Did you know that every conservation field project carries within it an opportunity to increase gender equity while benefiting nature?

Gender mainstreaming is a process and strategy that integrates the perspectives and needs of men and women in the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and projects. It's extremely important for conservation practitioners to know and use.

Planet Women teaches an eight-week, online course in gender mainstreaming through our Center for Gender, Equity & the Environment (CGEE) in Africa. During the course, women and men learn how to effectively apply a gender lens to all aspects of forest and landscape restoration projects—from design to implementation to monitoring and evaluation. By the end, participants produce a Gender Analysis and Action Plan and solicit input from the CGEE team. Each participant receives a certificate upon successful completion of the full program.

As of December 2024, 115 women and men are attending or have completed the course. Currently, the 4^th cohort is in progress with 30 attendees.

One graduate, Julia, shared her certificate with her network on LinkedIn, along with this message:

"Today I am happy to receive my certificate on gender mainstreaming after 8 weeks of intensive learning by Planet Women through the Centre for Gender, Equity, and Environment.​ I am now a better leader, and I will engage with project players based on their knowledge, skills, experience, needs…and not based on whether they were born a boy of a girl or what my religion or culture dictates on matters male and female.​ Gender issues are not women issues but about the group that is marginalized for whatever reason."​

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