• Gender and NRM

Gender and NRM

This issue of the newsletter looks at issues of gender for MPAs. The main article states that decisionmaking on the use of coastal and marine resources is often principally based on the input of men. Through interviews with key practitioners, the article looks at the barriers to women's involvement in marine resource management and negative outcomes from their lack of participation.

It is argued that women's participation is especially important for community based marine reserves as women bring a special set of skills that can be useful in community-based planning. "Women can be especially effective at setting up community-based MPAs with disenfranchised resource-user groups that are distrustful of authority," said one MPA manager. "Women are generally not seen as part of the power structure or as competing for authority"

The document discusses barriers and roles of women in communities around marine reserves as well as of practitioners working in them.

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