Behavioral Sciences Approach to Empowering Women in Forest Landscape : Diagnostics Toolkit
Forests and terrestrial ecosystems play a primary environmental role in climate-change mitigation and adaptation. In many developing countries, forests provide ecosystem services and support the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, mainly...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099115007262211781/P1696270feccc600e0b1ed05a192911dcee http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37777 |
| Summary: | Forests and terrestrial ecosystems
play a primary environmental role in climate-change
mitigation and adaptation. In many developing countries,
forests provide ecosystem services and support the
livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, mainly the
poorest and most vulnerable in rural areas. The sustainable
management of natural resources can reduce poverty and
enhance shared prosperity at the local level. As countries
develop Natural Resource Management (NRM) and forest
management, it is crucial to ensure that these processes
include women in productive, income-generating activities.
Men and women access, use, and manage forests differently,
as seen in the gendered nature of activities such as
gathering forest products, hunting, wood harvesting, and
mineral collection. Furthermore, there are persistent gender
gaps in access to services, inputs (including credit and
financing), markets, value-addition activities, land tenure,
representation, and agency. The Forest Carbon Partnership
Facility (FCPF) and the World Bank (WB) have outlined a
program aimed at promoting gender equality in REDD+ and
foresty strategies and implementation. The FCPF is a global
partnership of governments, businesses, civil society, and
Indigenous Peoples (IPs) focused on reducing emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation, forest carbon stock
conservation, sustainable forest management, and the
enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries,
activities commonly referred to as REDD+. This document aims
to help task teams and practitioners identify and diagnose
factors contributing to gender gaps in sustainable forest
projects in FCPF countries by providing nine people-centered
research tools based in the behavioral sciences. Such gaps
can be rooted in gender norms, roles, and beliefs,
attentional limitations, and procedural hassles, among others. |
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