Additional File 2 Full-Text Review Results

Additional File 2 Full-text review results

This additional file details the documents included and excluded at the full-text level. In some cases a document may include multiple chapters, and for these documents, the exclusion statement relates to the most common reason the chapters were excluded.

Articles included

1. Acharya KP: Improving the Effectiveness of Collective Action: Sharing Experiences from Community Forestry.International Research Workshop on Gender and Collective Action, Thailand 2006.
2. Agarwal B: Gender and forest conservation: The impact of women's participation in community forest governance. Ecological Economics 2009, 68:2785-2799.
3. Agarwal B: Rule making in community forestry institutions: The difference women make. Ecological Economics 2009, 68:2296-2308.
4. Agarwal B: Chapter 5: From exclusion to enpowered engagement. In Gender and green governance: The political economy of women’s presence. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2010: 169-216.
5. Agarwal B: Chapter 7: Violations and penalties. In Gender and green governance: The political economy of women’s presence. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2010: 259-290.
6. Agarwal B: Chapter 9: Shortages admidst growing plenty. In Gender and green governance: The political economy of women’s presence. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2010: 323-352.
7. Agrawal A, Yadama G, Bhattacharya A: Decentralization and Environmental Conservation : Gender Effects from Participation in Joint Forest Management. In Book Decentralization and Environmental Conservation : Gender Effects from Participation in Joint Forest Management (Editor ed.^eds.). pp. 52-52. City; 2006:52-52.
8. Buchy M, Rai B: Chapter 7: Do women-only approaches to natural resource management help women? The case of community forestry in Nepal. InGender and natural resource management: Livelihoods, mobility and interventions 2008:127-149.
9. Clabots BM: Gender Dimensions of Community-Based Management of Marine Protected Areas in Siquijor, Philippines Barbara M. Clabots. University of Washington, 2013.
10. Coleman EA, Mwangi E: Women's participation in forest management: a cross-country analysis. Global Environmental Change 2013, 23:193-205.
11. Das N: Women's dependence on forest and participation in forestry: A case study of joint forest management programme in West Bengal. Journal of Forest Economics 2011, 17:67-89.
12. Das N: Impact of participatory forestry program on sustainable rural livelihoods: Lessons from an Indian province. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 2012:pps018.
13. Kabir GS, Yew TS, Noh KM, Hook LS: Assessing fishers' empowerment in inland openwater fisheries in Bangladesh. Ecological Economics 2011, 70:2114-2123.
14. McDougall C, Jiggins J, Pandit BH, Thapa Magar Rana SK, Leeuwis C: Does Adaptive Collaborative Forest Governance Affect Poverty? Participatory Action Research in Nepal's Community Forests. Society & Natural Resources 2013, 26:1235-1251.
15. Mehra D: Gender Equity in Forest Management: Case studies from Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra State. Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC) on ‘Sustaining Commons: Sustaining our Future’ 2011.
16. Sultana P, Thompson P: Gender and local floodplain management institutions: A case study from Bangladesh.Journal of International Development 2008, 20:53-68.
17. Westermann O, Ashby J, Pretty J: Gender and social capital: The importance of gender differences for the maturity and effectiveness of natural resource management groups. World Development 2005, 33:1783-1799.

Articles included at abstract level but found in an alternate source(included in excluded/included lists as well and hence not numbered here)

• Lama A, Buchy M: Gender, Class, Caste and Participation The Case of Community Forestry in Nepal. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 2002, 9:27-41.

No access to article. Found book chapter available online with almost identical title and the same authors but published a year after the paper (chapter is in Livelihood and Gender: Equity in Community Resource Management). Excluded.

• Leach M: Rainforest relations: Gender and resource use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone. Oxford University Press; 1994.

No access to book. Found 1992 publication by same author on same topic. Excluded.

• Mehra D: Gender Equity in Forest Management: Case studies from Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra State. 2013.

No access to book. Minor academic publisher. Found conference paper on same topic by same author. Included.

• Schneichel M, Asmussen P: Dry forest management-Putting campesinos in charge. Advances in Geoecology 1998, 31:1023-1028.

No access except to the table of contents for the issue, but the issue is about soil and water conservation. Excluded.

• Singh NM: Women and community forests in Orissa: Rights and management.Indian Journal of Gender Studies 2001, 8:257-270.

No access to article. Found book chapter available online with same title and same authors and published three years after the paper (chapter is in Livelihood and Gender: Equity in Community Resource Management). Excluded.

Articles included at abstract level but not found at full text and thus excluded

1.Abzug B, Islam I: Beijing and beyond: women's leadership in sustainable natural resource management. Natural Resources Forum. Wiley Online Library; 1996: 85-90.

No access to article. First author died in 1998. No email for second author found. Introduction to a book.

2.Anonymous: Solutions through Gender Research: 2nd Global Symposium on Gender and Fisheries. Gender, Technology and Development 2009, 13:149-161.

No access to article and no authors mentioned. Conference report from the 8th Asian Fisheries Symposium that summarizes conference presentations.

3.Britt C, Shrestha N: Hidden faces and public spaces: a reappraisal of women's contribution in realizing community forest management in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya. For Trees People 1998, 35:4-8.

No access to article. Could not find authors' emails. Newsletter.

Articles excluded because not available in English

4.Ishizaki R, Ohta Y: Gender Equality and Diversity in Forestry and Forest Research for Forests and Humankind a Hundred Years from Now. Journal of the Japanese Forest Society 2014, 96:294-295.

5.Lara-Aldave S, Vizcarra-Bordi I: Políticas ambientales-forestales y capital social femenino mazahua. Economía, sociedad y territorio 2008, 8:477-515.

Articles excluded on population type (i.e. does not refer to forests or fisheries)

6.Bakshi S, et al (2001). Empowering women through self help groups (SHG): a case study. Tropical forestry research: challenges in the new millennium. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Peechi, India, 2-4 August, 2000., Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI).

7.Meinzen-Dick R andM Zwarteveen(1998). Gendered participation in water management: Issues and illustrations from water users ‘associations in South Asia. Agriculture and Human Values 15(4): 337-345.

8.Schneichel M, Asmussen P: Dry forest management-Putting campesinos in charge.Advances In Geoecology1998, 31:1023-1028.

9.World Bank (2005). Streamlining Gender Issues within Natural Resource Managment.Accessed Online August 2015:

Articles excluded on intervention (i.e. does not refer to women or gender in the context of a management group)

10.African Development Bank (2008). Republic of Benin Agoua, Monts Kouffe and Wari-Maro Forestry Management Project (PAMF): Project Completion Report. Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department (OSAN), December 2008.

11.Burnely GE (1999).The Role of Women in the Promotion of Forest Products. Conference paper submitted to Non Wood Forest Products of Central Africa: Current research issues and prospects fro conservation and development. FAO, Rome.

12.CARE International (2011). Mozambique: Country Snapshot. Johannesburg, South Africa.

13.CARE (2012). New Hope for Marine Life. Accessed Online August 2015:

14.CARE (2014). CARE and WWF: Innovating and Learning Together. Accessed Online August 2015:

15.Coulibaly-Lingani P, et al (2011). Factors influencing people's participation in the forest management program in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Forest Policy and Economics 13(4): 292-302.

16.Crawford B, et al (2010). Small scale fisheries management: lessons from cockle harvesters in Nicaragua and Tanzania.Coastal Management 38(3): 195-215.

17.Dangol S (2005). Participation and decision making in Nepal. InThe Equitable Forest: Diversity, Community, and Resource Management: 54-71.

18.Eder JF (2005). Coastal resource management and social differences in Philippine fishing communities. Human Ecology 33(2): 147-169.

19.IFAD (2001). Rural Poverty Report 2001 - The Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty. Accessed online August 2015:

20.IUCN (2012). Improving environmental governance for sustainable management of natural resources in Bangladesh. Accessed Online August 2015:

21.Jones B and B Wyckoff Baird(1996).Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) Enhancing Conservation, Development & Democracy in Namibia‟s Rural Areas? Accessed Online August 2015:

22.Kanvinde HS (1999). Maldivian Gender Roles in Bio-Resource Management, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.

23.Locher, M. (2006) “We could show the men that we are able to do it”. A Women’s-Development Approach in the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area Project, East Nepal. Chapter 12 In Premchander S and Müller C, (eds.) (2006). Gender and Sustainable Development: Case Studies from NCCR North-South. Perspectives of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, University of Bern, Vol. 2. Bern: Geographica Bernensia, 364 pp.

24.Ojha H, Persha L and A Chhatre (2009). Community Forestry in Nepal: A Policy Innovation for Local Livelihoods. IFPRI Discussion Paper 00913, November 2009.

25.Ostwald M and R Baral(2000). Local forest protection, gender and caste—Dhani Hill, Orissa, India. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 82(3): 115-128.

26.Pandolfelli L, et al (2008). Gender and collective action: motivations, effectiveness and impact. Journal of International Development 20(1): 1-11.

27.Prasad Timsina N (2003). Promoting social justice and conserving montane forest environments: a case study of Nepal's community forestry programme. The Geographical Journal 169(3): 236-242.

28.Rajasekharan Pillai K and B Suchintha(2006). Women empowerment for biodiversity conservation through self help groups: a case from Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala, India. International journal of agricultural resources, governance and ecology 5(4): 338-355.

29.Schroeder RA (1999). Shady practice: Gender and the political ecology of resource stabilization in Gambian garden/orchards. Economic Geography: 349-365.

30.Sen HT,et al (2006). Creating opportunities for change-strengthening the social capital of women and the poor in upland communities in Hue, Viet Nam. Social and gender analysis in natural resource management-learning studies and lessons from Asia: 155-179.

31.Setyowati A. (2012). Ensuring that women benefit from REDD+. Unasylva 63(239): 57-62.

32.Thomas-Slayter BP (1992). Politics, class, and gender in African resource management: the case of rural Kenya. Economic Development and Cultural Change: 809-828.

33.Tiani AM, Akwah G and J Nguiebouri (2005). Women in Campo-Ma’an National Park. Chapter 6 in Colfer CJP. (ed.) The equitable forest: diversity, community and resource management, Resources for the Future and CIFOR, Washington, DC. pp. 151-170

34.UpadhyayB (2005). Women and natural resource management: Illustrations from India and Nepal. Natural Resources Forum, 29: 224-232

35.USAID (2013). Managing shared resources on Senegal-Gambia border. Accessed Online August 2015:

36.Villamor GB, et al (2014). Gender influences decisions to change land use practices in the tropical forest margins of Jambi, Indonesia. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 19(6): 733-755.

37.World Wildlife Fund and CARE (2011). Saving Forests & the Climate , Protecting Rights & Livelihoods. Acessed Online August 2015:

Articles excluded on comparator (i.e. no comparison of management groups, or non -relevant comparison)

38.African Development Bank (2013). Project appraisal report: Gazetted forests participatory management project for REDD + (PGFC/REDD+) Burkina Faso. Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department (OSAN), November 2013.

39.African Development Bank (2014). AfDB supports Ghana local communities with $14.55 million to reduce deforestation. accesses August 2015:

40.Asian Development Bank (2010). Gender Equality Results Case Studies: Sri Lanka. Madaluyong City, Philippines.

41.Asian Development Bank (2015). Project Data Sheet: Sustainable Forest Management to Improve Livelihood of Local Communities (Mongolia). Project number 48061-002. Accessed Online August 2015:

42.Aswani S and P Weiant (2004). Scientific evaluation in women’s participatory management: monitoring marine invertebrate refugia in the Solomon Islands.Human Organization 63(3): 301-319.

43.Bagsit FU and CN Jimenez(2013). Gender roles in the mangrove reforestation programmes in Barangay Talokgangan, Banate, Iloilo, Philippines: A case study where women have sustained the efforts. SPC Women in Fisheries Information Bulletin: 40-44.

44.Beck T, et al (2006). Exclusive, moi? Natural resource management, poverty, inequality and gender in Asia. In Communities, livelihoods and natural resources: Action research and policy change in Asia: 297-320.

45.Bijaya GCD (2011). Community Forest as a Vehicle for Poverty Reduction, Good Governance and Gender Equity. Indian Journal of Ecology 38(Special Issue): 169-181.

46.Bojang, F. and A. Ndeso-Atanga (2014). Enhancing gender quality in the management of Africa's natural resources. Nature & Fauna29(1).

47.Blah T. and Choudhury, DB. T (2011). Empowering Disadvantaged Women Through Natural Resource Management Groups. Sustainable Mountain Development, No. 57, ICIMOD, Summer 2010

48.Corbridge S and S Jewitt (1997). From forest struggles to forest citizens? Joint Forest Management in the unquiet woods of India's Jharkhand. Environment and Planning29(12): 2145-2164.

49.Evans, K., et al. (2014). Field guide to Adaptive Collaborative Management and improving women's participation. Bogor, Indonesia, CIFOR.

50.FAO (1989). What is community forestry and why include women. Accessed Online August 2015:

51.FAO (1995). Implications for joint forest management programs. Accessed Online August 2015:

52.Filimão, E., et al. (2000). Tchuma Tchato: An evolving experience of community based natural resource management in Mozambique. Accessed Online August 2015:

53.Flintan, F. (2003). ‘Engendering’ Eden Volume II Women , Gender and ICDPs in Africa: Lessons Learnt and Experiences Shared. Wildlife and Development Series No.17, International Institute for Environment and Development, London.

54.Gätke P (2008). Women's Participation in Community Fisheries Committees in Cambodia. Master Thesis by Pelle Gätke - Group 165, Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change Roskilde University, Denmark

55.Gera, P. (2002). Section II Women's Role in Forestry in Women's Role and Contribution to Forest-Based Livelihoods. New Delhi, UNDP: 3-11.

56.IFAD (2001). Why women should be included in village natural resource management organizations. Accessed Online August 2015:

57.International Resources Group Ltd (2000). The Case of Duru-Haitemba Community-Based Forest Managment Project Babait District, Arusha Region Tanzania: Appendix 2 of the EPIQ Assessment of Lessons Learned from Community Based Conservation in Tanzania. Prepared for USAID/Tanzania by International Resources Group, Ltd, Washington DC.

58.Karki S. and Gurung M. (2012) Women’s leadership in community forestry in the middle hills of Nepal.In Khadka M. and Verma R. (2012) Gender and biodiversity management in the greater Himalayas: Towards equitable mountain development. Kathmandu: ICIMOD

59.King, M., et al. (1998). Community-based Management of Subsistence Fisheries in Tropical Regions. Second Pacific Community Fisheries Management Workshop, Noumea, New Caledonia.

60.Kleiber DL (2014). Gender and small-scale fisheries in the Central Philippines. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Resource Management and Environmental Studies) the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

61.Lama A, Buchy M: Gender, Class, Caste and Participation The Case of Community Forestry in Nepal.Indian Journal of Gender Studies 2002, 9:27-41

62.Lambeth, L. (1998). Women and community-based fisheries in Samoa. SPC Women in Fisheries Information Bulletin: 11-16.

63.Larson, A. M., et al. (2015). Gender and REDD+: Analyzing women’s roles in sub-national initiatives. Accessed Online August 2015:

64.Leach M: Rainforest relations: Gender and resource use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone. Oxford University Press; 1994.

