Linking Gender Based Violence, Gendered Forest Governance, and Forest Outcomes

This project will explore the connection between different levels of women’s participation in forest governance and forest outcomes. Gender-based violence emerges as a means by which households and communities discipline women and therefore shape their participation in forest governance, producing different levels of participation. A small number (2-3) case study communities in will be selected based on differences in the level of women’s participation in forest governance. Using remotely sensed forest cover data and Humanitarian Response Development Lab (HURDL) Livelihoods as Intimate Government (LIG) ethnographic approaches, an understanding of the connection, if any, between these differing degrees of women’s participation and differences in forest outcomes will be developed. Results from this work will support calls for future work on changing/improving women’s participation in forest governance.