Key messages
- Despite the promising benefits that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and foster conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+) offers through incentives to conserve forests and/or change behavior, it also risks excluding women, exacerbating gender inequalities and restricting women's access to decision-making and benefit-distribution processes.
- Efforts to mainstream gender in REDD+ in Indonesia are underway. But these remain scattered, fragmented and concentrated at the national level. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) with support from the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (MWECP) have a pivotal role to play in providing a clear and accessible platform for streamlining these initiatives, and building on synergies with ongoing efforts in other sectors.
- Lessons from CIFOR's assessment of existing efforts to mainstream gender in REDD+ and review of broader research on gender and forests, point to the importance of focusing on both national and subnational levels. A balance must be made between promoting gender equality at all levels whilst designing and implementing measures that are flexible and reflect local-level realities.
- Recommendations for promoting gender equality in REDD+ include: mainstreaming gender across REDD+ agencies; fostering gender equitable participation in free prior and informed consent; and developing gender-inclusive action plans that are evidence based and developed in consultation with key stakeholders.
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- DFID Know-for 2: Gender Integration and Gender-Responsive Research
- Learning from REDD+ - An Enhanced Global Comparative Analysis
- Opportunities and Challenges to Developing REDD+ Benefit Sharing Mechanisms in Developing Countries
- From Climate Research to Action under Multilevel Governance: Building Knowledge and Capacity at Landscape Scale (MLG)
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
- European Commission (EC)
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety – Germany (BMU)
Publisher
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Publication year
2017
Authors
Arwida, S.D.; Maharani, C.; Sijapati Basnett, B.; Yang, A.L.
Geographic
Indonesia
Topic
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Indonesia
Christopher Martius
Bonn Hub Leader and Managing Director of CIFOR Germany