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Scientific and Technical Needs to Strengthen Gender-Responsive Implementation of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF)

c1652146 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:53:58 +0000

This policy brief presents preliminary findings from the CASCADE Gender Knowledge Exchange Project, developed in collaboration with the CBD Women’s Caucus, the University of Oxford, and University College London. It examines the scientific and technical needs required to strengthen gender-responsive implementation of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF), with a particular focus on Target 23 and the Gender Plan of Action (2023–2030). The analysis draws on a global survey of Gender and Biodiversity Focal Points and CBD National Focal Points across regions.

The findings highlight strong global commitment to gender-responsive biodiversity action, alongside persistent structural and institutional barriers. These include limited recognition and resourcing of gender focal points, fragmented coordination across institutions, gaps in gender data and monitoring systems, and restricted access to decision-making processes. While many countries have begun integrating gender considerations into NBSAPs, this often remains at a technical level and does not yet address underlying inequalities or ensure transformative outcomes.

This publication aims to inform ongoing CBD processes, including SBSTTA and the mid-term review of the Gender Plan of Action, by identifying priority areas for action. It calls for strengthened investment in gender-responsive data systems, capacity building, meaningful participation, and policy integration, while emphasising the need for sustained financial and institutional support to enable effective and equitable implementation of the KM-GBF.

Use this brief to strengthen gender-responsive biodiversity planning, support advocacy, and advance the implementation of Target 23 and the Gender Plan of Action.

Year: 2025
Type: Policy Brief
Authors: CASCADE, CBD Women’s Caucus, University of Oxford, and University College of London
Themes: Gender focal points, Gender Plan of Action, Gender perspective, NBSAPs implementation

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Policy Brief: Advancing gender justice in biodiversity data and policy

c1652146 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:00:35 +0000

This policy brief presents findings from a collaborative effort led by the CBD Women’s Caucus and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) to better understand how women-led and community-based organisations generate and use biodiversity data with a gender perspective. It highlights the critical role that women and girls in all their diversity, including from Indigenous Peoples, and from local and Afro-descendant communities, play in producing knowledge that informs conservation, sustainable use and rights-based approaches.

Drawing on diverse experiences and practices, the brief explores how gender-responsive biodiversity data is currently collected, managed and applied across contexts. It identifies key strengths, including the centrality of lived experience, traditional knowledge and community-rooted evidence, while also examining persistent barriers such as limited funding, weak data systems, restricted access to decision-making spaces and insufficient recognition of this work.

This report forms part of the broader initiative “Advancing gender justice in biodiversity data and policy”, led by the CBD Women’s Caucus in collaboration with IIED. The initiative aims to strengthen the capacities of women’s organisations to generate and use gender-responsive data, support the co-creation of evidence to influence biodiversity policy, and foster collective learning processes across regions.

Learn more about the initiative here.

Year: 2026
Type: Policy Brief
Authors: Shruti Ajit, Amelia Arreguín Prado, Fatima El-Aaraby (CBD Women’s Caucus)
and Karen Wong-Pérez, Francesca Booker, Cinzia Cimmino (IIED)
Themes: Data Value Chain, Biodiversity Monitoring, Gender-responsive data

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Findings Report: Advancing gender justice in biodiversity data and policy

c1652146 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:55:42 +0000

This findings report, developed by the CBD Women’s Caucus in partnership with IIED, presents an exploratory, network-based mapping of capacities, practices and needs related to gender-responsive biodiversity data among women-led and community-based organisations. It examines engagement across the biodiversity data value chain — from data collection and management to analysis and use — based on 70 survey responses from 33 countries.

The findings show that women-led and community-based organisations are already generating vital, community-rooted biodiversity data. Organisations are particularly active in data communication and use, while also contributing significantly to data collection and analysis. However, important gaps remain, particularly in data management, where lower levels of engagement may affect the long-term accessibility and usability of evidence. The report also highlights the central role of qualitative and narrative-based approaches — such as interviews, storytelling and focus groups — in capturing lived experiences and advancing gender-responsive knowledge systems.

Despite strong engagement and ethical intent, organisations face persistent structural barriers, including limited funding, access to technology and technical capacities. Critically, the report finds that the main constraint to policy impact is not the lack of data, but its limited recognition and uptake in decision-making processes. At the same time, the findings point to significant opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and for strengthening a whole-of-society approach to biodiversity monitoring and reporting, building on the existing contributions of women-led organisations to advance more gender-just biodiversity governance.

This report forms part of the broader initiative “Advancing gender justice in biodiversity data and policy”, led by the CBD Women’s Caucus in collaboration with IIED. The initiative aims to strengthen the capacities of women’s organisations to generate and use gender-responsive data, support the co-creation of evidence to influence biodiversity policy, and foster collective learning processes across regions.

Learn more about the initiative here.

Year: 2026
Type: Report
Authors: Shruti Ajit, Amelia Arreguín-Prado, Fatima El-Aaraby (CBD Women’s Caucus)
and Karen Wong-Pérez, Francesca Booker, Cinzia Cimmino (IIED)
Themes: Data Value Chain, Biodiversity Monitoring, Gender-responsive data

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Call for expressions of interest: peer learning series on gender and biodiversity data

c1652146 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:07:05 +0000

The CBD Women’s Caucus, in collaboration with IIED, is working to enable women’s organisations to generate and use gender-responsive biodiveristy data.

