A gender-responsive National Action Plan (NAP) is a national plan on chemials management that includes gender aspects. Applying gender-responsive approaches to the development process of a NAP requires attention to gender throughout the iterative cycle of planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. It also means consideration of gender issues in the crosscutting dimensions, including institutional arrangements, capacity development, financing and information sharing related to the NAP process, such as equal participation and influence in decision-making processes and equal access to financial resources and capacity-building for all genders.