Course overview
Every country that signed the Paris Agreement submits a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) — its formal commitment to reducing emissions and adapting to climate change. The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) then translates those adaptation commitments into detailed, funded, sector-by-sector actions. Together, these two documents determine where climate resources go, which communities are prioritised, and how progress is measured. Most NDCs and NAPs acknowledge gender — but acknowledgement is not integration. A gender paragraph does not change the vulnerability data, the targets, the consultation process, or the monitoring framework. This module takes officials through the full process: auditing an existing national climate plan across five dimensions, rewriting GEDSI-blind targets using a four-question methodology, designing consultation processes that generate evidence rather than attendance records, and making the institutional case for GEDSI integration inside a finance or planning ministry. Grounded in the Vanuatu, Fiji, Rwanda and Marshall Islands cases.
Learning objectives
- Identify GEDSI entry points across the full NDC and NAP architecture — not just the adaptation section.
- Apply a five-dimension GEDSI audit to identify and prioritise gaps in an existing national climate plan.
- Rewrite a GEDSI-blind climate target to include disaggregated sub-targets, delivery mechanisms and measurable indicators.
- Design a GEDSI-responsive consultation process that generates evidence, not just participation records.
- Build the internal institutional case for GEDSI integration using effectiveness and finance access arguments.
- Evaluate a national climate plan revision against GEDSI integration criteria using the Vanuatu case as a benchmark.