A/HRC/41/26 56. UN-Women provides substantive support to the gender equality group of friends, an informal group of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and to the For All Coalition (mentioned in para. 50 above). UN-Women works to raise visibility of gender issues at the highest levels of political discussion and provides financial support to State party delegates, non-governmental organizations, indigenous and women’s groups and youth organizations for their participation in intergovernmental meetings. The UN-Women programmatic work on climate change includes three flagship programme initiatives, namely Women’s Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Energy, 105 Women’s Empowerment through Climate-Smart Agriculture106 and Addressing the Gender Inequality of Risk in a Changing Climate. 107 Through these and other programmes, UN-Women promotes gender-responsive climate action at the international, regional, national and local levels.108 57. The Gender Action Plan under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change constitutes a good practice. A recent call for submissions on the Gender Action Plan yielded numerous inputs that highlight additional good practices. 109 In 2014, the World Meteorological Organization convened a Conference on the Gender Dimensions of Weather and Climate Services that raised awareness of gendered impacts of weather and climate, and highlighted good practices for the empowerment of women and men through the provision and use of gender-sensitive weather and climate information. The conference report laid out actions and mechanisms for making weather and climate services more gender-sensitive so that women and men could make equally informed decisions in the areas of agriculture and food security, disaster risk reduction, water resources management and public health.110 58. The International Union for Conservation of Nature publication Roots for the Future highlights the policy landscape with respect to gender and climate change at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and identifies good practices in gender-responsive programming. 111 The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and partners engaged with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the Committee’s reviews of Maldives and Tuvalu to highlight exclusion of women from formal decision-making on climate change and discrimination with respect to land rights. 112 In both cases, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women emphasized the importance of ensuring women’s rights to participation in climate change policy, in disaster management and in natural resource governance. 113 This type of engagement with human rights mechanisms can trigger recommendations and government action, and also supported the elaboration of the Committee’s general recommendation No. 37. 59. Partnerships can play a critical role in shaping gender-responsive climate policies. The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women highlighted its work with the University of Health Sciences to support the integration of gender in the National Climate Change Health Adaptation Strategy of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.114 Ultimately, the strategy called for improved health-care services for women during and after climate change-related disasters, for awareness-raising regarding the health impacts of climate 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 See www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2015/ fpi%20briefenergy%20globalusv3.pdf?la=en&vs=5222. See www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2015/ fpi%20briefagriculture%20localusweb.pdf?la=en&vs=3547. See www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2016/ fpi%20brief-gir_v2.pdf?la=en&vs=2816. Input from UN-Women. See, for example, inputs from the European Union and UN-Women with respect to decision 3/CP.23 (establishment of a gender action plan, activity E.1) on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change submissions portal. Input from the World Meteorological Organization. See http://genderandenvironment.org/roots-for-the-future/. Input from the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. See CEDAW/C/MDV/CO/4-5 and CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/3-4. Input from the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women. 17