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Gender, Collective Action, Property Rights and NRM

Gender, Collective Action, Property Rights and NRM. Outline. Gender defined Why gender analysis matters Some sources of gender inequalities How to pay greater attention to gender issues Collective action and gender Property rights and gender. Gender. Social roles

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Gender, Collective Action, Property Rights and NRM

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  1. Gender, Collective Action, Property Rights and NRM

  2. Outline • Gender defined • Why gender analysis matters • Some sources of gender inequalities • How to pay greater attention to gender issues • Collective action and gender • Property rights and gender

  3. Gender • Social roles • Different responsibilities • Some sources of gender roles • Institutional arrangements • Formal legal • Socio cultural attitudes • Religion

  4. Importance of GA for Collective Action • Roles shape access, use, control • Sustainable NRM often community based • Different roles/uses, different knowledge • Women invisible, yet key users • Increase womens empowerment--children

  5. How? • Ask questions about mens’ and womens’ • About differential access • About differential extraction • Subsistence vs income—who controls? • Who participates in resource decisions? How? • Household, Community, National

  6. Other issues • Gendered division of labor • Disaggregate the household • Household heads

  7. GA of Property Rights • Women’s bundles of rights smaller • Access, use, little/no control, participation • Better policies • Women’s needs and priorities • Empowerment

  8. Sources of gendered PR inequalities • Inheritance, transfers • Labor/investments in resource • Community membership/norms • Market • State • less access, less security

  9. Some consequences • Agriculture productivity • Complementary inputs • Access to other resources • Incentive to invest

  10. How to secure • Legal reforms • Collective action

  11. How? • What range of rights for men and women • To what? Interstitial spaces important • Are they secure? Why/why not? • How rights acquired • Changes in rights? implications?

  12. But… • Women heterogeneous • Other variables too

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