Following a recent report that focused on recognising women-led biodiversity data as vital to advance biodiversity conservation, we are launching a new series centred around peer learning.

We invite women-led organisations, community-based organisations, local civil society actors and individual experts working at the intersection of gender and biodiversity to express their interest in participating in a peer-to-peer learning on gender and biodiversity data

This series will bring together practitioners to share experiences, build practical skills, and strengthen the use of gender-responsive biodiversity data.

The five sessions will take place between May and July 2026:

Induction – 7 May 2026, 14:00-15:00 UTC (Mandatory)
Data collection – 21 May 2026, 14:00-15:30 UTC
Data analysis & management – 4 June 2026, 14:00-15:30 UTC
Data use & communication – 18 June 2026, 14:00-15:30 UTC
Closing – 2 July 2026, 14:00-15:00 UTC (Mandatory)

The space is for individuals and organisations that are currently working on biodiversity and gender issues, have experience or interest in generating or using biodiversity data, and are looking to strengthen their capacities across different stages of the data cycle.

Selected participants will be expected to engage in:

One orientation session, which is mandatory, for context setting and engagement
Three thematic sessions: data collection, data management and analysis, and data use and communication
One closing reflection session, which is mandatory, to outline future strategies
Inter-session activities, including sharing experiences and contributing to learning materials

A key outcome of this process will be the development of a Handbook on Methodologies and Tools for Gender and Biodiversity Data. Participants who actively contribute to this process will be acknowledged as co-authors of the Handbook.

How to apply

Interested individuals and organisations are invited to express their interest by completing the registration form below.

Closing date: 15th April 2026

Application form

Selected participants will be informed with the relevant information by the end of April.

For any questions, please contact: genderandbiodiversitydata@cbdwomenscaucus.org

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Making Space for Women’s Leadership in Biodiversity Data and Evidence

c1652146 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:08:04 +0000

On 5 March, ahead of 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70), the CBD Women’s Caucus, in collaboration with International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), convened a virtual launch of its «Findings Report: Advancing Gender Justice in Biodiversity Data and Policy». The session brought together voices from across regions and institutions to reflect on a shared challenge: how to ensure that biodiversity monitoring is not only technically robust, but also rights-based, inclusive, and grounded in the lived realities of women.

About the event

The session opened with Ms Shruti Ajit, Project Officer at the CBD Women’s Caucus, who presented the key findings from the assessment. Her remarks set the tone by highlighting a critical disconnect, while women-led, community-based organisations are already generating rich and nuanced biodiversity data, this knowledge continues to remain under-recognised in formal policy and monitoring systems.

Drawing from both the report and complementary insights from expert engagements, the presentation underscored a central paradox. Across countries, women-led and community-based monitoring systems are producing valuable data on biodiversity trends, traditional knowledge, and rights. Yet, governments,often constrained by incomplete datasets,are not fully leveraging these contributions. This represents a missed opportunity to adopt a truly whole-of-society approach to monitoring the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).

The discussion was further enriched through a 20-minute segment featuring expert reflections from Ms Ciere Booth (Programme Officer, Policy Innovation Area, UNEP-WCMC), Mr Venge Nyirongo (Intergovernmental Specialist- Climate Change, Sustainable Development and the Rio Conventions, UN Women), Ms Charlotte (Lotty) Clare (Advocacy and Research Officer, Karen Environmental and Social Action Network), and Ms Marina López Sincal (Gender and Biodiversity Focal Point, Government of Guatemala). Together, they brought institutional, community, and policy perspectives into conversation,grounding the report’s findings in practice.

"It is not only about what we measure, but also how we measure it"

Building on the assessment, Ms Ciere Booth emphasised that rights-based monitoring is not only about what we measure, but also how we measure it. It requires examining whose knowledge is valued, who participates in monitoring processes, and what systems are in place to enable meaningful inclusion. She pointed to the potential of community-based monitoring systems to complement national datasets, while also noting that institutional recognition remains a key barrier.

Mr Venge Nyirongo reinforced this by highlighting that the challenge is not a lack of evidence, but a lack of recognition. Community organisations are actively engaged in data collection, analysis, use, and communication, yet gaps in data management create bottlenecks that limit long-term usability and policy uptake. He further underscored the importance of strengthening the gender-responsive data value chain,recognising that data systems are shaped by power, participation, and social norms.

Grounded insights from Ms Charlotte Clare illustrated how these dynamics play out on the ground. Through community-led research initiatives, Indigenous Karen communities are generating critical biodiversity knowledge,ranging from ethnobotanical studies to wildlife monitoring and ecosystem restoration. Women play a central role in these processes, blending traditional knowledge with scientific approaches, while also strengthening leadership and decision-making within their communities. At the same time, challenges related to funding, human resources, and data organisation continue to limit the scale and sustainability of these efforts.

