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4 FAO and RECOFTC, 2016 Mainstreaming Gender into Forestry Interventions IN ASIA AND THE PACIFICTRAINING MANuAlMAINSTREAMING Gender into Forestry Interventions IN ASIA AND THE PACIFICTRAINING MANuAlPublished bythe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nationsand RECOFTC - The Center for People and ForestsCONTENTSA cknowledgements 1 Acronyms 2 IntroductIon

5 4leArnIng Block 1: settIng tHe stAge 15 Session 1: Welcome and introduction 16 Session 2: Reflection on Gender in personal life 18 Session 3: Training objectives and learning flow 20leArnIng Block 2: BuIldIng A FoundAtIon For Gender AnAlysIs 23 Session 4: Gender and Gender roles 24 Session 5: Gender analysis 34 5a: Activity profile 34 5b: Access to and control of resources 37 5c: Influencing factors 40 Session 6: Gender equality and Gender equity 46 Session 7: Gender equality and Gender equity in the Forestry context 49leArnIng Block 3: Gender Mainstreaming 51 Session 8: International and national frameworks for Mainstreaming Gender into Forestry Interventions 52 Session 9: Gender Mainstreaming 63 Session 10: Effective participation of men and women for Gender Mainstreaming 69leArnIng Block 4: Mainstreaming Gender into Forestry PrActIcAl tools 77 Session 11.

6 Gender analysis in the Forestry context 78 Session 12: Gender -sensitive Forestry Interventions 89 Session 13: Assessment through a Gender lens 98 Session 14: Gender -sensitive objectives and indicators 104 Session 15: Challenges and solutions in Gender Mainstreaming 113leArnIng Block 5: reFlectIon For Future ActIons And eVAluAtIon 116 Session 16: Gender considerations at the organizational level 117 Session 17: Action planning 123 Session 18: Reflection on the learning journey 125useFul resources 127 PuBlIcAtIons 128weBsItes 130reFerences 132 Mainstreaming Gender into Forestry Interventions IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC1 ACKNOWlEDGEMENTSThis training manual has been developed as part of a regional project on Mainstreaming Gender into Forestry during 2013-2015.

7 The FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO-RAP) and RECOFTC The Center for People and Forests provided the funding support for the project, and RECOFTC coordinated the project s implementation. The training manual s development team members RECOFTC s Alessandra De Guio, Bishnu Hari Poudyal, Kuntum Melati, Ratchada Arpornsilp and Rejani Kunjappan would like to express their appreciation to Dr. Tint Lwin Thaung, Executive Director, RECOFTC for providing overall guidance and support, and to Mr.

8 Patrick Durst, Senior Program Officer, FAO-RAP for overseeing the project. The team also owes much to Trikurnianti (Yanti) Kusumanto, Bhawana Upadhyay and Toon de Bruyn, who worked on the initial drafts of this manual. The team would also like to express its appreciation to FAO-RAP s Dr. Yurdi Yasmi and Clara Park for providing valuable inputs, guidance and coordinated support throughout the project. In addition, the team would like to thank RECOFTC s internal review team: Binod Chapagain, Chandra Silori and Ronnakorn Triraganon, as well as Sunitha Bisan and Dr.

9 Carol J. Pierce Colfer, external reviewing training manual has also benefited from the critical comments and inputs made by participants from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Viet Nam in the test-training of this manual organized by RECOFTC during 17-20 November 2015. National experts and representatives of Forestry departments and ministries from eight Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission member countries Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Nepal, The Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam also provided valuable insight when the first draft of the training manual was presented during a regional expert workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2013.

10 Finally, the manual development team acknowledges the support and contributions of the experts and institutions that directly and indirectly helped provide all the necessary information and data. Without their contribution, the development of the training manual would have been 3rRights, Responsibilities and Returns (Analysis)AdBAsian Development Bank BdPABeijing Declaration and Platform for ActioncdtsCapacity development and technical servicescBdConvention on Biological DiversitycBFmCommunity-based forest managementcedAwConvention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomencFCommunity forestcFmcCommunity forest management committeecFugCommunity forest user groupcIForCenter for International Forestry ResearchcIdACanadian International Development Agency coPConference of the PartiescsoCivil society