The Business Case for Mainstreaming Gender in REDD+

This new publication by the UN-REDD Programme, entitled "The Business Case for Mainstreaming Gender in REDD+", sets out to demonstrate how integrating gender considerations in REDD+ planning makes good business sense.  The "Business Case" examines why integrating gender considerations may increase efficiency, efficacy and sustainability, and proposes initial recommendations on how to do so. The report also examines what gender equality and equity mean and entail for stakeholder engagement, land and resources tenure, multiple benefits of forests, benefit distribution systems, anti corruption efforts and inclusive growth and development.

The report highlights brief case studies showing, for example in India, how women's participation has positively affected forest regeneration and the control of illicit grazing and felling; and how women's engagement as decision-makers in executive committees, as is shown in an example in Nepal, can lead to increase in forest carbon stock, increased sequestration of carbon dioxide, as well as increase community income.  Giving considerations to gender equality in REDD+, the report concludes, makes good business sense.