Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

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Gender Equality - additional training material by WOCAN

Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) is a women-led international membership network of women and men professionals that provides expertise to assist agriculture and natural resource management organizations strengthen women’s leadership and mainstream gender into their internal structures, programs, projects and policies. WOCAN was established in 2004 with the objective to address three major gaps that emerge from the knowledge and experiences of sustainable and rural development processes. These are: policies regarding gender within the agriculture and natural resource management sectors; roles of professional women in implementing policy objectives for rural women’s empowerment and gender equality within these sectors, and organizational barriers that obstruct women from realizing positions of leadership and influence to take on such roles. Its website contains many tools dedicated to gender equality, or training material on gender and forestry, REDD+ and natural resource management; a key search, makes them easily available.
Type of Tool
Website
Scale of Application
Global
Region
Global
Biome
All
Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)
Primary Designated Function
All
Management Responsibility
All