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Customary marine tenure in the South Pacific : the uses and challenges of mapping.

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Authors: 
Townsley, Philip
Anderson, James
Mees, Chris
1997

Abstract

This article reports on research carried out to examine the impact of customary tenure systems on marine management and to determine the appropriateness of incorporating such systems into more formal systems of fisheries management. The article critically examines the use of mapping exercises during the research and argues that while the mapping stimulated discussion of the research issue it actually constituted an intervention in the situation being researched. The paper highlights the risk of outsiders influencing the outcome of a participatory analysis, such that decisions reached by local people are more directed at outsiders and their assumed objectives than their own priorities.

Emerging Practice for the Engagement of Men and Boys in WASH

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Authors: 
Godfrey Bongomin et al.
2022

Abstract

This document accompanies Frontiers of Sanitation: Engaging men for gender transformative WASH, Part 2, which explores the extent to which engaging men and boys in WASH processes is leading to transformative change in gender roles, attitudes, and sustainable change in reducing gender inequalities across households, communities, organisations, and policy.

Practical examples are presented here from:

  • Timor-Leste
  • Papua New Guinea (PNG)
  • Solomon Islands
  • Bangladesh
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Vanuatu
  • Nepal

Each of these examples, all of which are from projects funded by the Australian Government’s Water for Women Fund, describe interventions that employed different gender-transformative approaches to engage with and reach men and boys. They also describe the projects’ successes and challenges.