Initiatives and Projects

Assuming the challenge of the equity of gender in the environmental management in Latin America

Date of execution:

from August 22, 2002 to January 22, 2004

Description

This project responds to the necessities stated by personnel of governmental organizations and non governmental organizations, as well as researchers that work with gender equity in environmental management within the Latin American context in relation with:

Gender  Equito in Environmental Management

Documentation 1 and Exchange of experiences.

There are a great number of positive and negative field experiences, that due to lack of time of the personnel, have not been documented, thus limiting the access to this information to verbal communications among a very restricted number of people.

Develop practical methodologies to achieve the mainstreaming of the gender equito approach.

Despite of the willingness of project leaders or program managers at a national or local level, to incorporate the gender equity approach in all their activities, they do not find practical responses to use in their particular field of expertise.

Objectives

General Objective

Promote a more effective mainstreaming of the gender equity approach in environmental management in Latin America.

Specific Objectives

• To document successful and non-successful field experiences where there has been an attempt to incorporate gender consideration in environmental initiatives.

• From this process of documenting experiences, to create a learning community to incorporate the gender equity approach in conservation and development initiatives in Latin America.

• To create a web portal and an electronic list to support the process of documentation and the development of the learning community.

Thus, the Project seeks to support the documentation of field experiences where there has been a strong Hill to mainstream the gender equity approach in all activities. Also, by taking this process of documentation we seek to establish the base for a learning community and a virtual network which will allow: the Exchange and free access to methodologies and other resources, with an open space for discussions that can generate synergies that promote and analyze appropriate ways to mainstream gender considerations in the initiatives of development and conservation in Latin America.

1 We understand as documentation the analysis and critic interpretation of a social process lived by women and men from the organizations and projects executed by them. In this process we recognize how and when the gender social filter has intervene in whatever they have achieved, in the course of decision making processes, the paths they have followed, the resources utilized, and the choices taken. (Source: Sharing Secrets: sistematizing with equity)

Outcomes

About fifty documented experiences distributed about the implementation of initiatives on gender and environment in Latin America.

Improved access to environmental management methodologies with gender equity useful for the planning, management, monitoring and evaluation of the different development initiatives.

Capacity building for participants to use technological tools and methodologies to be used in their projects.

Create an space where the different organizations can have access to technical assistance, trainings, advice, information, contact with other networks and organizations working in the same subject.

Increase the capacities of the local communities in different countries of Latin America to promote a better understanding of how to mainstream the gender equity approach in their development programs and projects.

Strengthen a learning community about “gender and environment” in which participants from all Latin America can Exchange experiences, and discuss subjects like the implementation of practical methodologies in their everyday work that may help promote a better understanding of the way how people control and use natural resources.

Publish a compilation of the best 30 documented experiences (Everything Counts!) in a book that analyzes the outcomes of the project.

Future of the Project

The GALAC Network is a virtual learning community that will be active in the website to facilitate consultation processes, coordination and exchange of new initiatives, knowledges and questions from the community of Latin American experts in Gender and Environment.

To subscribe to the GALAC network

The data base of the documented experiences within the Latin American Context remains open. If you would like to collaborate with the documentation of your field experience in mainstreaming gender in environmental initiatives you may access the form to submit tour case study. The objective of this form is to guide you on the information needed to document your experience.

a. Proposal for the documentation of field experiences

b. Methodological manual to support the documentation process

c. Formula for the recuperation and gathering of meaningful experiences on gender and environment. This form is available in MS Word format  and in its electronic version (HTML).