TITLE:
Gender Consideration in Sustainable Land Management Project Activities on the Highlands of Kilimanjaro Region: Lessons and Future Outlook
AUTHORS:
Wakuru Magigi, Allan Sathiel
KEYWORDS:
Gender, Sustainable Land Management (SLM), Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Soil Science,
Vol.4 No.5,
May
30,
2014
ABSTRACT: The paper contributes on understanding gender
considerations into Sustainable Land Management (SLM) project activities on the
Highlands of Kilimanjaro Region. Specifically, it documents gender profile and
assesses the project activities along with gender considerations, where
critical issues, risks and opportunities in relation to gender mainstreaming in
SLM project activities are highlighted. It evaluates also the capacity for
mainstreaming gender issues into the institutions involved in project
implementation. The study employed structured interview and consultative
meetings methods with key actors identified. A total of 500 respondents were
interviewed in the project catchment areas in the region. Data were analyzed
using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS). The paper winds up
by consolidating key strategic areas for intervention as future outlook and
lessons which manifests benchmarks for the Kilimanjaro region to adopt a more
programmatic approach to sustainable land management and elsewhere of the same
in other cities with the same context in Sub-Saharan Africa.