Attachment_10_-_Gender_Analysis_Matrix_-_RED.xlsx

Final Gender Analysis

Men’s and women’s knowledge of the forest is different because they use different forest resources. Women are more likely to collect berries, fruit, or twigs and small branches for fuel from a tree, while men will cut down the same tree to sell as firewood or for use in construction.

In a study in Sierra Leone, women could name 31 uses of trees on fallow land and in the forest, while men named eight different uses. This shows how men and women have distinct realms of knowledge and application for natural resource management, both of which are necessary for sustainable use and conservation.

Decision making is an important function in forest user groups and requires the participation of the whole community; however, many forest projects have not been able to include women successfully. relevant ENV programs often work in areas populated and owned by Afro-Colombian and indigenous groups, they are the main beneficiaries of many of the ENV activities; ENV should pay particular attention to the roles women play in biodiversity efforts and augment them. • Conduct a social analysis, identifying the needs, interests, knowledge and behaviors by gender.

• Facilitate women’s participation in the design of conservation activities.

• Incorporate a gender perspective in educational materials.

• Involve women in methods to monitor project activities.

• Promote ecotourism endeavors by women or that are women led.

• Ensure that both women and men have equal access to funds made available through carbon credit exchanges.

• Promote entrepreneurship of women in productive activities in carbon exchange process.

• Capacity building for women groups to participate effectively in REDD+ practices and processes.

World Bank:The Gap Matters (2005)Poverty and Well-Being of Afro-Colombians and Indigenous Peoples.Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Unit Latin America and The Caribbean Region. Support the generation of grassroots development alternatives based on the sustainable use of biodiversity resources. Based on the biological heritage of the indigenous reserves and the collective territories of black communities, sustainable altematives for generating income that contribute to the well-being of the population and the appropriate use of natural resources must be developed in collaboration with the communities themselves. This also involves practical measures to protect, recover, validate, and promote the traditional systems for learning about, managing, and sustainably using biological resources so that there will be policy guidelines like those contained in the 1998 National Biodiversity Action Plan.

There should be cooperation with peasant productive systems in the economy so that these systems can reach sustainable levels of productivity. As a result, a special credit, finance and technical assistance policy should be established for the indigenous reserves and the collective territories of Afro-Colombian communities with a model for technology transfer that values local knowledge and practices

• Facilitate women’s participation in the design of conservation activities.

• Incorporate a gender perspective in educational materials.

• Involve women in methods to monitor project activities.

• Promote ecotourism endeavors by women or that are women led.

What is the involvement or role of women in land planning? Is the lack of titles an issue to consider? What other alternatives besides titling to women can help improve land management? Lorena Aguilar, Gabriela Mata and Andrea Quesada-Aguilar, “Gender and Biodiversity”, International Union for Conservation of Nature, 2010 In rural areas, land distribution is inequitable; less than 1% of the population owns more than half of Colombia’s best land. Land tenure is insecure, particularly for indigenous peoples and members of women-headed households who have been forcibly displaced at disproportionately high levels. Successive government interventions aimed at fostering land reform have been largely ineffective due to corruption within government institutions responsible for reform, as well as a lack of financial and human-resource capacity. In the early 2000s, the Government of Colombia de-emphasized land reform and shifted focus to rural development through agribusiness.