Project Head:
Doris Hayn
Project Team:
Doris Hayn
Gudrun Seltmann (till Febr. 2005)
Cooperation:
Angela Fuhrmann, Konzeptentwicklung–Prozessbegleitung–Moderation (Büro
für Nahverkehr)
Funding:
Ministerium für Umwelt
und Naturschutz, Landwirtschaft
und Verbraucherschutz des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen MUNLV
Duration:
2004/04 - 2005/08
Field of research
Research Area:
Everyday Life Ecology, Energy, Consumption
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The strategy of gender mainstreaming (GM) has been implemented by the
administration of the federal states as an integrated guiding principle to
be applied in federal state politics and administration, and concrete
implementation measures have been initiated. This endeavor has been
pursued by the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia since November of
2002. The Ministry for Environment and Nature Protection, Agriculture and
Consumer Protection (MUNLV) formed the "Task force gender
mainstreaming within the MUNLV" and commissioned the Institute for
Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) with the pilot project "Introduction of
Gender Mainstreaming in the National Park Eifel (in particular education
and public relations)". ISOE contributed to the project with its long
standing experience in monitoring and consulting the
implementation of gender mainstreaming into environmental politics as
well as with its approved expertise in the field of
gender mainstreaming in nature protection.
It was the objective of the project to not only counsel the "Task force
gender mainstreaming within the MUNLV" in their efforts to implement
gender mainstreaming within the Ministry, but also to scientifically
monitor and counsel the forestry office of the National Park Eifel during
the implementation process of gender mainstreaming. The central aim of the
introduction of gender mainstreaming in the National Park Eifel, which was
established on January 1, 2004, was to compile a conceptual basis for the
sub-fields education, public relations and social-scientific research. The
long-term objective for this concept was to support a gender-sensitive
organization of the activities and the public appearance of the National
Park. For this purpose ISOE developed and tested adequate instruments,
which enable the employees of the National Park to permanently
incorporate gender aspects into their activities. In addition to
developing "Guidelines to a Gender-Sensitive Design for Public Relations"
and "Conceptual Milestones for Gender Equity in Education", guidelines for
the consideration of gender related questions were also devised for the
area of social-scientific research.
The combination of various types of knowledge were of crucial importance
to the development of these instruments. The scientists therefore
recorded and analyzed pre-existing work and experience of the National Park
employees. Literature research concerning, for instance, different
perceptions of "nature" among women and men and their dissimilar interests
in experiencing and appropriating nature rounded off this part of the
project. Furthermore, the ISOE’s scientists scrutinized concepts and
experiences from various German National Parks in order to collect and
edit scattered knowledge, which had not yet been put into writing, and
which had been gained over many years by experts working in this field.
The overall objective of the project was to identify the concepts and
images of nature and of gender constructions that should form the basis
for public relations and educational offers. An experts’ colloquium concluded the pilot project in order to communicate the compiled results to
a broad community of specialists.
Supported by the ISOE, the "Task force gender mainstreaming within the
MUNLV" revised the instruments developed for the National Park with
regard to their transferability for the long-term application in other
fields of activity within the Ministry. In addition, ISOE counseled the
individual ministerial departments in the implementation of guiding
projects. These guiding projects have been the first steps towards an
implementation of gender mainstreaming within the respective fields of
activity in the departments. For that purpose, proven gender mainstreaming
instruments such as the Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) developed by ISOE
were applied. Apart from that, the counseling of the task force also included activities regarding the communication of this subject as
well as the institutional and organizational establishment of gender
mainstreaming within the MUNLV.
Literature:
Hayn, Doris in collaboration with Seltmann, Gudrun und Guttmann, Julia
(2005):The Pilot Project "Gender Mainstreaming in the National Park Eifel"
– the Development of Implementation Instruments Report in the context of
the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the Ministry for Environment
and Nature Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (MUNLV) of
North Rhine-Westphalia
Summary/Draft,
(pdf-file, 196 kb)
Hayn, Doris (2006): Gender mainstreaming in National Parc Eifel,
Germany. In: Food and agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO)
(Hg.), Time for action. Changing the gender situation in forestry. Rome,
130-134 Download
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