Following the adoption of Decision 16/31 on the monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF), the Conference of the Parties invited Parties, the CBD Women’s Caucus, and other relevant stakeholders to submit views on the inclusion of additional headline, component, and complementary indicators for the KM-GBF Monitoring Framework.

In response, this submission presents the CBD Women’s Caucus’ recommendations to strengthen the monitoring framework through more gender-responsive and rights-based indicators. It highlights priorities to improve the measurement of women’s participation and leadership, land and resource rights, environmental human rights defenders, access to finance, and gender-responsive biodiversity governance, while promoting the integration of Indigenous and local knowledge, participatory monitoring, and disaggregated data to support equitable implementation of the KM-GBF.