BackgroundThe FAO Forestry Division is dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. Women are critical to ensuring the future sustainability of forests and forestry. Their equal contributions in forest activities are urgently needed as increasingly urbanized societies are losing recognition of the multiple functions of forests and their importance for livelihoods and development. Read more New FAO Forestry publication: "How to mainstream gender in forestry: a practical field guide"To assist technical officers in their work, FAO has published a new practical field guide with concrete examples of how to incorporate gender issues in forestry projects and programmes. The tangible guide offers practical steps that forestry officers can take to assess the gender aspects of their work and form and integrate key gender-responsive actions. Find the publication here. Outcomes of the COFO 23/WFW Gender and forestry side event: bridging research and practiceIncrease the number of women in decision-making roles, their inclusion in the value chain and facilitate their access to markets. These are some of the key messages of a WFW5 side event that looked at how to take gender-sensitive actions in forestry to the next level. For gender policies to succeed, men’s understanding of and capacity to engage with gender-related issues is crucial. Presenting men with evidence of the added value to society and to a nation’s development of, for example, granting tenure rights to women is a powerful means of fostering new and equitable gender dynamics. Traditionally, women have always been key to many forest-related activities, but their roles most now grow beyond participatory to being represented in greater numbers and at higher levels in decision and policymaking. COFO 23 daily highlights New 2030 SDGs focus on gender issues!On 25 September, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was agreed at UN Headquarters in New York. The Agenda includes 17 proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets, with SDG5 working to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.” Thanks to its cooperation with IFPRI-PIM, FAO is already making data available through the Gender and Land Rights Database (GRLD) to contribute to monitoring and implementation of SDG5, and will continue its efforts to mainstream gender in forestry projects and programmes as it works to achieve SDG15, which focuses on land and forests. Learn more FAO Forestry Initiatives on Gender
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