Do you want to know how to integrate gender into your biodiversity conservation work?
Women, Men, and Environmental Change: The Gender Dimensions of Environmental Policies and Programs
By Justine Sass, 2002, Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
This brief examines how gender differences play a part in natural resource use, how resource depletion affects women and men differently, and what has been done worldwide to integrate gender concerns in environmental planning.
English (8 pages, PDF, 166 KB)
Gender and Ecoregion Conservation
By Ecoregional Conservation Strategies Unit, 2001, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Sharing Across Boundaries, Issue 2
Gender is one of the key variables to consider during a stakeholder assessment, given the influence that gender differences have on how men and women respond to conservation challenges and opportunities. This publication lays out the questions and tools that ecoregion conservation practitioners need to be considering.
English (6 pages, PDF, 70 KB)
Social Dimensions in a Biological World: Integrating Gender and Conservation in Priority Ecoregions
By Center for Conservation Innovation/Conservation Strategies Unit, 2001, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Drawing on its range of experience in developing conservation plans that accurately reflect the ways men and women interact with resources, World Wildlife Fund presents this collection of examples, conclusions, and recommendations that explore issues of gender and their integration within conservation planning and action. The paper also explores the variety of approaches and tools to address gender within conservation planning and action-from mapping biological and socioeconomic variables to direct gender analysis.
English (10 pages, PDF, 173 KB)
Conceptual Framework for Gender and Community-based Conservation
By Marianne Schmink, 1999, Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis (MERGE), University of Florida
The conceptual framework discussed in this case study is a dynamic product of collective work and reflection that illustrates the learning process within the MERGE Program. The framework builds on experiences with participatory conservation, gender and environment.
English (17 pages, PDF, 953 KB)
Español (18 páginas, PDF, 161 KB)
Português (17 páginas, PDF, 193 KB)
Working with Community-based Conservation with a Gender Focus: A Guide
By Mary Hill Rojas, 2000, Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis (MERGE), University of Florida
This guide is built on examples and lessons learned from the Parks in Peril Program. It provides six steps to begin to understand gender analysis and its importance to conservation, including the following: developing a rationale for paying attention to gender; deconstructing terms to understand roles and relations; highlighting women as participants in conservation; building on women's individual and group experience; removing barriers to participation; and working across sectors.
English (12 pages, PDF, 800 KB)
Español (14 páginas, PDF, 137 KB)
Português (13 páginas, PDF, 138 KB)
Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research
By A. Horvoka and A. Adamo, 1998, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
The Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Program initiative of the International Development Research Centre does not seek to "add women" to its current activities, but rather to integrate gender analysis into its research on biodiversity. This document provides a step by step guide for incorporating gender analysis into all stages of a biodiversity research project.
English (48 pages, PDF, 120 KB)
Gender Action
By Office of Women in Development, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Winter 1997-1998
This issue of Gender Action focuses on efforts to ensure women's full participation in natural resource management. Some of the factors contributing to women's poverty are identified in this issue's lead article, along with the impact of poverty on the environment. Other articles focus on ways USAID is responding to gender concerns in its natural resource management projects.
English (10 pages, PDF, 38 KB)
Do you need tools for integrating gender into your work?
In Search of the Lost Gender: Equity in Protected Areas
By Lorena Aguilar-Itza Castañeda and Hilda Salazar, 2002, World Conservation Union (IUCN)
This document was developed to facilitate protected areas planning, management and administration, to seek greater social equity, particularly among women and men. The document is useful to conservation practitioners interested in promoting gender equity in protected areas initiatives.
English
Part 1 (6 pages, PDF, 783 KB)
Part 2 (8 pages, PDF, 2.41 MB)
Part 3 (38 pages, PDF, 2.41 MB)
Part 4 (16 pages, PDF, 2.41 MB)
Part 5 (52 pages, PDF, 2.40 MB)
Part 6 (30 pages, PDF, 2.40 MB)
Part 7 (26 pages, PDF, 2.40 MB)
Part 8 (22 pages, PDF, 2.40 MB)
Part 9 (32 pages, PDF, 2.30 MB)
Gender Analysis and Forestry Training Package
By Vicki L. Wilde and Arja Vainio-Mattila, 1995, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
This training package includes information about: how to design and implement participatory training programs; how to design and carry out participatory training workshops; how to use rapid rural appraisal (RRA) to develop case studies; and how forestry can benefit from gender analysis.
English
Part 1 (1 page, PDF, 35 KB)
Part 2 (2 pages, PDF, 454 KB)
Part 3 (13 pages, PDF, 728 KB)
Part 4 (22 pages, PDF, 975 KB)
Part 5 (22 pages, PDF, 1.52 MB)
Part 6 (23 pages, PDF, 1.32 MB)
Part 7 (6 pages, PDF, 650 KB)
Part 8 (28 pages, PDF, 821 KB)
Part 9 (22 pages, PDF, 1.70 MB)
Part 10 (79 pages, PDF, 3.91 MB)
Part 11 (15 pages, PDF, 2.72 MB)
Socio-economic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) Publications
By Socio-economic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) Program, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
The SEAGA publications offer practical tools and methods for integrating socio-economic and gender issues at different levels and within different technical areas. SEAGA Information Kit: These documents briefly illustrate what the SEAGA program is about and how it works. Macro, Intermediate and Field Level Handbooks: The three handbooks provide practical information for field workers (field level), development planners (intermediate level) and policy makers (macro level) on how to undertake socio-economic and gender analysis at the respective levels. Each handbook presents case studies and tools to help development practitioners collect, analyze and use information. Each handbook also suggests methods for integrating the findings to policy program and project identification and formulation. Guides: These are issue- and sector-specific guides that integrate socio-economic and gender analysis. For example, the "SEAGA Sector Guide on Irrigation" combines irrigation issues and practices with socio-economic and gender analysis concerns. The emphasis is on 'why' and 'how' to plan activities in a participatory way. The guides use real examples and studies to illustrate main issues and the practical use of tools and concepts.
