Incidence for the environmental management approaching gender equity in the management of hydrographic river basins, the biodiversity and the ecosystems of dry land
Date of execution:
from October 2003 to December 2005
Description
This proposal consolidates the products reached in the Project RM 032021 “Putting gender into practice: Construction of practical modules to mainstream a gender equity perspective into specific ecosystems”, executed by the Regional Office for Mesoamerica of the World Conservation Union (ORMA-UICN) supported by the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (HIVOS). In this project three theory-practical modules were published aim to be used as a tool in the processes of training, understood as integral learning and participatory processes, to incorporate the gender equity approach into environmental management of specific ecosystems.
This proposal for incidence in the environmental management with a gender equity approach in watershed management, biodiversity and dry lands ecosystems proposes capacity building to make the linkages between gender and environment in social organizations working in environmental management in the above mentioned areas. Planning considers fostering processes of dialogue and coalition among the organizations and representatives or focal points of international instruments (agreements or conventions) related to these subjects.
Gender Equito in Environmental Management
Documentation1 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
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To strengthen and consolidate national and regional processes in Central America to seek the equitable participation of women and men in the initiatives of rural sustainable development.
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To promote and have incidence in the elaboration of public policies in the governing institutions of the environmental sector in five countries (Mexico, Chile, Dominican Republic, El Salvador. And Guatemala ) for them to mainstreaming of the gender equity approach.
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To start a process of incidence in the governing entities of the agricultural sector in five countries of the region, that will allow the incorporation of the gender equity approach.
To develop a strategy that could guarantee the sustainability of the process of this project, or a local and regional level.
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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) |
