Abstract
This practitioner’s guide explains how to promote gender-responsive forest tenure reform in community-based forest regimes. It is aimed at those taking up this challenge in developing countries. There is no one single approach to reforming forest tenure practices for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. Rather, it involves taking advantage of opportunities that emerge in various institutional arenas such as policy and law-making and implementation, government administration, customary or community-based tenure governance, or forest restoration at the landscape scale. This sourcebook provides multiple forms of guidance from: conceptual ideas, operational direction, good practices, case-study insights, research findings and resources for further exploration from across Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is designed to support a wide range of practitioners, women and men, from a range of institutions such as government offices, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, donor agencies, women’s organizations, as well as networks and federations. This includes gender experts who are responsible for the integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment in their respective organizations, and also those working broadly in the world of land tenure, forest tenure and governance, forest landscape restoration, agroforestry, value-chain development and social impact enterprises. The goal is to journey along the pathways to forest tenure reform through a three-step process: Analyze, Strategize and Realize. Focused diagnostic analysis to create an empirical foundation for change can support the design of sequential interventions to promote gender-responsive forest tenure reform at various scales. To this end, the guide is a timely resource to support high-impact interventions suited to accelerating change within the national and local context in community-based forest tenure regimes. Contents Acknowledgments and The Practitioner’s Guide in a nutshell Gender-responsive accelerators for forest tenure reform With gender in mind: Forest tenure policy, legal reform and government administration Gender matters in community-based forest tenure References Annexes
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This includes gender experts who are responsible for the integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment in their respective organizations, and those working broadly in the world of land tenure, forest tenure and governance, forest landscape restoration, agroforestry, value-chain development and social impact enterprises
5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights the importance of community tenure and governance for forests (IFRI and Resources Initiative (RRI) 2016; Katila et al 2020), it is clear that gender responsive forest tenure reform can support the achievement of many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (FAO 2018; RRI 2018; Arora-Jonsson et al 2019; Winkel et al 2019; Katila et al 2020)
While support for community tenure and governance is missing from the Paris Agreement3 (RRI 2016), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2019 special report on Climate Change and Land recognizes the importance of land tenure, including community and customary forms of tenure, as well as gender agency as critical factors in climate and land sustainability outcomes (IPCC 2020)
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We were not seeking women’s participation to increase statistics, but to be active in every process. Meeting the development hopes and environmental well-being of all requires multiple changes in tenure regimes: enabling women and men to participate, collectively deciding rules that are socially inclusive, building sustainable forests, equitably sharing distributed benefits and leveraging forest resources for enterprise development. The push for gender equality in community-based forest tenure regimes comes from many directions: local women, male champions, women’s federations, forestry federations, civil society groups, local and international NGOs, parliamentarians, donor agencies and, importantly, from the government’s development and policy agenda. Such reform does not happen overnight or in a linear way: change can come from above as well as below.
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