The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean: guide on gender mainstreaming provides background information and discusses various courses of action and types of measures for integrating the gender perspective into the implementation of the Agreement at the local, national and regional levels. Its objective is to help enable women, in all their diversity, to fully exercise their rights to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters and their rights in working to protect the environment in the region.

This guide has been prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at the request of the Conference of the Parties to the Escazú Agreement and with the assistance of experts in international and environmental law and in gender equality. A participatory methodology was used for its preparation that involved three different consultative stages during which input was received from States Parties, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, women’s organizations, academic institutions and the general public.