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APPENDIX VIII: Gender Mainstreaming Plan 202. Every effort will be made by the GoE, CI, and Island Conservation to further gender equality in the Galapagos archipelago by building on an existing platform of success. The aim of the GMP is to identify needs and opportunities to mitigate potentially adverse effects of the project on men and women, as well as promote gender equality as an aspect of the project. The GoE, EA, and IA have procurement procedures that explicitly recognize the promotion of gender equality as a standard business practice. As a result, gender equality will be taken into consideration through their procurement programs when sourcing staff, equipment, and consultants with GEF trust funds and/or co-financing. The following is a list of examples of project elements that are particularly gender-sensitive and thus focal areas for the GMP. These issues are included as project indicators (see Appendix 1, Project Results Framework). Component 1: Furthering development of a state-of-the-art biosecurity system Work under Component 1 will build on past and ongoing efforts by ABG to implement and strengthen biosecurity through interception and control of invasive alien species and diseases. The benefits to biodiversity of adding new pest detection equipment, training inspectors to use the new equipment effectively, and implementing new inter-island biosecurity protocols will be substantial over the long- term and will accrue to the whole of the archipelago, as well as to continental Ecuador and Ecuador’s trading partners. Invasive alien species intercepted as a result of enhanced detection capacities will be eliminated from the pathway by which they were being mobilized, and their establishment in natural ecosystems will be prevented. Issues related to gender mainstreaming under Component 1 include the following: • Training courses are gender sensitive in terms of participation, instructional design, and use of language; • In particular, training programmes ensure that detection devices can be effectively operated by both women and men. Component 2: Solidifying the social pathway for the protection and recovery of Floreana Island ecosystems A conflict transformation105 process, led by Island Conservation, has been underway on Floreana Island for the last six years, through which the concerns of the local community and partners have been actively solicited and understood. Additional rounds of consultation and feedback solicitation are required to deepen the community and partnership’s understanding of the proposed actions and responsibilities, and to refine details of risk management plans. Risk management and operational plans must be complementary and synergistic, as such changes in details of one plan may affect another; this requires all plans to be advanced simultaneously and considered within the context of each other. Once consultations and this process is complete, plans will be submitted to the PSC for approval. Other plans, including pesticide monitoring, wildlife monitoring, non-target species mitigation, and biosecurity are being developed simultaneously with co-financing to manage other risks and will also be approved by 105 Term attributed to John Paul Lederach's longer The Little Book of Conflict Transformation, 2003 129 the PSC but are not a GEF deliverable. As a last step, all plans will be included within an ESIA, the development of which will include additional stakeholder engagement and considerations for gender mainstreaming. Issues related to gender mainstreaming under Component 2 include the following: • Community consultative processes will be designed to facilitate equal participation, mutual respect, and collective decision making by women and men; • The potential project impacts (positive and negative) on both men and women will be taken into consideration during the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA). Component 3: Advancing the recovery of island ecosystems following invasive species eradication through the establishment of keystone species (i.e. giant tortoises) Although invasive rodents and feral cats have not yet been removed from Floreana Island, invasive vertebrates have been removed from Santa Fe (goats) and other Galapagos islands. These islands are now candidates for the recovery of endangered species and associated ecological processes. As part of the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative, Española tortoises, as the closest genetic relative and of the same saddleback morphology, will be used as ecological analogs for the extinct Santa Fe tortoise to re- initiate ecosystem processes on Santa Fe Island. Since 2015, a total of 396 Española (Chelonoidis hoodensis) tortoises have been released on Santa Fe. Additional efforts will be required in coming years to build capacity and restore the island with approximately 4,000 tortoises, the abundance predicted by habitat suitability models to have been present originally. Issues related to gender mainstreaming under Component 3 include the following: • Women’s participation in field monitoring expeditions, and; • Women’s participation in captive rearing of tortoises Project-wide issues • Presentations on lessons learned made to decision makers and resource managers within Ecuador need to reach both women and men in leadership positions; and • All publications resulting from the project need to use gender-sensitive language and are made equally accessible to men and women. Indicators Table 1 below presents gender-specific indicators—and associated targets—to be tracked by the project. Table 1: Indicators related to gender Indicators Metrics Methodo- Baseline Target Location Frequency Responsible Indicative logy Parties Resources Gender Number of men Project NA Women PMU Once (Y3, PMU Approximately 5- Indicator and women reporting account for at Q2) 10% of the project 1 that least 30% of team’s time will participated in persons be allocated to project participating in monitoring of 130 Indicators Metrics Methodo- Baseline Target Location Frequency Responsible Indicative logy Parties Resources activities (e.g. project indicators. No meetings, meetings, additional workshops, workshops or dedicated budget consultations) consultations is allocated Gender Number of men Project NA Women PMU Once (Y3, PMU Approximately 5- Indicator and women reporting account for at Q2) 10% of the project 2 that received least 30% of team’s time will benefits (e.g. persons trained be allocated to employment, and/or monitoring of income receiving other indicators. No generating benefits additional activities, dedicated budget training, access is allocated to natural resources, land tenure or resource rights, equipment, leadership roles) from the project Gender Number of Project NA All strategies, PMU Once (Y3, PMU Approximately 5- Indicator strategies, reporting plans and Q2) 10% of the project 3 plans (e.g. policies team’s time will management developed with be allocated to plans and land the support of monitoring of use plans) and the project will indicators. No policies derived include gender additional from the considerations dedicated budget project that is allocated include gender considerations. 131 .