A/HRC/41/26 • Enforce gender balance and diversity in the composition of national delegations to processes under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; • Support capacity-building for women from diverse backgrounds to maximize their voice, confidence and negotiation skills. • Empower women, as economic and climate actors, and workers and employers, to help shape the just transition to a low-carbon economy that benefits all, including through: • Promotion of equal rights and opportunities for women in agriculture; • Strengthening women’s land rights; • Ensuring women’s access to finance, technology and other inputs; • Improving working conditions. • Ensure that climate funds benefit countries and people most affected by climate change and systematically integrate women’s human rights and gender equality into governance structures, project approval, implementation processes, and public participation mechanisms, including through: • Ex ante and ex post gender and human rights impact assessments; • Regular reporting on implementation of gender policies, based on quantitative and qualitative indicators; gender-disaggregated data collected throughout the project cycle; and active engagement of local women in participatory project monitoring; • Developing guidance for gender-responsive stakeholder consultation and facilitating the participation of national and local women’s organizations, including through increased funding to support grass-roots women’s organizations working on local climate responses; • Mandatory gender-budgeting and gender financial audits. • Increase the effectiveness of climate action by funding and developing an improved understanding of the differentiated human rights impacts of climate change on women, including through: • Disaggregated data collection that pays particular attention to gender and its intersections with characteristics such as age, disability and ethnicity; • Development of gender-specific indicators; • Mapping the effects of climate change upon the poor, women, and girls; • Identifying priority areas of action to support women, and enhance access to benefits. • Take effective measures to address and prevent sexual and gender-based violence in the context of climate change, including through women’s meaningful and effective participation in the design and implementation of humanitarian, migration and disaster risk reduction plans and policies. • Engage with ministries of women’s affairs, or their equivalent, when designing climate change policies and actions. • Continue to emphasize the need to respect and fulfil women’s rights as a precondition for effective climate action at the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and other relevant forums, such as the upcoming Climate Action Summit being hosted in 2019 by the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the high-level political forum on sustainable development. 19