Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change Project (PROEZA)

Category: MCF

Document Type: Gender Assessment

Summary of the Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change Project (PROEZA) in Eastern Paraguay, Documented 30 April 2018.

The Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change Project (PROEZA) in Eastern Paraguay aims to promote forest planting and reforestation, sequestering carbon and supporting local households dependent on family farming. The project addresses the high climate and social vulnerability of municipal districts in Eastern Paraguay, where deforestation and forest degradation exacerbate risks for agricultural livelihoods. Key obligations include providing Environmental Conditional Cash Transfers (E-CCT) to support community-based climate-sensitive agroforestry, serving as transitional support until new farming models become financially sustainable. The project will also make credit available for establishing productive forest plantations for bioenergy, timber, and silvo-pastoral production. Capacity building is included to support good governance and law enforcement related to project activities and environmental regulations. The project has an estimated lifespan of 30 years. While specific project start/end dates or compliance deadlines are not provided in this document, the legal framework governing rural women's rights in Paraguay, including Law 5446 on Public Policies for Rural Women (2015), the National Constitution (Articles 46, 47, 48), and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) ratified by Law 1215 (1986), are noted as relevant legal context. The project is funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and implemented by FAO.

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FP062: Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate
Change Project (PROEZA)
Paraguay | FAO | GCF/B.19/22/Rev.02
30 April 2018

Gender documents
for FP062
PROEZA Project
Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change
Annex K. Gender Analysis/Assessment and Gender Action Plan
Part I: Gender Analysis/Assessment
General information
Maternal mortality rate 95 per 1,000 (2014)
Infant mortality rate 8.5 per 1,000 (2014)
Educational status of girls 0 – 4 years: 77.2% (2012)
and boys Basic: 63% (53% of them are women) (2012)
High school: 33% graduated (more women than men) (2012)
Adult literacy rate 15 - 24 years: 98% (same rate men and women) (2012)
(disaggregated by sex) >15 year: 95% (very similar rate between women and men)
(2012)
Poverty rate Total: 28.86% (2016)
Rural: 39.72% (2016)
Labour force participation 40% women
rate (disaggregated by sex)
Employment rate 47.2% women
(disaggregated by sex) 50.9% men
Unemployment rate 8.3% (10.1% women and 6.6% men) (2016))
(disaggregated by sex)
Political participation rate Women as Party President: 9 from 27 parties (2014)
(disaggregated by sex) Decision level on parties: 35% women (2014)
Women as Senator candidate: 40.61% (election 2013)
Registered in parties: 47% women; 52% men (2015)
Women elected as parliamentarian: 17% (2013)
By law as candidates: at least 20% should be women
Life expectancy Women: 75,25 (2015)
(disaggregated by sex) Men: 70,91 (2015)
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What is the legal status of The new Law 5446 on Public Policies for Rural Women, enacted on
women? July 20th, 2015, seeks to reverse these and other gaps. Its general
objective is: "to promote and guarantee the economic, social,
political and cultural rights of rural women; fundamental for their
empowerment and development". This Law is framed in the legal
norms of Paraguay, which establish equality and non-discrimination
for women and men (Articles 46, 47 and 48); As well as the
responsibility of the State to remove obstacles to achieve equality
and prevent factors that maintain or promote them "(Article 46,
National Constitution of Paraguay). The governing body for
compliance with this Law is the Ministry of Women in coordination

Tags: Adaptation, Agriculture, Biomass, Carbon Sink, Climate Change, Climate Change Risks, Climate Finance, Co Benefits, Compliance, Deforestation, Development, Equity, Forests, Funding, Governance, Incentive, Institutions / Administrative Arrangements, Investment, Land Use, Livestock, Loan, Lulucf, Mitigation, Reforestation, Social Justice, Trees

Sector: Public

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