Women and resource management in the rural North

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Women and resource management in the rural North

• Lindis Sloan Project Manager
• The Northern Feminist University

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Background

• Taking Wing, Finland, August 2002
• to establish a project to analyse and document
  the involvement and role of women and indigenous
  peoples in natural resource management in the
  Arctic
• Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the NFU
• Womens Participation in Decision-Making
  Processes in Artic Fisheries Resource Management
  to 2004

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Participants in this project

• Norway (lead country)
• Sweden
• Iceland
• Greenland
• Canada
• Still open

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Objectives

• To describe, systematise and compare the roles of
  women in natural resource management in Arctic
  areas, with particular attention to
  decision-making positions.
• To develop tools and strategies that can be used
  to promote participatory values and practices.
• To promote international cooperation on gender
  equality in natural resource management.

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Deliverables

• Report to the ministers, autumn 2006
• Workshop reports/papers
• Individual reports

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Funding

• Norway
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nordland County and
  Nordic Council of Ministers
• basic funding for 2005
• Canada, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland
• applications under consideration

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Proposed Dates

• November 26th 29th
• Workshop, Norway
• January 2006
• Fieldworks
• May 2006
• 2nd Workshop
• September 1st 2006
• Report finished

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Thank you!