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Vietnam promotes gender equality in forest protection

A symposium on gender and forestry issues took place on April 23 in Hanoi to discuss ways to promote gender equality in forest protection.
A symposium on gender and forestry issues took place on April 23 inHanoi to discuss ways to promote gender equality in forest protection.

The event was jointly held by the Centre for People andForests known as RECOFTC and the REDD+ National Action Programme, aspart of a project on enhancing capacity for forestry-related parties atgrassroots level in reducing emissions from deforestation and forestdegradation ( REDD).


According to Deputy Director of theGeneral Department of Forestry Nguyen Ba Ngai, the event providedopportunities for domestic and foreign experts to unearth challenges andshortcomings in the integration of gender issues in forest protectionand adaptation to climate change.
 
For his part, ProgrammeCoordinator at RECOFTC Chandra Silori said the gender issue plays animportant role in forest protection and climate change.

Women are more sensitive to impacts from climate change, the coordinatorsaid, adding that women make up 70 percent of the 1.6 billion poorpeople all over the world earning their living from forests.

Silori added that there are differences between men and women in theirawareness of and how they exploit forests, which should be taken intoaccount when designing policies and projects to ensure the success ofREDD + .

During the workshop, participantsillustrated the difficulties and challenges in realising gender equalityin forest management and discussed measures to cope with thechallenges.-VNA
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