Combining two transversal themes: Environment and Gender

- Why adopt a gender approach in sustainable land management
  activities?

- Isn’t promotion of gender balance just another trendy addition to the
  many tasks already being undertaken in rural development projects?

- Isn’t it enough to have small-scale projects for women?

- Do technical land management measures really influence gender
  inequality?

Tackling Gender Issues in Sustainable Land Management (pdf, 2MB) addresses these questions and is designed to help programme managers, project staff and consultants solve the problems involved. It is a modular instrument for use in rural development projects with a focus on sustainable land management (SLM), offering practical entry points for mainstreaming gender and environmental issues. The instrument is inscribed within CDE’s overall concept of sustainable development, taking into account that people’s development potential depends on several social factors, in particular gender.

CDE acknowledges that women and men often have conflicting interests. It supports gender and development (GAD) approaches that are based on the principle of social learning and that actively integrate both women and men at all stages of development activities. It offers various services on demand, ranging from short-term input on gender and environment issues in development cooperation, mid- and long-term inputs to secure sound integration of these issues from the planning to the monitoring phase, and support for training.