The CBD Women’s Caucus submitted views and information in preparation for the mid-term review of the Gender Plan of Action (2023–2030), drawing on contributions from member organisations across Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and globally.

The submission documents the Caucus’s concrete actions under three expected outcomes of the Gender Plan of Action:

• Expected Outcome 1: All people, in particular all women and girls, have equal opportunity and capacity to contribute to the three objectives of the Convention
• Expected Outcome 2: Biodiversity policy, planning and programming decisions address equally the perspectives, interests, needs and human rights of all people, in particular of all women and girls
• Expected Outcome 3: Enabling conditions are created to ensure gender-responsive implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

It also includes standalone submissions from nine member organisations and a history of the CBD Women’s Caucus.

The CBD Women’s Caucus submitted views on the strategic review of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA), calling for a decisive shift from a narrow protected-area model toward a rights-based, gender-responsive approach to area-based conservation — one that recognizes women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, local communities and environmental human rights defenders as rights-holders and decision-makers, not passive beneficiaries.

The submission responds to three questions:

• What aspects should be incorporated to improve alignment with the KM-GBF?
• How should the implementation approach be revised to better contribute to Target 3?
• Which PoWPA goals and activities should be prioritised by 2030?

In response to the Convention on Biological Diversity’s open call for commitments from actors other than national Governments towards the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF), the CBD Women’s Caucus submitted a series of three formal commitments grounded in gender equality, human rights and environmental justice.

These commitments reflect the collective work, advocacy and long-standing engagement of women and girls in all their diversity — including from Indigenous Peoples, local and Afro-descendant communities — in advancing gender-responsive biodiversity governance, implementation, monitoring and accountability under the Framework.

Through these submissions, the CBD Women’s Caucus seeks to contribute concrete actions and collaborative efforts that support the effective implementation of the KM-GBF and the CBD Gender Plan of Action (2023–2030), while strengthening the recognition of the essential role played by women-led organisations, feminist movements, grassroots actors and rights holders in achieving the goals and targets of the Framework.