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What Happens When Women Do Reach Policy Spaces?
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Women enhance policy outcomes – when they are allowed to participate.
Women’s communal plots are now formally documented; this is influencing how local authorities regulate land access.
Dialogue around Agdal traditional management as well as on non-timber forest resources, is prompting exploration of how customary practices can complement national forest strategy.
Women leaders from Natur’ELLES are advocating in national fisheries dialogues; recommendations were submitted to the Ministry of Fisheries.
Tanzania
Women-led BMUs supported through ReSea are operationalizing national BMU Guidelines calling for at least 30% women’s representation – exceeding targets and influencing peer BMUs across the district.
Their results provide concrete evidence that gender-inclusive governance improves conservation compliance and climate resilience.
Guinea
Women are influencing the MBNP Development and Management Plan and shaping provisions for land access, gender equality and climate adaption.
Côte d’Ivoire
National extension service (ANADER) recognized and supported a woman leader’s agroforestry model, showing how local success can move upward.
