Gender and Waste Nexus: Experiences from Bhutan, Mongolia and Nepal

PART 2

Country analyses

The Governments of Bhutan, Mongolia and Nepal all have constitutional and national legal commitments to gender inclusion and equality. All three have ratified the global Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and are committed to the SDGs. In addition, all three governments are signatories to the Paris Agreement, which is the central treaty within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and have developed (intended) Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for GHG emissions and mitigation targets. Each country has included the waste sector in its NDC, even though waste contributes little to their total climate change emissions.

Mongolia

21

Nepal

41

Bhutan

57

Gender and waste nexus

19