Burkina Faso Social Review

Produced by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Burkina Faso Social Review provides an overview of the legal and policy framework for Burkina Faso on gender equality and women’s empowerment, social protection and inclusion, and climate change. The overall recommendation for Burkina Faso is the revision of its NDC to create a more gender responsive NDC. The following are key entry points into the national climate change planning and action:

• Analyse the national context for gender trends, sex-disaggregated data, and differing situations of women and men and the resulting identification of key sectors, strategies, and mechanisms for policy and action.
• Assess institutional gender equality frameworks and coordination mechanisms, including the integration of women’s leadership and inputs into national policy, as well as into approaches to inter-ministerial coordination and cooperation.
• Integrate gender equality into climate change policy and planning instruments and processes, including NAPs, LEDs, NAMAs, REDD+, and other UNFCCC processes, as well as other national policy and planning instruments.
• Engage in multi-stakeholder consultations with women and women’s organisations as well as a range of stakeholder groups at the local, subnational, and national levels.
• Support capacity development of different groups, including communities, women’s organisations, and government officials at the national and subnational levels.
• Engender the monitoring and evaluation processes and use of sex-disaggregated data and indicators.
• Gender-responsive climate finance mechanisms through national and global climate funds as well as innovative climate financing tools that target women’s grassroots enterprises and sustainable development outcomes.