Developed for a workshop on implementing gender methods and a gender analysis framework, this presentation gives practical steps and questions to help researchers think about gender issues, how gender issues may impact on a project, and how to build a framework or strategy to account for gender. This presentation was given by CIFOR scientist Carol Colfer on 9 November 2012, as part of a 3-day workshop to provide a gender framework that might help the CIFOR team and our NGO collaborators address gender more effectively.

1. Strategies and Gender
Frameworks:
Carol’s First Tries
CAROL J. PIERCE COLFER
FOR
SUSTAINABLE SULAWESI PROJECT
9 NOVEMBER 2012

2. Need to Accomplish in 3 days (or revise?)
 Familiarity & adaptation of gender analysis
framework
 Discussion of/perhaps decision on (?) some gender
methods suitable for team needs
 Thoughts about overall goals & indicators - are we
reaching them
 Some help to pull this together into joint papers on:
 our implementation of the gender framework perhaps
 Second one, topic open, to be led by someone else…[I help]

3. Outline of Presentation
 Graphic display of gender analysis framework
 One pager – in words
 Issues by Scale – more words
 Macro
 Meso
 Micro
 Intersection with Gender Strategy

4. The Gender Box

5. One Pager (Table 1)
Macro Meso Micro
 Formal laws/policies X
 Cultural/religious trends X
 access to natural resources X
 norms of behaviour X
 access to education X
 access to cash X
X
 day to day economic roles
X
 demographic issues X
 domestic roles X
 intra-household power dynamics X
 available economic alternatives

6. Table 2: Gender Framework
Consider how these factors (which actually
transcend scales) function where you work.
In what ways might they hinder or reinforce your
work at the field level?

7. Two Issues at Macro Scale
Broadly based, global 'rules' that affect people's
interactions with forests
A. Are there formal, global laws and policies that affect local
people and forests? How?
B. What religious traditions, narratives of modernity or
equity, or other less formal, global, intellectual forces
affect local people and forests?

8. Four Issues at Meso Scale (1)
Social patterns from landscape to national levels that
influence people's behaviour in relation to forests
1. How is access to resources gendered? Are
there broadly accepted notions that influence
land tenure, inheritance and residence?
2. What are the gendered norms of behaviour
that affect people's interactions with trees and
forests (e.g. masculinity ideals, seclusion of
women, witchcraft beliefs)?

9. Four Issues at Meso Scale (2)
3. Are there gendered differences in access to
education (both formal and informal)? How
do they affect men, women and forest
management differently?
4. How important is cash in the regional system,
and how has this affected men and women
differently?

10. Five Issues at Micro Scale (1)
Human behaviours from household to village levels
that affect forests and people's well being
1. How do men's and women's day to day economic
roles differ - especially in terms of agriculture,
forest products, livestock?
2. What gendered demographic issues affect forests
and people locally (e.g., migration, population
changes, birth control)?
3. What essential/valued domestic roles do men and
women play, respectively, that affect their respective
involvement in forests?

11. Five Issues at Micro Scale (2)
4. Identifiable patterns in intra-household
power dynamics? How do men's and
women's interests conflict, converge? Are there
bargaining strategies used by each?
5. What are the features of locally available,
alternative economic strategies designed
to enhance people's livelihoods, trees and
forests? Differential effects on men and
women?

12. Key Intersections with CRP6 Gender Strategy
Primary Outcome:
Women are better empowered,
and gender equality in
decision making control over
forest, tree and agroforestry
resource use, management and benefits
is improved.

13. Key Considerations Across
CRP6 Research Components
 Knowledge, preferences and priorities reflected in
identification of research topics
 Negative impacts identified and avoided/mitigated
 Differential access and ability to adopt materials,
methods and knowledge accounted for in activities
 Equitable participation in and ability to influence
decisionmaking processes enhanced