E/2011/27 E/CN.6/2011/12 Underscoring that gender equality perspectives and the effective participation of women are crucial for effective action on all aspects of climate change, and welcoming in this regard the priority given to such perspectives and participation in the Cancun Agreements adopted at the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the sixth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, held in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010,16 1. Calls upon Governments to integrate a gender perspective into their climate change policies and to strengthen mechanisms and provide adequate resources to ensure women’s full and equal participation in decision-making at all levels on environmental issues, in particular on strategies related to the impact of climate change on the lives of women and girls; Urges Governments to facilitate and increase the participation of 2. women, including indigenous women, as decision-makers, entrepreneurs, planners, evaluators, managers, scientists, technical advisers and beneficiaries in the design, development and implementation of all aspects of climate change policies; Urges Governments and all other relevant actors, in their efforts in 3. dealing with climate change, to promote women’s equal access to education, media and information, communications and technology and to encourage women’s equal participation in training and capacity-building for climate change adaptation and mitigation; Calls upon Governments, in their efforts in dealing with climate 4. change, to support and empower rural women, who are engaged in agricultural production and play a vital role in providing food security threatened by climate change, including land tenure and other property rights, by enhancing their access to and control of resources; Calls upon Governments, United Nations entities and other relevant 5. bodies involved in implementing climate change policies to provide training on the protection, rights and the particular needs of women and girls and to promote gender balance and gender sensitivity among their representatives and staff; Encourages Governments and international financial facilities and 6. institutions that provide climate- and environment-related assistance to ensure that a gender perspective is incorporated into the design, approval, execution and monitoring of projects; Invites social, economic, political and scientific institutions to take 7. into account the impact of environmental degradation and climate change on women, and, in this regard, to develop gender-sensitive database tools, databases and statistics, which should include reliable, comparable and relevant data, disaggregated by sex and age, as well as methodologies and policy analyses to better understand the links between gender and climate change; Encourages Governments to integrate a gender component into 8. their periodic reporting as States parties to multilateral environmental 11-28654 37