This is a submission by the CBD Women’s Caucus, together comprising a diverse group of women’s
groups, Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network (IWBN) including RMIB-LAC its regional caucus
from Latin America and the Caribbean, Indigenous Peoples’ organisations, community-based
organisations, NGOs, researchers, and networks working on issues related to gender and biodiversity
conservation.

This submission includes the following sections:

• Engaging women and gender mainstreaming in the CBD
• Institutionalising an engagement mechanism for rights holders in the preparatory process
• Building on the steps taken in the previous preparatory process for the Strategic Plan for
• Biodiversity 2011-2020
• Improving meaningful consideration of gender and biodiversity
• Process to update the 2015-2020 Gender Plan of Action
• Coherence with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals