EFI provided training to small-scale wood processing enterprises in Attapeu, Lao PDR on how to upcycle wood waste into useful products, to increase incomes and reduce environmental impacts. Women in the industry were also given gender awareness and leadership training.
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On this year’s Women’s Day, the Forest Smallholders Project is highlighting the importance of gender equality in the small-scale forest sector. Gender equality is a crucial factor in creating a sustainable and equal future.
Through the Forest Smallholders Project, which is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), we analyse the challenges faced by women and identify ways to pursue gender equality in the sector.
Rujinaree Ar-lai shows her wood lamp product made from wood waste. Source: Konwilai Wongyoth
To support this effort, we have released three products that outline the challenges and provide recommendations:
Through the Forest Smallholders Project, we will continue to build the capacities of local stakeholders through customised coaching, training, and strengthening access to markets and networks. And we remain committed to raise awareness about gender and women’s economic empowerment among micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the forest sector.
Gender analysis of two villages in Viet Nam that produce furniture and other timber products. The analysis is aimed to micro- and small-scale wood processors to identify opportunities for gender-related activities.
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A training organised by the Forest Smallholders Project of the European Forest Facility (EFI) in a small village of the Lampang Province north of Thailand has provided women with the skills they need to engage in family timber businesses and play more diverse roles, thereby contributing to more sustainable livelihoods.
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Gender equality and women’s economic empowerment are important aspects of our work supporting wood-based micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the Mekong region. Women play significant roles and contribute to the sustainable management of forests and forest-related businesses at the household and community level. However, women often do not benefit equally and their participation in decision-making processes has been restricted.
Husband and wife displaying their products at a trade fair, Lao PDR. Source: Khamphoui Saythala
Challenges faced by women are multi-layered. The heavy physical workload in forest plantations and timber processing, in conjunction with social gender norms, confine them to reproductive and unpaid domestic work. Enhancing women’s capacity and participation in economic activities in the forest sector can boost rural livelihoods, increase their inclusion in sustainable forest resource use, and reduce deforestation and forest degradation.
We have published a briefing to analyse the challenges women are facing and to identify how gender equality in the small-scale forest sector can be pursued.
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