English (available online at: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/seaga/4_en.htm)
Español (disponible por Internet: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/seaga/4_es.htm)
Français (disponible sur Internet: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/seaga/4_fr.htm)
Português (http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/seaga/4_pt.htm)
Tools of Gender Analysis: A Guide to Field Methods for Bringing Gender into Sustainable Resource Management
By Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Andrea Lee Esser, and M. Dale Shields, 1993, Ecology, Community Organization and Gender (ECOGEN) Research Project, Clark University
This document includes eleven chapters covering: problem identification; in-depth household interviews; focus group discussions; participant observation; improving project design and implementation; surveys; gender-disaggregated seasonal activities calendar; activities, resources and benefits analyses; improving project management; and gender-sensitive monitoring of project progress (GMPP).
English (18 pages, PDF, 417 KB)
Would you like to learn more about the relation between gender and coastal resource management?
Sustaining Economies and Ecosystems: Gender and Coastal Resource Management
By U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 1998
Women in coastal communities depend on the availability of the natural resources in order to raise their income and the diet of their families. Their labor, however, is less visible than men's. Women are rarely the owners of the machinery and technical equipment to use the natural resources, and do not have control over or access to the resources they need.
English (4 pages, PDF, 15 KB)
Would you like to see case studies and field experiences about gender and natural resource management?
A Platform for Action for the Sustainable Management of Mangroves in the Gulf of Fonseca
By Manuel Benitez, et al, 2000, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 2000
There are multiple stakeholders with diverse interests in the use and transformation of the mangrove ecosystem in the Gulf of Fonseca. Although these stakeholders may compete for the ecosystem goods and services there is also potential to harmonize their interests in order to secure the sustainable management of the ecosystem.
English (34 pages, PDF, 1.40 MB)
Gender Equity in Coastal Zone Management: Experiences from Tanga, Tanzania
By T. van Ingen, C. Kawau and S. Wells, 2002, World Conservation Union (IUCN)
This publication describes the process used to improve gender equity in coastal resource management in three districts and the results achieved. It aims to document and make available to other projects, the experiences gained in "learning to work with a gender perspective." It provides insights on the benefits and challenges of pursuing such an approach in conservation and of gender mainstreaming process.
English (39 pages, PDF, 490 KB)
Gender and Shifting Population Trends in Protected Areas in the Dominican Hinterlands: The Implications of Female Outmigration for Conservation in the Cordillera Central
By Matthew McPherson and Timothy Schwartz, 2001, Office of Women in Development, U.S. Agency for International Development (WIDTECH)
This document investigates skewed sex-ratios favoring males and explores how gender analysis can provide an opening into a broader and more in-depth understanding of the conservation process in the Hispaniolan Pine ecoregion of the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic.
English (41 pages, PDF, 361 KB)
A Gender Sensitive Study of Perceptions and Practices In and Around Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
By Fiona Flintan, 2000, International Famine Centre and World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
This document presents the results of an "Engendering Eden" study carried out on an integrated conservation and development project (ICDP) around Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia, assessing linkages between gender issues and conservation and development activities.
English (71 pages, PDF, 891 KB)
Demographic Dynamics, Gender and Resource Use in the Galapagos Islands
By Jason Bremner and Jaime Perez, 2001
This paper reviews the most recent demographic information available from the Galapagos special census. This special census information is compared to previous census data in order to reveal important trends and gender role changes. The remainder of the paper is dedicated to the review of several smaller scale surveys recently conducted by social scientists in the Galapagos. These surveys have in various degrees measured the attitudes, knowledge and practices of different subsets of men and women in the Galapagos. The analysis of existing data is used to make conclusions about gender changes in demographics and potential impacts on resources use patterns and conservation. The paper makes recommendations for mitigating these impacts and incorporating gender-based population-environment research into conservation planning.
English (27 pages, PDF, 288 KB)
Gender, Conservation, and Community Participation: The Case of the Jaú National Park, Brazil
By Regina Oliveira and Elza Suely Anderson, 1999, Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis (MERGE), University of Florida
This document describes the experience of including gender, community participation and partnerships in their conservation activities in the Jaú National Park. It serves as an example of how gender as a variable can contribute to research, management plans, community participation, and other basic activities in the consolidation of conservation areas.
English (16 pages, PDF, 1.12 MB)
Español (16 páginas, PDF, 1.64 MB)
Português (16 páginas, PDF, 1.86 MB)
Incorporation of a Gender Focus in Participatory Conservation: Where We Are Now
By Susana Alban, Paulina Arroyo, and Susan Poats, 2002, Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI)
This draft concept paper addresses the current state of the incorporation of gender in participatory conservation. It was written in follow-up to an international forum held in Quito, Ecuador in March 2001 and entitled "Conserving Biodiversity from the Andes to the Amazon: Community Conservation with a Gender Perspective."
English (49 pages, PDF, 294 KB)
Would you like to access more information about gender perspectives in conservation?
Gender, Biodiversity and Local Knowledge Systems (LinKS) Web Site
By Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
This Web site presents a Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) project entitled "LinKS Project-Gender, Biodiversity and Local Systems for Food Security." This site shares information of LinKS project implementation in four countries of Southern Africa-Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
English (available online at: http://www.fao.org/sd/links/home/prima.html)
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