The question-and-answer session surfaced additional priorities from the floor. A representative from the disability rights community reminded panelists that categories such as «women» and «youth» are not homogeneous, calling for disability inclusion — currently referenced but largely invisible in implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework — to become the standard rather than an afterthought.

A journalist from Abos African News Agency asked the panel to identify the Caucus’s single most important priority; speakers pointed to accelerating the means of implementation alongside implementation itself, so that finance, capacity, and technical support keep pace with commitments. Representatives of grassroots and community-based organizations, including from Mombasa, Kenya, described a persistent gap between gender commitments on paper and enforcement at the national and local level. In response, speakers pointed to the value of collective advocacy — including connecting national women’s networks, such as women in conservation in Kenya, to the global Caucus — and to the two-way flow of knowledge between local realities and global policy processes as central to closing that gap.

A founder of a freshwater-focused non-governmental organization asked what mechanisms exist to track the benefits women bring to conservation work. Speakers pointed to ongoing Caucus initiatives to build a stronger evidence base, including the forthcoming Women Biodiversity Outlook and work tracking the gender-responsiveness of national biodiversity policies, alongside the Gender Plan of Action as a guiding framework for Parties and stakeholders.