From a government perspective, Ms Marina López Sincal reflected on ongoing efforts in Guatemala to institutionalise gender-responsive approaches within biodiversity governance. The establishment of a dedicated Gender Unit and the development of strategies to promote women’s participation signal important progress. She also highlighted the role of disaggregated data in informing inclusive policies, and the need for stronger governance frameworks to integrate community-generated data into national systems.

Across these interventions, a consistent message emerged: the issue is not the absence of data, but the systems that fail to recognise, integrate and resource it

The session concluded with reflections from Ms Karen Wong Pérez, Senior Researcher at IIED, who outlined key next steps.The next phase will focus on a peer-to-peer learning journey, directly responding to the needs identified in the assessment. This will bring together women’s organisations to exchange experiences, share methods, and strengthen collaborative learning. Planned between April and June, the formative process will engage women working at national and regional levels, particularly those working with Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant groups, through targeted modules. These efforts will culminate in the co-creation of a Gender and Biodiversity Data Methods Handbook, ensuring that the evidence generated actively informs policy and practice.

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What if the most powerful environmental data doesn’t come from satellites but from the hands of Indigenous women defending their land?

c1652146 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:55:35 +0000

By: Immaculata Casimero. Co-founder and leader of the Wapichan Women’s Movement

On March 21st, voices from across the globe gathered in Conference Room E at the UN Headquarters to reflect on a promise made decades ago—in Beijing and Rio—to achieve gender equality and environmental justice. The side event, “Fulfilling the true vision of Beijing (and Rio): a whole-of-society approach to gender and environment data,” brought together member states, UN agencies, and civil society actors to challenge conventional data systems and uplift those who are often excluded. Among them was Immaculata Casimero, a Wapichan woman from Guyana, whose message was clear: The data we need already exists in the hands of grassroots women—it’s time we start listening.

As co-founder of the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement (WWWM) and Gender Affairs Coordinator of the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC), Immaculata Casimero, CBD Women’s Caucus member, spoke not only as an advocate but as a representative of 21 Indigenous communities that have long been monitoring their lands. “The SRDC is the legally recognized representative body of 21 villages in the South Rupununi,” she said, “focusing on indigenous governance, land rights advocacy, and environmental conservation.” With deep roots in their territory and traditions, the Wapichan people aren’t just observers of change—they are frontline data collectors, scientists, and protectors.

Fulfilling the True Vision of Beijing (and Rio): A Whole-of-Society Approach to Gender and Environment Data” – Side event at the United Nations Headquarters.
Photo credit: Moussa Fara DIOP / Ghali Consulting

Since 2013, Wapichan-led monitors have tracked deforestation, illegal mining, and mercury contamination in their rivers—especially around sacred sites like Marudi Mountain. “The monitoring and mapping program is more than data collection—it is a part of our Indigenous justice system, rooted in customary law and the right to self-determined governance over our lands.” Their work merges traditional knowledge with legal and scientific training, producing data that tells a far more intimate and urgent story than government statistics alone. In 2018, the SRDC found mercury levels in women’s bodies that were “higher-than-global-average,” a reality that threatens reproductive health, food systems, and survival.

“Women were disproportionately affected, with higher-than-global-average mercury levels in their bodies. Mercury exposure affects women’s reproductive health, leading to birth defects and long-term health issues.”

-Ms.Immaculata Casimero is the co-founder and leader of the Wapichan Women's Movement, the Gender Affairs Coordinator at the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC), and a member of the CBD Women’s Caucus.

However, the SRDC’s data and the people behind it remain unrecognized by their own government. “Instead of collaborating with us, the government has sidelined our work,” Immaculata stated, outlining how parallel programs erase Indigenous knowledge and undermine grassroots accountability. Despite these systemic barriers, the Wapichan communities are witnessing a quiet revolution: a 23% increase in women’s leadership over the past three years. Women are speaking up, not just as caregivers but as decision-makers advocating for land rights, clean water, and justice.

Wapichan Women’s Group at the Women’s Conference – February 14, 2025. Photo credit: South Rupununi District Council (SRDC)

Immaculata’s call echoed the very heart of the event’s message: we need a whole-of-society approach that includes—not sidelines—community-driven data. “If we integrate local, community-led data into national and global decision-making, we get a more accurate picture of environmental challenges and solutions,” she urged. Without gender-disaggregated data, the unique burdens faced by women—particularly Indigenous women—remain invisible. Without policy recognition of their monitoring programs, the risks to health, land, and life persist.

“When governments recognize, fund, and use data from Indigenous and grassroots women, we create stronger, fairer policies that protect both people and the planet.”

-Ms. Immaculata Casimero is the co-founder and leader of the Wapichan Women's Movement, the Gender Affairs Coordinator at the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC), and a member of the CBD Women’s Caucus.

From the rivers of the South Rupununi to the polished halls of the United Nations, Immaculata reminded the world: Indigenous women are not victims of the climate crisis—they are researchers, defenders, and leaders. Their data, stories, and strength deserve not just to be heard but to shape the policies meant to protect us all.

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position or opinions of the CBD Women’s Caucus.

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