CHM - ORTNational Target
General
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Target 22 and 23: By 2030, participation by women, youth, and indigenous people will have been mainstreamed into public sector strategies and planning associated with sustainable natural resource management and environmental protection.
ENThe target is meant to improve equality among groups in discussions and input for biodiversity and resources management. The GBF targets 22 and 23 are similar and have been combined here into one target.
Policies to ensure gender and indigenous participation in resources decisions.
The Gender Strategy and Action Plan
Alignment
GBF-G-B. Biodiversity is sustainably used and its contributions to people are maintained, enhanced or restored
| Global Targets | Degree of Alignment |
GBF-T22. Ensure participation, justice, and rights for indigenous peoples and local communities, women, youth persons with disabilities and environmental defenders GBF-T22. Ensure participation, justice, and rights for indigenous peoples and local communities, women, youth persons with disabilities and environmental defendersEnsure the full, equitable, inclusive, effective and gender-responsive representation and participation in decision-making, and access to justice and information related to biodiversity by indigenous peoples and local communities, respecting their cultures and their rights over lands, territories, resources, and traditional knowledge, as well as by women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities and ensure the full protection of environmental human rights defenders. | High |
GBF-T23. Implementation follows a gender-responsive approach GBF-T23. Implementation follows a gender-responsive approachEnsure gender equality in the implementation of the framework through a gender-responsive approach where all women and girls have equal opportunity and capacity to contribute to the three objectives of the Convention, including by recognizing their equal rights and access to land and natural resources and their full, equitable, meaningful and informed participation and leadership at all levels of action, engagement, policy and decision-making related to biodiversity. | High |
Access to financial resources
Collective effort towards the targets
Consistency with international agreements or instruments
Contribution and rights of indigenous peoples and local communities
Cooperation and synergies
Different value systems
Gender
Human rights-based approach
Intergenerational equity
National circumstances, priorities and capabilities
Whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach
Inclusiveness in decision-making improves 'ownership' of resources and allows for diverse inputs and opinions. It is especially important that under-represented segments of civil society be allowed to contribute.
None of the Goals explicitly deal with inclusiveness, but Goal B is about sustainable management which does include an ILC and gender component.
Target 22 and 23 are strongly aligned.
Indicators to be used to monitor this national target
B.1 Services provided by ecosystems
22.b Number of countries taking action towards the full, equitable, inclusive, effective and gender responsive representation and participation in decision-making, and access to justice and information related to biodiversity by indigenous peoples and local communities, respecting their cultures and their rights over lands, territories, resources and traditional knowledge, as well as by women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities, and the full protection of environmental human rights defenders
23.b Number of countries with legal, administrative or policy frameworks, inter alia, to implement the Gender Plan of Action (2023–2030), to ensure that all women and girls have equal opportunity and capacity to contribute to the three objectives of the Convention, including by ensuring women’s equal rights and access to land and natural resources
B.b Number of countries with policies or actions for implementing and monitoring the sustainable use of biodiversity and the maintenance and enhancement of nature’s contributions to people, including ecosystem functions and services
23.CT.2 Indicator on national implementation of the Gender Plan of Action (2023–2030)
22.CY.5 Proportion of population who believe decision-making is inclusive and responsive, by sex, age, disability and population group
Non-State actor commitments
N/A
Means to implementation and barriers to implementation
Yes (Additional means of implementation are needed for the attainment of this national target)
Combined efforts among public and private sectors, development partners, INGOs, and CSOs, as well as the participation of local communities are needed.
N/A
Additional information
N/A