Gender and Population Division FAO Sustainable Development
Department Part 1 of 2 This paper is based on the work of a
consultant, Ms Asa Torkelsson, prepared with the assistance of
Yianna Lambrou and John Curry (FAO, Gender and Population
Division). Editorial support from Barbara Hall, Tony Beck and
Charles Stokes (Consultants) is gratefully acknowledged. In
spite of the many recent UN system-wide commitments and mandates
to evaluate progress made in gender mainstreaming, an assessment
of the current status of socio-economic and gender-sensitive
(GSI) indicators in the management of natural resources revealed
an almost complete lack of practical experience in this area.
Not surprisingly there was a disappointingly low level of
gender-sensitive monitoring of natural resource management
projects. To fill these knowledge gaps, this paper develops GSI
indicators through the identification of GSI factors that put
differential pressure on the management and use of natural
resources. A core set of GSI indicators wa