Women's participation

Un mar de oportunidades

Esta guía resume la investigación sobre la intersección entre el género y la pesca de captura, explorando las formas en que la pesca ofrece importantes puntos de entrada para mejorar la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento económico de las mujeres, al tiempo que contribuye a intervenciones más eficaces y resultados más sostenibles.

Author(s)
Siles Calvo, Jackeline
Prebble, Maria
Wen, Jamie
Hart, Corinne
Schuttenberg, Heidi

The role of women in the Shouf Biosphere Reserve, Lebanon

This report explores the role of gender in the division of labour and cultural practices in Lebanon’s Shouf region. The document includes a review of women’s economic and household contributions, obstacles women face in accessing economic opportunities, and recommendations for strengthening women’s roles in the local economy.

Author(s)
Succar Slaiby, Caroline

Advancing gender in the environment

This guide provides an overview of the unique roles and contributions women make in the wild-caught fisheries sector.

Author(s)
Siles Calvo, Jackeline
Prebble, Maria
Wen, Jamie
Hart, Corinne
Schuttenberg, Heidi

Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters

Issues of women’s participation and gender equality in the governance of shared waters have received insufficient attention to date in both the research and practice literature, yet action is happening on the ground. Women play key roles in generating change in the way water is used, shared, and allocated, from local to transnational levels and in spite of legal, regulatory and institutional frameworks that provide little space for their participation in planning and decisionmaking.

Author(s)
Fauconnier, Isabelle
Jenniskens, Annemiek
Perry, Page

Women’s participation and gender considerations in country representation, planning and reporting to the BRS Conventions

The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions cooperate to protect human health and the environment from the negative effects of hazardous pollutants. This Environment and Gender Information (EGI) platform analysis explores how women are represented as delegates to the Conferences of the Parties (COPs), members and observers of Conventions’ Subsidiary Bodies, and national focal points.

Author(s)
Gilligan, M.
Sabater, L.

Mainstreaming gender into Ghana's REDD+ process

This publication highlights the processes, approaches and tools, successes and challenges of Ghana’s journey towards mainstreaming of gender considerations into the national REDD+ process. It provides an avenue for sharing the Ghanaian experience with stakeholders at the local, national and international levels. It also provides information for advocacy on gender issues, and highlights the importance of integrating gender issues and women’s participation into policy and decision making at both local, regional and national levels.

Assuming women's representation in carbon forestry projects

The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making. This Working Paper series will publish the RFGI case studies as well as other comparative studies of decentralized natural resources governance in Africa and elsewhere that focus on the intersection between local democracy and natural resource management schemes.

Author(s)
Ruta, Doreen

Women in environmental decision making : case studies in Ecuador, Liberia, and the Philippines

Across the globe, women are heavily involved in the environmental sector, including in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and in adapting to and mitigating climate change. However, women's participation and representation in decision-making processes that pertain to their and their families' environmental well-being are often restricted. In 2014, Conservation International collaborated with IUCN's Global Gender Office (GGO) to produce case studies about the state of women in environmental decision making in three countries: Ecuador, Liberia, and the Philippines.

Author(s)
Aguilar Revelo, Lorena
Gilligan, Molly
Luna, Melissa A.
Owren, Cate
Prebble, Maria
Westerman, Kame

Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods

Participatory Learning and Action is the world's leading informal journal on participatory approaches and methods. In this final issue of PLA, which includes articles submitted by the readers, the authors explore the links between participation, sustainable natural resource management and improving livelihoods. 

Gender at work : organizational change for equality

Author(s)
Rao, Aruna
Stuart, Rieky
Kelleher, David
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