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The Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) has channeled a raft of proposals to be included in Kenya’s position paper ahead of Azerbaijan’s COP29.
This is after a consultative pre-cop meeting with the youth, women, marginalized, and local communities at the YWCA headquarters.
The participants discussed the differentiated impacts of climate change among the youth, children, women, people with disability, local communities, and the Indigenous people; the uniqueness of COP 29 in line with the CMA decision on concluding setting the New Collective Quantified Goal in 2024 and the role this might play enhancing climate resilience among the constituency.
They also discussed the CMA’s decision to review the gender action plan and the implication this would potentially have on women’s representation, capacity strengthening, knowledge sharing, and communication, gender-responsive implementation of means of implementation, coherence and monitoring and reporting; and finally how the CMA decision on setting indicators on adaptation targets would influence this constituency and agreed to submit the following for consideration by the government and parties.
In the position paper the women, youths, marginalized communities, and Indigenous people submitted that the Kenyan government and other parties’ publication of progress should be made on achieving gender and social inclusion indicators, especially around the seven thematic and four-dimensional targets in line with decision 2/CMA.5 and potential means of implementation that would be needed for the same.
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They called on the government to propose to other parties to consider the linkage between the ongoing process of setting indicators under the UAE framework for global climate resilience and the adaptation committee and the new collective quantified goal on finance and its respective sub-goal on adaptation.
“Considering the lived experience of the structurally marginalized groups, financial gaps as on the adaptation gap report, and limits to adaptation as on the AR6 report, we now submit for consideration by the Kenyan government to make adaptation a priority and consider having it in the national position as such.” They said in the position paper submitted to the government.
“We submit for consideration by parties that the New Collective Quantified Goal on Finance reflects means (finance) for actioning ACE especially accessible to the structurally marginalized constituencies for enhanced capacities and awareness in line with article 12.” They added.
Further, YWCA on behalf of the youth, marginalized communities, and Indigenous people submitted that the Kenyan government should consider in its position a financial lens to reviewing the GAP with intentions of enhancing women and the social and structurally marginalized representation, capacity strengthening, and knowledge sharing.
Considering the NDR report that estimates climate finance needs for developing countries between 5.8 to 5.9 trillion dollars by 2030, the association suggested a higher amount per year.
They called on the government and the other parties to consider setting sub-goals for mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage.