Technicians from the programme's various sectors participated in the training. Both internationally and regionally in Latin America and the Caribbean, the promotion of equality between men and women is highlighted.

Technicians from the programme's various sectors participated in the training. Both internationally and at the regional level in Latin America and the Caribbean, the promotion of gender equality in environmental and climate management stands out. Thus, efforts to further expand the training offer focused on gender anchoring and the effects of climate change and disasters are key: Women and girls not only represent a particularly vulnerable group in the face of climate change, but their skills and knowledge are also key when designing, implementing and monitoring climate actions.

EUROCLIMA recognises the importance and historical commitment of both the countries of the region and the European Union to achieve gender equality by aligning its initiatives in the region with the EU's Action Plan for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in External Action 2021-2025 (GAP III). The inclusion of gender equality as a cross-cutting issue is a shared task between the EUROCLIMA implementing agencies, the Secretariat and INTPA. In its gender strategy, the Programme highlights as one of its specific objectives the strengthening of its institutional capacity, including capacity building, exchange of lessons learned and best practices.

In the framework of International Women's Day, the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH, with the support of Francisca Miranda, Gender, Human Rights and Sustainable Development Expert, who initiated a two-session internal capacity building workshop - 8 and 9 March - on integrating the gender approach into EUROCLIMA actions. The workshop was addressed to the technical staff of the programme's implementing agencies and covered, based on a pre-workshop needs survey, the following topics;

• Introduction to the basic concepts of the gender approach;
• Identifying basic criteria for integrating gender into climate action policies, programmes and projects;
• To know the normative frameworks and identify the critical nodes of gender approach mainstreaming in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of Latin America and the Caribbean as part of the general context in which EUROCLIMA actions are implemented;
• To know the tools for gender mainstreaming in the framework of the project cycle with a focus on design and formulation, implementation and monitoring.

Promoting the exchange of lessons learned and best practices, there was a contribution from Agripina Jenkins, Coordinator of the UNDP NDC Support Programme, who shared the experience of including the gender perspective in the drafting of the update of the Costa Rican NDC, and Alejandro Ceballos, Technical Advisor of the ProMOVIS and EUROCLIMA projects of GIZ, who presented the experience in the development of the Action on the National Strategy for Active Mobility with a gender and differential approach (ENMA) in Colombia.. 

This important activity has been a milestone in the opening of a cycle of training that will develop the programme at various levels of implementation.

ABOUT EUROCLIMA

Euroclima is a programme funded by the European Union and co-financed by the German federal government through the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), as well as by the governments of France and Spain through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.

The Programme's mission is to reduce the impact of climate change and its effects in 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting mitigation, adaptation, resilience, climate investment and biodiversity. For this, it is implemented according to the "Spirit of Team Europe" under the synergistic work of eight agencies: the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), AFD Group: French Agency for Development Cooperation (AFD)/ Expertise France (EF), French Agency for International Development Cooperation (AFD): / Expertise France (EF), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the International and Ibero-America Foundation for Administration and Public Policy (FIIAPP), the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).