Presented by Monica Tanuhandaru of the Partnership for Governance Reform at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit, on 23–25 April 2018 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1. The Partnership for Governance Reform
Social Forestry & Roles of Women:
Experience from Indonesia
Monica Tanuhandaru
Executive Director
APRS, Yogyakarta 22-25 April 2018
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2. The Partnership for Governance Reform
Is Social Forestry Addressing Inequality?
• Total forest area: 124 million hectares
• Annual deforestation rate: 684,000
hectares (2010-2015), and 80 million
hectares (64.5 percent) is degraded
(2016)
• Forest conversion is allocated mostly
for concessions (97 vs. 3 percent)
• In 31k villages, or half of total villages, 71% are forest dependent
• 12 mil live in and around forest: 66 % are poor (MoEF, 2015)
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3. The Partnership for Governance Reform
Strong multi stakeholder partnership
is key to successful Social Forestry
Partnership with groups and communities underpins Kemitraan’s Social
Forestry work in 16 provinces, covering 843,099 hectares
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4. The Partnership for Governance Reform
What roles women play in Social Forestry?
Women have intimate and close
relations with land, and natural
resources.
Women take part in natural resources
management: in agroforestry, in post
harvesting, in enterprises management and
in most of times as reference for local
wisdom.
However, women may not be fully
involved or may not have capacity to be
fully involved in decision making
processes.
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5. The Partnership for Governance Reform
What are the gaps preventing women’s
full participation?
• Time. Women are expected to
play triple roles: reproductive,
economic production, and
community roles!
• Cultural barriers & social
relations. Established social
relations & structure within
cultural value and accepted
norms limit women from
assuming public roles.
• Capacity and
experience/opportunities.
Women have little
experience/opportunities and
capacity in decision making.
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6. The Partnership for Governance Reform
How to Ensure Women Contribute to
and Benefit from Social Forestry?
Gender perspective (critical awareness on gender
rights & justice) needs to be present or performed as
pre-condition in community assistance/ facilitation
Women should be regarded as handler and equal
co handler in social forestry land management
Championing women and marginalized groups at
the village level is important
Involvement of women and girls in farmers groups and
regeneration needs to take place
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7. The Partnership for Governance Reform
Learning from Kemitraan’s experience
• It is important to understand the different roles of men and
women, and their relationships to land and nature.
• Building awareness on gender-based injustice issues through
critical education among men and women is critical to generate
agency in bringing social change
• Institutional agency/capacity to facilitate or accommodate
women’s roles and needs in SF cycle (i.e. access, land
management, post-harvesting) should be in place
• Establishing trust and relationship should precede any capacity
building interventions.
• Investing in the future is equally critical to investing in the
present.
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8. The Partnership for Governance Reform
Who we are
Partners with CSOs and government
agencies at the national and local levels
Is a grant making institution and a
leading implementing agency
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Advancing reform lies at the core of
Kemitraan’s mission
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9. The Partnership for Governance Reform
Thank You
Visit us at www.kemitraan.or.id
@kemitraan_pgr
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