By 2030, Dominica aims to ensure a gender-responsive approach to biodiversity action, including women’s meaningful participation and leadership, gender-responsive budgeting where relevant, and sex-disaggregated monitoring of benefits. The target aims to ensure that women and girls have equal opportunities and capacity to contribute to and benefit from biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and benefit sharing. Implementation will recognise their knowledge and contributions, address barriers to participation and access to resources, and promote equitable outcomes across biodiversity policies, programmes and investments.

Dominica aims to integrate gender considerations across NBSAP implementation, national targets, project design, financing and reporting. A practical implementation framework will define objectives, responsibilities, resource needs and measurable outcomes. Gender analysis will inform biodiversity programmes by examining roles, knowledge, workloads, decision-making and access to resources and benefits. Findings will guide project activities, participation arrangements and budgets, with attention to differences in needs and circumstances. Measures will support women’s meaningful participation and leadership through appropriate representation objectives, skills development and accessible engagement. Implementation will build on established Kalinago participation and work with Kalinago women and governance institutions to reflect community priorities. Gender-responsive budgeting will be applied where relevant, including resources to address practical participation barriers and support equitable access to training, finance and enterprise opportunities. Monitoring will use sex-disaggregated data alongside feedback on influence, access and benefits to assess outcomes and guide improvements.

Access to financial resources: Gender-responsive budgeting and accessible financing arrangements will support equitable access to biodiversity funding, training, equipment and enterprise opportunities.

Collective effort towards the targets: Implementation promotes shared responsibility across public institutions, businesses, civil society and communities for gender-responsive biodiversity action.

Consistency with international agreements or instruments: The target supports gender-responsive implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the CBD Gender Plan of Action.

Contribution and rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities: Implementation will recognise the knowledge, rights and contributions of Kalinago women and girls and women in local communities, supporting meaningful participation through culturally appropriate arrangements.

Cooperation and synergies: Gender considerations will be integrated across biodiversity governance, sustainable livelihoods, conservation, finance and knowledge management.

Formal and informal education: Equal access to practical training, education, digital tools and leadership development will strengthen opportunities to participate and influence outcomes.

Fulfilment of the three objectives of the Convention and its Protocols, and their balanced implementation:The target promotes equal opportunities to contribute to and benefit from conservation, sustainable use and fair and equitable benefit sharing.

Gender: Gender analysis, participation measures, appropriate budgeting and sex-disaggregated monitoring will help identify and address inequalities throughout implementation.

Human rights-based approach: Measures will promote non-discrimination, safe and meaningful participation, equal rights and access to land and natural resources, and equitable benefits.

National circumstances, priorities and capabilities: Implementation will build on women’s existing contributions to biodiversity and livelihoods, using practical approaches suited to national capacity, community circumstances and disaster-related pressures.

Whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach: Coordination across institutions and inclusive engagement will support the consistent application of gender considerations, including participation by Kalinago women and local communities.

National Target 23 addresses gender-responsive biodiversity implementation through women’s meaningful participation and leadership, gender-responsive budgeting where relevant, and sex-disaggregated monitoring of benefits. These measures support equal opportunities to contribute to and benefit from the Convention’s three objectives. The current target title does not explicitly state women’s equal rights and access to land and natural resources or refer specifically to all women and girls. These are areas for clarification as implementation arrangements are developed, rather than evidence of deliberate exclusion. Implementation can further specify how barriers will be addressed and how participation will translate into influence and equitable outcomes. Monitoring will assess leadership, access to resources and benefits alongside participation numbers.

No formal non-State actor commitments are recorded towards this national target. Opportunities for voluntary contributions and partnerships can be further developed during implementation.

Additional financing, technical assistance and institutional capacity are needed to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity planning, budgets and monitoring. Priorities include practical guidance, staff training, baseline information and consistent methods for collecting and using sex-disaggregated data. Dedicated resources will support women’s participation and leadership, including appropriate training, enterprise assistance and measures addressing barriers such as timing, care responsibilities, transport and access to information. Support will reflect the priorities of Kalinago women and women in local communities. Clear responsibilities and regular review will help translate analysis into activities, budgets and measurable outcomes. Implementation will account for differences in access to resources, institutional capacity and the need to sustain participation without creating unnecessary burdens.