Enhanced climate resilience in the Trois-Rivières region of Haiti through Integrated Flood Management

Category: MCF

Document Type: Gender Assessment

Summary of Haiti's FP208 Project for Enhanced Climate Resilience and Flood Management in the Trois-Rivières Region, as of July 13, 2023

Haiti faces high vulnerability to climate hazards, particularly flooding from tropical storms and hurricanes, leading to significant economic damage and loss of life and livelihoods. This vulnerability disproportionately affects the 59 per cent of Haitians living below the national poverty line. Targeting the Trois-Rivières (TR) region, the project, formally known as FP208: Enhanced climate resilience in the Trois-Rivières region of Haiti through Integrated Flood Management, aims to enhance community resilience by promoting a shift towards an integrated, climate-smart approach to land and water resources management. Key interventions include promoting ecosystem-based flood management solutions, implementing sustainable agricultural practices, and strengthening water governance frameworks. The project is expected to reduce the number of households affected by extreme flood events in the TR region by over 50 per cent. It also seeks to scale up a transformative change in how decision-makers and communities interact with and respect natural resources within the TR watershed. The project is being proposed as a full-scale project to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in close coordination with the Government of Haiti. This document, dated July 13, 2023, serves as Annex VIII, the Gender Assessment and Action Plan, supporting the main Funding Proposal (FP208). While the document outlines the project's purpose and scope, it does not specify project deadlines, compliance dates, or specific regulatory statutes the project must adhere to beyond the general legal and policy frameworks in Haiti concerning women, gender equality, and climate change governance.

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Guinea Bissau Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) B. 34
FP208: Enhanced climate resilience in the Trois-Rivières region of Haiti
thro u gh Integrated Flood Management
Haiti | UNDP | B. 36/02/Add.03
July 1 3, 2023
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Gender documentation for FP208
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Annex VIII – Gender Assessment and Action Plan
Enhanced climate resilience in the Trois-
Rivières region of Haiti through Integrated
Flood Management
Annex VIII – Gender Assessment and Action Plan
Table of Contents
1. Objective of the Gender Assessment and Action Plan ............................................................. 2
2. Overview of the Proposed Project ......................................................................................... 2
3. Overview of Gender Issues in Haiti......................................................................................... 4
4. Facets of gender inequality in Haiti relevant for the Project design: ......................................... 5
5. Gender-based Violence (GBV) and Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH) ........... 18
6. Legal, Policy and Administrative Frameworks for Protecting Women and Gender Equality ...... 20
The Ministry of Women and Women's Rights (MCFDF) ................................................................. 21
The Office for the Fight against Violence Against Women ............................................................. 21
Criminal Code ............................................................................................................................. 21
Climate change governance and gender in Haiti ........................................................................... 22
7. Project-specific design consideration resulting from the Gender Assessment ......................... 23
8. Recommendations from Haiti’s existing on Climate Resilience and Gender Projects and
Programmes............................................................................................................................... 24
Appendix 1: Glossary and List of Stakeholders ............................................................................ 46
Appendix 2: List of stakeholders consulted ................................................................................. 48
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Annex VIII – Gender Assessment and Action Plan
1. Objective of the Gender Assessment and Action Plan
This Gender Assessment and Action Plan (GAAP) – is a supporting document for the design of the
following proposed Green Climate Fund (GCF) project: Enhanced climate resilience in the Trois-Rivières
region of Haiti through integrated flood management. It is the Annex 8 of the Funding Proposal, which
is being proposed as a full-scale project by the Accredited Entity (AE) – United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) and has been developed in close coordination with the Government of Haiti.
The main objective of this Gender Assessment is to screen the gender context which will inform where
the GCF project will be implemented, and to subsequently strengthen the gender-responsive actions
through the project, to ensure that the benefits of the project accrue equitably to women, men, boys
and girls in the targeted projects sites selected with country partners and stakeholders in Haiti.
In particular, this gender assessment aims to provide an analysis of gender equality and women
empowerment in Haiti, with a specific focus on the gender differentiated impacts of climate change
and how the findings can be used to drive the design of an adaptation intervention, that is gender-
responsive and (where possible) gender-transformative. The objectives of the GAAP are as follows:
• To align the proposed project design with Haiti's national priorities on gender as well as GCF’s
Gender Policy and Action Plan1 and UNDP’s Gender Equality Strategy 2022 - 20252

Tags: Adaptation, Adaptation Planning, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change Risks, Climate Finance, Development, Disaster Risk Management, Drr, Environmental Degradation, Equity, Food Security, Funding, Gender, Governance, Institutions / Administrative Arrangements, Investment, Land Use, Natural Resources, Rivers, Soil Erosion, Water, Water Management

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