Gender and natural resource governance indicators: a need to assess and address ‘sensitive and taboo’ topics

Abstract

Gender and governance or management are topics that have been inadequately addressed by researchers, with resulting very slow progress towards gender equity globally. A collaborative landscape management project in South and Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesia) has been trying to strengthen women's voices in local management and governance and to encourage more equitable benefit distribution throughout the landscape. The need for a simple assessment of the project's success presented an opportunity for us to develop a set of indicators that we believe can be adapted and used more widely. Our indicators, presented below, differ from other indicator sets available, most fundamentally in their foci on (1) gender and governance/ forest management, (2) a combination of production and other more sensitive issues central to women's lives, and (3) intra-household decision-making.

Forest tenure pathways to gender equality: A practitioner’s guide

“…The particular set of indicators will, of course, have to be tailored to the objectives but some illustrative guidance can be valuable for designing them (see Figure 20). While many indicators are quantitative, and are often structured to facilitate comparisons (nationally or globally) or are compatible with larger statistical data collection templates, they do not necessarily help project beneficiaries to reflect upon their own perceptions or the real changes they have gone through (Colfer et al 2013). The data collection methodology, therefore, needs to be put together not only in a gender-responsive way (see Elias 2013;Doss and Kieran 2014), but also consider how the analysis will be used and by whom.…”

Quelques pistes de réflexion pour une tenure forestière paritaire : Manuel du praticien

“…figure20). Si de nombreux indicateurs sont quantitatifs et souvent structurés pour faciliter les comparaisons (au niveau national ou mondial) ou compatibles avec des modèles de collecte de données statistiques de plus grande envergure, ils n'aident pas nécessairement les bénéficiaires du projet à réfléchir à leurs propres perceptions ou aux changements réels subis(Colfer et al 2013). La méthodologie de collecte des données doit donc être élaborée non seulement en tenant compte de la dimension de genre (voirElias 2013 ;Doss et Kieran 2014), mais aussi des modalités d'utilisation de l'analyse et de la qualité des usagers.…”