Enhancing women’s rights and lives through gender-equitable restoration in Burkina Faso

Gender differences and gender inequalities in rights, status and responsibilities significantly shape daily rural life and life cycles in rural West Africa (Levasseur 2003), where women face significant constraints in participating in activities aimed at restoring forests and farmland. Yet, they als...

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Autores principales: Tiendrébéogo, Safiétou, Ouédraogo, Adidjata, Kabore, Ramané, Zougouri, Sita, Elias, Marlène, Traoré, Alain Touta, Vinceti, Barbara, Traoré, Daouda, Yago-Ouattara, Emma Lucie
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Tropenbos International 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110464
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author Tiendrébéogo, Safiétou
Ouédraogo, Adidjata
Kabore, Ramané
Zougouri, Sita
Elias, Marlène
Traoré, Alain Touta
Vinceti, Barbara
Traoré, Daouda
Yago-Ouattara, Emma Lucie
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Kabore, Ramané
Ouédraogo, Adidjata
Tiendrébéogo, Safiétou
Traoré, Alain Touta
Traoré, Daouda
Vinceti, Barbara
Yago-Ouattara, Emma Lucie
Zougouri, Sita
author_facet Tiendrébéogo, Safiétou
Ouédraogo, Adidjata
Kabore, Ramané
Zougouri, Sita
Elias, Marlène
Traoré, Alain Touta
Vinceti, Barbara
Traoré, Daouda
Yago-Ouattara, Emma Lucie
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description Gender differences and gender inequalities in rights, status and responsibilities significantly shape daily rural life and life cycles in rural West Africa (Levasseur 2003), where women face significant constraints in participating in activities aimed at restoring forests and farmland. Yet, they also find innovative ways to overcome such constraints, such as collective action and the creation of groups of mutual support. In Burkina Faso, rural women are mobilizing such groups to improve their living conditions through sustainable resource management, and many NGOs, projects and associations are supporting them in these endeavours. By organizing themselves into collectives that can be targeted by development institutions, women improve their access to technical, financial and material support and training, build their capacities, and acquire new knowledge and resources to actively participate in land restoration. In Burkina Faso and elsewhere in West Africa, women’s limited access to and control over land severely hinders their ability to engage in restoration activities. This article specifically addresses three questions: What motivates women to invest time and effort involvement in the restoration of land and forests? What obstacles do women face in implementing land and forest restoration activities? How do restoration activities affect the living conditions of women?
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spelling CGSpace1104642025-11-11T18:50:59Z Enhancing women’s rights and lives through gender-equitable restoration in Burkina Faso Tiendrébéogo, Safiétou Ouédraogo, Adidjata Kabore, Ramané Zougouri, Sita Elias, Marlène Traoré, Alain Touta Vinceti, Barbara Traoré, Daouda Yago-Ouattara, Emma Lucie gender women's empowerment forests land restoration género potenciación de la mujer bosques Gender differences and gender inequalities in rights, status and responsibilities significantly shape daily rural life and life cycles in rural West Africa (Levasseur 2003), where women face significant constraints in participating in activities aimed at restoring forests and farmland. Yet, they also find innovative ways to overcome such constraints, such as collective action and the creation of groups of mutual support. In Burkina Faso, rural women are mobilizing such groups to improve their living conditions through sustainable resource management, and many NGOs, projects and associations are supporting them in these endeavours. By organizing themselves into collectives that can be targeted by development institutions, women improve their access to technical, financial and material support and training, build their capacities, and acquire new knowledge and resources to actively participate in land restoration. In Burkina Faso and elsewhere in West Africa, women’s limited access to and control over land severely hinders their ability to engage in restoration activities. This article specifically addresses three questions: What motivates women to invest time and effort involvement in the restoration of land and forests? What obstacles do women face in implementing land and forest restoration activities? How do restoration activities affect the living conditions of women? 2020-12 2020-12-11T09:59:44Z 2020-12-11T09:59:44Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110464 en Open Access application/pdf Tropenbos International Tiendrébéogo, S.; Ouedraogo, A.; Kabore, R.; Zougouri, S.; Elias, M.; Traore, A.T.; Vinceti, B.; Traore, D.; Yago-Ouattara, E.L. (2020) Enhancing women’s rights and lives through gender-equitable restoration in Burkina Faso. ETFRN NEWS 60: Restoring African Drylands 8 p. ISSN: 1876-5866
spellingShingle gender
women's empowerment
forests
land restoration
género
potenciación de la mujer
bosques
Tiendrébéogo, Safiétou
Ouédraogo, Adidjata
Kabore, Ramané
Zougouri, Sita
Elias, Marlène
Traoré, Alain Touta
Vinceti, Barbara
Traoré, Daouda
Yago-Ouattara, Emma Lucie
Enhancing women’s rights and lives through gender-equitable restoration in Burkina Faso
title Enhancing women’s rights and lives through gender-equitable restoration in Burkina Faso
title_full Enhancing women’s rights and lives through gender-equitable restoration in Burkina Faso
title_fullStr Enhancing women’s rights and lives through gender-equitable restoration in Burkina Faso
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing women’s rights and lives through gender-equitable restoration in Burkina Faso
title_short Enhancing women’s rights and lives through gender-equitable restoration in Burkina Faso
title_sort enhancing women s rights and lives through gender equitable restoration in burkina faso
topic gender
women's empowerment
forests
land restoration
género
potenciación de la mujer
bosques
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110464
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