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1 Lawless, S.; Cohen, P. J.; Mangubhai, S.; Kleiber, D.; Morrison, T. H. 2021. Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries. World Development, 140:105348. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105348]
Gender equality ; Small-scale fisheries ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Goal 5 Gender equality ; Gender equity ; Women ; Strategies ; Environmental management ; Governance ; Policies ; Livelihoods ; Communities ; Nongovernmental organizations / Pacific Islands / Fiji / Solomon Islands / Vanuatu
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050221)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X20304769/pdfft?md5=14344cbecec1db5a72e7f6356159a53e&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X20304769-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050221.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050221.pdf
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Gender equality is a mainstream principle of good environmental governance and sustainable development. Progress toward gender equality in the fisheries sector is critical for effective and equitable development outcomes in coastal countries. However, while commitments to gender equality have surged at global, regional and national levels, little is known about how this principle is constructed, and implemented across different geographies and contexts. Consequently, progress toward gender equality is difficult to assess and navigate. To identify influential policy instruments (n = 76), we conducted key-informant interviews with governance actors engaged in small-scale fisheries (n = 26) and gender and development (n = 9) sectors across the Pacific Islands region. We systematically analysed these instruments according to (1) representations of gender and gender equality, (2) rationales for pursing gender, and (3) gender strategies and actions. We found that fisheries policy instruments frequently narrowed the concept of gender to a focus on women, whereas gender and development policy instruments considered gender as diverse social identities, norms and relations. In fisheries policy instruments, rationales for pursuing gender equality diverged substantially yet, overall the principle was predominantly pursued for instrumental (i.e., improved environmental outcomes) rather than intrinsic (i.e., an inherent value in fairness) reasons. Over two-thirds of gender equality strategies focused on an organization’s own human resourcing and project assessments, rather than on direct action within communities, or for women and men reliant on fisheries. Our findings illustrate gender equality commitments and investments to be narrow and outdated. Critical shifts in dominant gender equality narratives and objectives, and an embrace of multi-level strategies, provide opportunities for fisheries governance and development agendas to rise to current best practice, and ultimately make meaningful (opposed to rhetorical) progress toward gender equality. The methodological approach we develop holds value for other development sectors to critically examine, and subsequently enhance, commitment toward gender equality.
2 Lawless, S.; Cohen, P. J.; McDougall, C.; Mangubhai, S.; Song, A. M.; Morrison, T. H. 2022. Tinker, tailor or transform: gender equality amidst social-ecological change. Global Environmental Change, 72:102434. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102434]
Gender equality ; Social aspects ; Ecological factors ; Small-scale fisheries ; Environmental management ; Governance ; Sustainability ; Women ; Livelihoods ; Equity ; Policies / Pacific Islands / Vanuatu / Solomon Islands / Fiji
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050786)
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Global visions of environmental change consider gender equality to be a foundation of sustainable social-ecological systems. Similarly, social-ecological systems frameworks position gender equality as both a precursor to, and a product of, system sustainability. Yet, the degree to which gender equality is being advanced through social-ecological systems change is uncertain. We use the case of small-scale fisheries in the Pacific Islands region to explore the proposition that different social-ecological narratives: (1) ecological, (2) social-ecological, and (3) social, shape the gender equality priorities, intentions and impacts of implementing organizations. We conducted interviews with regional and national fisheries experts (n = 71) and analyzed gender commitments made within policies (n = 29) that influence small-scale fisheries. To explore these data, we developed a ‘Tinker-Tailor-Transform’ gender assessment typology. We find that implementing organizations aligned with the social-ecological and social narratives considered social (i.e., human-centric) goals to be equally or more important than ecological (i.e., eco-centric) goals. Yet in action, gender equality was pursued instrumentally to achieve ecological goals and/or shallow project performance targets. These results highlight that although commitments to gender equality were common, when operationalized commitments become diluted and reoriented. Across all three narratives, organizations mostly ‘Tinkered’ with gender equality in impact, for example, including more women in spaces that otherwise tended to be dominated by men. Impacts predominately focused on the individual (i.e., changing women) rather than driving communal-to-societal level change. We discuss three interrelated opportunities for organizations in applying the ‘Tinker-Tailor-Transform’ assessment typology, including its utility to assist organizations to orient toward intrinsic goals; challenge or reconfigure system attributes that perpetuate gender inequalities; and consciously interrogate discursive positions and beliefs to unsettle habituated policies, initiatives and theories of change.
3 Mangubhai, S.; Lawless, S.; Cowley, A.; Mangubhai, J. P.; Williams, M. J. 2022. Progressing gender equality in fisheries by building strategic partnerships with development organisations. World Development, 158:105975. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105975]
Gender equality ; Fisheries ; Development organizations ; Gender mainstreaming ; Gender equity ; Inclusion ; Sustainable development ; Strategies ; Partnerships ; Non-governmental organizations ; Human rights ; Political attitudes ; Policies ; Empowerment ; Livelihoods ; Interdisciplinary research / Melanesia / Fiji / Solomon Islands / Vanuatu
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051265)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22001656/pdfft?md5=cb19265b59990fc5a9f8bb96230e2049&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X22001656-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051265.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051265.pdf
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Gender equality, a universal agreed principle and value, has been adopted widely but implemented to varying levels in different sectors. Our study was designed to contrast how gender development (hereafter 'development') and fisheries sectors view and invest in gender, and then explore opportunities to strengthen collaborative relationships and networks between the two, with the aim of improving capacity for gender inclusion in practice in fisheries. We conducted key informant interviews with fisheries (n = 68) and development (n = 32) practitioners (including managers) in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu between 2018 and 2019. We found three points of divergence between fisheries and development practitioners and/or their organisations when it comes to the inclusion of gender into their work: (1) fundamental differences in organisational motivations for working on gender – (i.e., fisheries organisations viewed gender equality as a means to achieve fisheries objectives (instrumental), while development organisations viewed it as a core value or principle (inherent); (2) fisheries practitioners had comparatively little to no access to qualified gender focal points and training, and limited networks with gender experts; and (3) differences in what each considered successful versus failed approaches to gender integration. Our findings illustrate opportunities, as well as limitations or challenges (e.g. resistance and indifference), to transfer knowledge and capacity to integrate gender into fisheries policies and practice. We suggest using these divergences to ‘pivot change’ in the fisheries sector by building on decades of knowledge, learning and experience from the development sector focusing on four areas for strategic partnership: (1) shifting values; (2) gender mainstreaming; (3) adopting gender best practice; and (4) investing in gender networks and coalitions. We argue that fundamental to the success of such a partnership will be the ability and willingness of fisheries and development practitioners and their organisations to break down silos and work collaboratively towards gender equality in the fisheries sector.
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