65.Leith J and FH Cummings (1993). Social Forestry in Tana Toraja, Indonesia: The Participation of Women in Decision Making. Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement 14(1): 211-228.

66.Mairena E, Lorio G, Hernandez Z, Wilson C, Muller P. and Larson AM. (2012) Gender and forests in Nicaragua’s autonomous regions, Community participation. CIFOR Info. Brief No. 47, December 2012, pp. 1-4.

67.McDougall CL, Leeuwis C, Bhattarai T, Maharjan MR, Jiggins J: Engaging women and the poor: adaptive collaborative governance of community forests in Nepal. Agriculture and Human Values 2013, 30:569-585.

68.Molnar A (1991)Women and international forestry development. Society & Natural Resources 4(1): 81-90.

69.Mukasa C, Tibazalika A, Mango A. and Nabirye Muloki H. (2012). Gender and forestry in Uganda: Policy, legal and institutional frameworks. CIFOR Info. Brief No. 53, pp. 1-6.

70.Mukherjee, M. (2014). Gender Mainstreaming Strategy of NERCORMP For Sustainable Management of Community Conserved Areas (CCA). Accessed Online August 2015:

71.Murali K et al (2002). Evaluation studies of Joint Forest Management in India: a review of analytical processes. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development 1(2): 184-199.

72.Mwangi E, Meinzen-Dick R, Sun Y (2011). Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America. Ecology and Society, 16:17. (NB: excluded this one after a lot of discussion. Concensus was that it covers forest users groups but not forest management groups.)

73.Nandigama S (2013). Invited spaces and informal practices in participatory community forest management in India.Forest and Nature Governance, Springer: 89-107.

74.Nemarundwe N (2005). Women, decisionmaking, and resource management in Zimbabwe. Chapter 7 in Colfer CJP. (ed.) The equitable forest: diversity, community and resource management, Resources for the Future and CIFOR, Washington, DC. pp. 151-170

75.Onta N (2012). When pigs fly: why is including women in managing forests still so unusual? International Institute for Environment and Development (London, UK) Guest Blog, Accessed Online August 2015:

76.Permatasari, E., et al. (2007). Baru Pelepat village, Jambi: lubuk larangan and women. Chapter 3 in Yuliani EL, Tadjudin D, Indriatmoko Y, Munggoro DW, Gaban F, Maulana F. and Adnan H. (2007) Multi-stakeholder forestry: steps to change. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia.

77.Pokharel RK and KR Tiwari (2013). Good governance assessment in Nepal's community forestry. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 32(6): 549-564.

78.Polyn S. and Maetala R. (2011). Women and men working together in natural resource management. A Facilitator’s Guide to Gender Inclusive Natural Resource Management. Live & Learn Environmental Education, Solomon Islands.

79.Porro NM and S Stone (2005) Diversity in living gender: two cases from the Brazilian Amazon. Chapter 12 in Colfer CJP. (ed.) The equitable forest: diversity, community and resource management, Resources for the Future and CIFOR, Washington, DC. pp. 151-170

80.Ratner BD, et al (2013). Collaborating for resilience in complex aquatic resource commons: Lessons for policy and practice. Penang, Malaysia.

81.Resurreccion BP and R Elmhirst (eds) (2008). Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions, Routledge

82.Schmink M (1999). Conceptual framework for gender and community-based conservation. Case Study No. 1April, 1999. Gender, Community Participation and Natural Resource Management. MERGE, Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis, Tropical Conservation and Development Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida.

83.Schwarz A, James R, Teioli HM, Cohen P and M Morgan(2014). Engaging women and men in community-based resource management processes in Solomon Islands. Penang, Malaysia: CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. Case Study: AAS-2014-33.

84.Singh NM: Women and community forests in Orissa: Rights and management. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 2001, 8:257-270.