2. REDD+
ïź 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
ïź REDD+ goes beyond, to include role of conservation,
SFM
ïź Performance-based payments to forest owners and
users
ïź Should be possible for poor forest dependent
community members to gain multiple benefits
3. If designed and implemented wellâŠ
Significant co-benefits of REDD+ :
ïź Ensure secure tenure
ïź Reduce poverty
ïź Sustainable livelihood
ïź biodiversity conservation
ïź climate change adaptation
4. Risks to community members
ïź Lack of secure rights and
tenure
ïź Restrictions on forest
use, in forests managed
for conservation, carbon
sequestration
ïź Unequal benefit sharing
mechanisms
ïź Focus on technical
aspects
6. Gender Assessment in Cambodia,
Vietnam, Indonesia, Nepal
1. What are womenâs 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. Womenâs Potential Contribution to
REDD+
ïź Primary users and
managers of forests
ïź Local knowledge
ïź High dependence on
NTFPs for livelihoods
ïź Roles in forest protection,
not only harvesting
8. Gender Integration in REDD+
ïź Little evidence that
institutions implementing
REDD+ or PES projects
have incorporated gender
in systematic and
significant ways;
ïź 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+
ïź Importance of secure tenure in REDD+
ïź If REDD+ brings about compliance with international
conventions on womenâs rights (i.e. CEDAW), could
positively affect women through payments and co-
benefits, including land rights.
ïź But if womenâs rights are ignored, REDD could result in
womenâs restricted access to forests and NTFPs,
increasing time and distance to collect fuel wood, food,
other products and further marginalizing them;
ïź Unsecure tenure rights for women;
ïź Few countries provide joint rights to community forest
user group membership, or formal rights needed for
revenue sharing;
10. Benefit Sharing Mechanism
ïź 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;
ïź Rights to benefit sharing
often determined by
tenure rights;
11. Participation
Low levels of
âmeaningfulâ
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
ïź Illiteracy: lack of access to
education;
ïź 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;
ïź Exclusion: lack of recognition
of roles, responsibilities and
rights of women in forest
management.
14. Institutional âgender blindnessâ
ïź Lack of awareness of gender
issues within forestry
institutions;
ïź Institutional biases that
determine âappropriateâ roles for
women, based on socio-cultural
norms;
ïź Few women professionals to
challenge these norms results
in a failure to recognize and
legitimate womenâs roles,
knowledge and contributions to
forest management.
15. Leadership
ïź Perception that women
cannot lead, based on
low education levels;
ïź No activities to strengthen
womenâs leadership in
forest and REDD+
governance;
16. Despite that concernsâŠ
ïź Women champions
exists in variety of
levels;
ïź Women networks can
be powerful to change
the situation
17. Recommendations
ïź Incorporate gender perspective in the project design
and implementation;
ïź Provide capacity building for women and space for
womenâs voice;
ïź Ensuring secured tenure for women;
ïź Strengthen womenâs organizations/self help groups to
provide them with skills and knowledge;
ïź Develop benefit distribution systems that recognize and
reward womenâs contributions to forest management;
ïź Promote technologies that reduce womenâs work loads
while promoting conservation
ïź increasing menâs supports for women participation and
leadership in REDD+.
18. Concluding Remarks
ïź Womenâs unsecured
tenure bring a lot of
implications
ïź Neglect of womenâs
rights in climate
change policies and
initiative is
problematic;