Gender Roles and practices in natural resource management in the North West Province of Cameroon

Fonjong, Lotsmart

doi:10.1080/13549830701809809

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“…Migration is also a gendered activity that is mainly available to men. In line with our findings, other studies have shown that African women and female-headed households are relatively more vulnerable, cash-deprived, and consequently, more dependent on environmental assets than men and male-headed households (Fonjong 2008, Yemiru et al 2010, Kalaba et al 2013, Perez et al 2015. Hence, an important observation is that a gendered livelihood approach to ecosystem services will often reach beyond questions of gender toward understandings of how gendered experiences intersect, for example, with processes of wealth accumulation, i.e., through differentiated access to productive assets and the differentiation of productive and domestic labor.…”

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“…Whereas other criteria, for example, wealth, occupation, caste, ethnicity, religion, and age, may also be relevant in other contexts (Rönnbäck et al 2007, Hamann et al 2016, Brown and Fortnam 2018, in patriarchal rural communities in developing countries, where gender norms strongly mediate livelihoods, gender is critical in defining the differential benefits that people experience from the environment. Not seldom, gender intersects with wealth, resulting in the latter becoming, to a large extent, a variable that is dependent on the former (Fonjong 2008, Yemiru et al 2010, Perez et al 2015.…”

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Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture

Porsani¹,

Börjeson²,

Lalander³

et al. 2020

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Based on a case study from rural Mozambique, we stress that ecosystem services research may be enriched through gendered livelihood approaches, particularly in terms of experienced ecosystem services. Ecosystem services studies have been accused of being gender blind. We argue for the value of open narratives that are attentive to the gender dynamics underpinning the production and reproduction of livelihoods. By focusing on the experienced gender dimension of ecosystem services, livelihood perspectives fulfill the normative role of providing a people-centered means to assess the values of the environment "from below" and can therefore constitute an entry point to a holistic understanding of by whom, how, when, and why the environment is experienced as valuable. Our findings stress the dynamism and plurality of experienced ecosystem services (i.e., they vary across groups and time and cross-cut material and immaterial dimensions), as well as the asymmetrical gendered and fundamentally cultural relations that they enable. Accounting for the experienced gender dimension of ecosystem services is critical to contextualize the environment in people's lifeworlds and to make understandings of ecosystem services representative of, and instrumental to, people's voices and agendas. We show how such enriched, diverse, bottom-up ecosystem services perspectives form an essential foundation (together with ecological research) for resisting applications of reductionist top-down categories assumed to represent general local values.

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Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture

Porsani¹,

Börjeson²,

Lalander³

et al. 2020

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“…Although there was no analysis of their medical reports to confirm these figures, they are nonetheless indicative of the importance of providing safe accessible and affordable water to the population. Studies by Fonjong (2008) confirm that water crisis are deadly and have cost the lives of children in the North West Region of Cameroon.…”

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Challenges of Water Crisis on Women’s Socio-Economic Activities in the Buea Municipality, Cameroon

Fonjong¹,

Ngekwi²

2014

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Although water is a basic human right, it is also essential for achieving sustainable development and poverty alleviation. The economic cost of water crisis can be very severe for women in low income societies whose activities revolve around water, ranging from domestic to economic needs. This paper looks at the water situation of a rapidly growing town, Buea, in the SW Region of Cameroon, and how it poses a challenge to women's socioeconomic efforts. The results presented are based on analysis of field data collected from 177 water users and stakeholders of the study area through a stratified random sampling technique and analyzed with the help of SPSS and Epi softwares. Findings reveal that the water crisis in Buea is human-induced and women are the most affected because their socioeconomic lives are highly dependent on water. While this situation directly affects the quality/quantity of water, and the amount of time women spend on water collection, it also has far-reaching implications on the socioeconomic welfare of the municipality.

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“…There are several relevant gender research and practice works on natural resources use and management, as well as on sustainability [5,10,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. Nonetheless, fewer initiatives focus on the waste management field, and among the existing ones, the availability of information is dated and limited [5,10,11,16,18,[27][28][29][30][31].…”

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Gender Mainstreaming in Waste Education Programs: A Conceptual Framework

Muchangos

Vaughter

2019

Urban Science

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Gender issues are present in waste management, from daily handling activities through to decision-making processes. In waste education programs, the disregard for views of and contribution by women has resulted in strategies that do not comprehensively address the waste issue, preventing long-standing and sustainable outcomes, while increasing existing gender inequities. Three critical waste matters on education and gender were identified: (1) lack of meaningful involvement and participation of women (and other vulnerable groups) throughout the decision-making processes; (2) lack of inclusion of gender-specific designs and gender-sensitive approaches in the information and education materials; and (3) tendency to devise strategies directed to women only, while exempting the other stakeholders from their responsibilities. This paper presents a closer look into the relationship between waste education and gender, with a proposal of a participatory framework for gender mainstreaming in waste education programs. It includes components to assess the promoting entity of the waste education program and all stages of the program. The framework represents a novel theory and practice contribution for waste education development, to support academics, practitioners, and policymakers, in the quest of achieving equitable and sustainable waste management systems for all.

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Gender Roles and practices in natural resource management in the North West Province of Cameroon

Cited by 39 publications

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Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture

Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture

Challenges of Water Crisis on Women’s Socio-Economic Activities in the Buea Municipality, Cameroon

Gender Mainstreaming in Waste Education Programs: A Conceptual Framework

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