Gender, deliberation, and natural resource governance: Experimental evidence from Malawi

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Californiaen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Malawien
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationOhio State Universityen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.donorBalzan Foundationen
cg.contributor.initiativeGender Equality
cg.coverage.countryMalawi
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MW
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierKatrina Kosec: 0000-0002-5126-5215
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137083en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Systems Transformation - Food and Nutrition Policy
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number2232en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
dc.contributor.authorClayton, Amandaen
dc.contributor.authorDulani, Bonifaceen
dc.contributor.authorKosec, Katrinaen
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Amanda Leaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-08T23:34:00Zen
dc.date.available2024-01-08T23:34:00Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/137365
dc.titleGender, deliberation, and natural resource governance: Experimental evidence from Malawien
dcterms.abstractInitiatives to combat climate change often strive to include women’s voices, but there is limited evidence on how this feature influences program design or its benefits for women. We examine the causal effect of women’s representation in climate-related deliberations using the case of community-managed forests in rural Malawi. We run a lab-in-the-field experiment that randomly varies the gender composition of six-member groups asked to privately vote, deliberate, then privately vote again on their preferred policy to combat local over-harvesting. We find that any given woman has relatively more influence in group deliberations when women make up a larger share of the group. This result cannot be explained by changes in participants’ talk time. Rather, women’s presence changes the content of deliberations towards topics on which women tend to have greater expertise. Our work suggests that including women in decision-making can shift deliberative processes in ways that amplify women’s voices.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.available2023
dcterms.bibliographicCitationClayton, Amanda; Dulani, Boniface; Kosec, Katrina; and Robinson, Amanda Lea. 2023. Gender, deliberation, and natural resource governance: Experimental evidence from Malawi. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2232. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137365en
dcterms.extent104 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2023-12-31
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseOther
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/136932en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/126903en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/137083en
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectnatural resources managementen
dcterms.subjectnatural resourcesen
dcterms.subjectgovernanceen
dcterms.subjectwomen's empowermenten
dcterms.subjectcommunity forestryen
dcterms.subjectdecision makingen
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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