A gender-responsive approach to natural resources

Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in environmental natural resource management (NRM) creates sustainable benefits for households and communities while advancing human and environmental health and wellbeing outcomes. However, many of the previous approaches to environment and NRM have not strongly considered gender. World Vision has begun to adopt a more responsive approach to address barriers to access, decision-making, and meaningful participation that exist due to gender-based social norms.