The Australia Awards South Asia & Mongolia program is seeking technical proposals from Registered Training Organisations in Australia, or Australian tertiary institutions as defined in the Higher Education Support Act, 2003 Table A, B and C, to design and deliver a Short Course on Gender-Responsive Interventions for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation for Policy Makers (Regional).
Australia Awards – South Asia & Mongolia (the Program) is seeking a cost-effective training program for up to 24 participants. This Short Course will be delivered via blended delivery over six months, commencing in November 2025 and completing no later than March 2026.
The proposed Short Course aims to deliver the following learning outcomes that support participants to be able to:
Critically assess the gendered impacts of climate change across sectors to evaluate how climate change differentially affects women, men, and marginalised groups in sectors such as agriculture, water, energy, and disaster risk reduction, using intersectional and context-specific analysis.
Understand the role of the private and finance sectors in gender responsive climate adaptation and mitigation.
Analyse and critique national climate policies and financing mechanisms for gender responsiveness by assessing national climate policies both across South Asia and Mongolia and more broadly (e.g. NDCs, adaptation plans) and climate finance instruments (e.g. Green Climate Fund [GFC], Adaptation Fund) for alignment with gender equality principles and identify key gaps or opportunities.
Design gender-responsive interventions for climate adaptation and mitigation, applying tools (e.g. gender analysis matrices, stakeholder mapping) to develop or revise climate-related programs or projects with concrete gender equality outcomes.
Develop advocacy strategies to promote inclusive climate governance by formulating targeted strategies to strengthen women’s and marginalised groups’ participation in climate decision-making processes at local, national, or regional levels.
Use digital and technology-enabled tools and data systems for modern policy making.
This will support the implementation of broader objectives across the region, including:
National policies: for example India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change; Bangladesh’s National Adaptation Plan 2023-2050; Pakistan’s Climate Change Action Plan; and Nepal’s Climate Change Policy 2019, which increasingly highlight the need for inclusive resilience.
Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement that recognise gender as a cross-cutting issue.
Global donor priorities, including:
Sustainable Development Goal 5 (Gender Equality) and Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action);
Green Climate Fund and Adaptation Fund mandates for gender mainstreaming; and
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Gender Action Plan.
Commitments under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and UN Women’s regional gender-climate resilience agendas.
The Short Course’s emphasis will be on providing participants with practical implementation strategies including working with sub-national institutions and grassroots stakeholders.
