5th Annual Bay Permaculture Convergence Open Space Notes

This manual is intended to be a practical resource for those engaged in mainstreaming gender equality in a variety of contexts. It should not be taken as a universal blueprint for action but rather, as a toolkit of concepts, insights, frameworks and strategies drawn from the exchanges at the workshop. Most of these will have to be tailored to suit a particular socio-cultural, economic and political context. One of the most important realizations to emerge from the workshop was that there is no right answer that will apply to every society. Nevertheless, sharing successes, failures, and all those experiences that have fallen in between, will lead to the strengthening of capacities for those engaged in the pursuit of gender mainstreaming wherever the manual is read.