• Gender and NRM

Gender and NRM

This guide aims to offer some conceptual and practical tools for improving natural resource management activities by incorporating a gender perspective. It argues that in most developing countries, women, particularly indigenous women, are responsible for obtaining water and fuel and for managing household consumption. As a result they are especially concerned with the quality and sustainability of natural resources. Yet because women are largely absent from decision-making, environmental policies often do not take into account the close links between their daily lives and the environment. This guide aims to start a dialogue among practitioners as to how gender and indigenous concerns can best become an integrated part of any natural resource management process.

The resource is divided into three parts: part one presents a number of case studies of the consequences of excluding and including indigenous and gender concerns in relation to natural resource management; part two provides suggestions and recommendations for including indigenous and gender concerns in natural resource management activities based on a project cycle approach; and part three (the Annexes) gives background information on the Network on Indigenous Peoples, Gender and Natural Resource Management (IGNARM).

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