the following documents at COP 25

• Progress in integrating a gender perspective in constituted body processes – 2019
• Gender composition report - 2019

The review of the Lima work programme on gender and its gender action plan

Both the Lima work programme on gender and the gender action plan were under review. To facilitate the deliberations and review by Parties at SBI 51 the secretariat is sharing relevant documents and information on the review on this webpage.