2. REDD+
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest
Degradation to create incentives for developing
countries to reduce GHG and invest in low carbon
paths to sustainable development
REDD+ goes beyond, to include role of conservation,
SFM
Performance-based payments to forest owners and
users
Should be possible for poor forest dependent
community members to gain multiple benefits
3. If designed and implemented well…
Significant co-benefits of REDD+ :
Ensure secure tenure
Reduce poverty
Sustainable livelihood
biodiversity conservation
climate change adaptation
4. Risks to community members
Lack of secure rights and
tenure
Restrictions on forest
use, in forests managed
for conservation, carbon
sequestration
Unequal benefit sharing
mechanisms
Focus on technical
aspects
6. Gender Assessment in Cambodia,
Vietnam, Indonesia, Nepal
1. What are women’s roles in
forest management?
2. How have gender issues
been incorporated in REDD+
projects?
3. What constraints affect
gender integration into
REDD+?
4. Recommendations for
REDD+ and Sustainable
Landscapes program
7. Women’s Potential Contribution to
REDD+
Primary users and
managers of forests
Local knowledge
High dependence on
NTFPs for livelihoods
Roles in forest protection,
not only harvesting
8. Gender Integration in REDD+
Little evidence that
institutions implementing
REDD+ or PES projects
have incorporated gender
in systematic and
significant ways;
No specific recognition of
women as a stakeholder
group that will be affected
by REDD+ differently than
men;
9. Women and Land Tenure in REDD+
Importance of secure tenure in REDD+
If REDD+ brings about compliance with international
conventions on women’s rights (i.e. CEDAW), could
positively affect women through payments and co-
benefits, including land rights.
But if women’s rights are ignored, REDD could result in
women’s restricted access to forests and NTFPs,
increasing time and distance to collect fuel wood, food,
other products and further marginalizing them;
Unsecure tenure rights for women;
Few countries provide joint rights to community forest
user group membership, or formal rights needed for
revenue sharing;
10. Benefit Sharing Mechanism
Assumptions that women
will benefit automatically
from community-focused
activities. Many cases
show elite and male
capture of benefits due to
women lack of access to
decision making
processes;
Rights to benefit sharing
often determined by
tenure rights;
11. Participation
Low levels of
‘meaningful’
participation by
women in forest
governance bodies as
well as REDD+
decision making
processes at local,
national and global
level.
12. Nepal Case
Chitwan District Dolakha District
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Women
30 80
Men
Women
25 70
16 Men
60 39
20
50
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40
10
16 30
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13. Barriers to participation
Illiteracy: lack of access to
education;
Limited time and mobility:
Work burdens of women that
allow little time to participate in
capacity building activities,
and opportunities to voice their
concerns and perspectives;
Exclusion: lack of recognition
of roles, responsibilities and
rights of women in forest
management.
14. Institutional ‘gender blindness’
Lack of awareness of gender
issues within forestry
institutions;
Institutional biases that
determine ‘appropriate’ roles for
women, based on socio-cultural
norms;
Few women professionals to
challenge these norms results
in a failure to recognize and
legitimate women’s roles,
knowledge and contributions to
forest management.
15. Leadership
Perception that women
cannot lead, based on
low education levels;
No activities to strengthen
women’s leadership in
forest and REDD+
governance;
16. Despite that concerns…
Women champions
exists in variety of
levels;
Women networks can
be powerful to change
the situation
17. Recommendations
Incorporate gender perspective in the project design
and implementation;
Provide capacity building for women and space for
women’s voice;
Ensuring secured tenure for women;
Strengthen women’s organizations/self help groups to
provide them with skills and knowledge;
Develop benefit distribution systems that recognize and
reward women’s contributions to forest management;
Promote technologies that reduce women’s work loads
while promoting conservation
increasing men’s supports for women participation and
leadership in REDD+.
18. Concluding Remarks
Women’s unsecured
tenure bring a lot of
implications
Neglect of women’s
rights in climate
change policies and
initiative is
problematic;
