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Community members should co-operate, exchange experiences on NRM with each
other, and participate actively in the community activities and training
The main direct result of this study so far has been the revision and updating of grasslands
co-management agreements between communities and local governors. These agreements
now reflect community women’s ideas and perceptions. They also recognize the need to
fully involve women in (future) stakeholder meetings.
6. Outcomes of the research
In
sum
mary:
•
Interests and perceptions of social groups of herding communities, as women, men are
different by the ecological zones, cultures and local traditions, as well as the capacity and
diversity of pasture land and natural resources.
•
Women in all study sites have great roles in educating children, production of milk and
dairy, and processing of the animal raw products and this stereotype is traditionally
considered as the women’s duties in the herders’ family. The unpaid, unvalued jobs for
women have been increased after the herd privatization and more than 70 percent of work
in herder’s family belongs to the woman. But most of these work unvalued and
underestimated. So inclusion of these responsibilities to CM agreements can strengthen
communities by more active involvement of women.
•
Traditionally women have less right in participating in the
community
meetings or
collective decision-making. Therefore inclusion of their interest in the CM agreements
makes NRM arrangements more sustainable. The request of Women group of communities
to include new articles that reflected the women’s roles and responsibilities in NRM is
positively accepted by men community members and all stakeholders.
•
Most of the women support CM activities and their aspirations were usually connected
to improving their livelihoods and protection and restoration of pasture and other natural
resources.
•
In the herders community women are active in the implementation of CM agreements,
as they are creative and initiative to the income generation and other activities.
•
Establishment of Women groups increases possibility to participate in the decision-
making of NRM for women. It also organizes different activities to support women’s
household income generation activities.
•
CM agreements between herder and community, and between community and local
governors, were revised and updated by reflecting women’s ideas and perceptions, which
before left out of the consideration, which was main output of this study.
Outcomes of the research so far are:
•
Establishment of the co-management system at
sum
level: currently 9 communities are
established in 3 ecosystems
•
Women groups are established and organizing various activities to support women, to
improve their participation in co-management
Women’s participation in co-management increased as the co-management agreements
are revised and updated by involving women’s ideas and including incentives to
support women’s participation
Communities are more focused on capacity building of women through various training
and exchange of experiences with other communities
Women groups started to pay more attention to natural resource management as they
are carrying out various activities to protect and restore natural resources as designing
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