Summary The Gender, Climate Change, and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN) brought partners
together in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to reflect on progress, exchange lessons on capacity strengthening
and policy engagement, identify priorities for the remaining period of the project, and engage with stake
holders in Ethiopia. The three-day workshop combined reflection, peer learning, forward planning, and
stakeholder consultation. Several key takeaways emerged from the workshop :

 Partners have made substantial progress in building awareness of the gender-climate-nutrition nexus,
developing tools and training materials, convening multisectoral actors, and creating entry points into
policy and planning processes. The next challenge is moving from awareness of the importance of
integrating gender, climate change, and nutrition goals in policy processes to routine application and
institutionalization.

 Capacity strengthening on integrating gender, climate change, and nutrition needs to extend beyond
training individuals. Participants emphasized leadership buy-in, institutional mandates, coordination
mechanisms, practical tools, sustained financing, follow-up, and opportunities to apply learning in real
policy and planning processes.

 Country approaches differ, but partners gained insights from cross-country experiences and valued
the opportunity for cross-country learning. Existing manuals, frameworks, metrics, policy briefs, and
facilitation approaches could be consolidated and adapted rather than creating entirely new products
in each setting.

 Policy engagement is most effective when it is sustained, demand-driven, linked to active policy win
dows, and grounded in relationships with both technical staff and decisionmakers. Partners also high
lighted the importance of co-creating evidence and translating it into practical guidance to facilitate
GCAN integration.

 Looking ahead, partners want to strengthen monitoring of capacity and institutional change, deepen
peer learning, embed GCAN approaches in existing institutions and platforms, and mobilize re
sources and partnerships that can sustain the work beyond the current project period.