By 2030, gender equality in biodiversity conservation and NBSAP implementation is achieved and valued, assuring equal rights and access to land and natural resources, and equitable opportunities for meaningful participation and leadership at all levels, including the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from biodiversity and natural resources.

Policy: NBSAP 2026-2030, Circular Strategy on Environment (2023-2028), and MOE’s Gender Mainstreaming Strategic Plan in Environment (2021-2025)

Actions: Cambodia will ensure gender equality in biodiversity governance through implementation of the NBSAP 2026–2030, aligned with the MOE Gender Mainstreaming Strategic Plan in Environment (2021–2025), the Circular Strategy on Environment (2023–2028) and national gender policies. Time-bound representation targets and sex-disaggregated indicators will strengthen women’s leadership and participation in conservation decision-making. Gender analysis will be integrated into planning, budgeting and monitoring systems. Equitable access to land, natural resources and benefit-sharing mechanisms will support women’s livelihoods and promote gender-transformative biodiversity action.

The target positions gender equality as an implementation condition for biodiversity success, linking it to rights, access, and participation. Actions focus on targeted capacity building and leadership development for women and girls, gender-responsive project design, and standardised sex-disaggregated reporting so progress is measurable. This approach requires mainstreaming across institutions and programmes rather than treating gender as a standalone activity.

Cambodia broadly aligns on equality and participation/leadership, but GBF is more explicit on a gender-responsive approach, and on women and girls’ full, equitable, meaningful and informed participation and leadership across action and decision-making.

to be analyzed if we need to have additional means of implementation