Leuser Foundation:

• The development of AFEP builds of previous experience in implementing conservation programs in Aceh, among others the EC-financed Leuser Development Programme (1995-2004). The main concern is to protect the forest of Aceh and traditionally the major effort undertaken by Leuser International Foundation (LIF) to achieve this goal has been through intensive field monitoring by Community Monitoring Teams (CMT), two weeks of non-stop patrolling in the rainforest every month to detect illegal activities, or Mobile Patrol Units (MPU), patrolling alone by bike or foot to track illegal transportations and transactions of natural resources, tasks considered not suitable to women according to Acehnese customs.
• Out of 155 LIF’s AFEP-employees 100 are field staff, 64.5 %, and only two of them are women. However this doesn’t mean that women don’t play an important role in the protections of the forest. Among the rest of the staff 18 out of 35 people are women (51.4%). Historically women have held key positions in LIF. Female researchers has undertaken field biodiversity and large mammal surveys, women has been employed as both volunteers and regular staff. Today 5 of 13 Officers are women including Human Resource Officer, Awareness Officer, Press Officer, GIS Officer and Training Coordinator; among LIF’s Board of Directors two of sic are women, 2 of 15 LIF’s Board of Trustees are women.
• Even if LIF not yet has achieved gender equality, it has historically been natural at LIF to appreciate the importance of both m e n’s and women’s contributions to conservation, and consequently “promoting gender equality” has not been stated explicitly in the AFEP project goals.

Leuser Foundation:

• In the Conservation Officer Training Program conducted as a collaboration project between AFEP and CIDA, two of 30 participants in the first training phase were women, and 1 of 11 continued to the second training phase and has now employed by LIF. LIF’s Awareness Officer reports that in the teacher training conducted by the project (on environmental matters in general and more specifically on the Leuser Ecosystem) most of the participants have been women
• Project implementation support (component 3) employs 5 women and 10 male staff
• Awareness activities conducted by LIF within AFEP have high percentage of female participants. 130 out of 231 of (SD, SMP and SMA) teachers trained are women, i.e. 56.3 %. 53.5 % of the EcoClub members (environmental groups at SD, SMP and SMA level) are girls/women. The eco clubs that have been formed on a voluntary basis in schools in the project area, are mostly joined by girls. The girls tend to be more active in those groups, and ask more questions, while the boys tend to stay at the back. (The girls are apparently also better in English, and more eager to learn English when a foreign visitor shows up. This is brought up here to underline that the common perception of male dominace surely is a simplification or even a misunderstanding in some respects.)
• The spatial planning team working to implement the goal of “Integration of environmental concernsinto Aceh's reconstruction and development planning process including” constitutes of 50 % female team members.

Flora and Fauna Indonesia :

The small grants process does not have a set aside for women’s organizations but is a fair process based on the capacity of the organizations. During the recent round of selection for small grants 30% of those attending were women and one out of the three selected NGOs was a Female led organization. It may not be realistic or fair to set aside grants only for women without also doing to for other marginalized groups.

Leuser Foundation:

• In the Conservation Officer Training Program conducted as a collaboration project between AFEP and CIDA, two of 30 participants in the first training phase were women, and 1 of 11 continued to the second training phase and has now employed by LIF. LIF’s Awareness Officer reports that in the teacher training conducted by the project (on environmental matters in general and more specifically on the Leuser Ecosystem) most of the participants have been women.
• Project implementation support (component 3) employs 5 women and 10 male staff.
• Awareness activities conducted by LIF within AFEP have high percentage of female participants. 130 out of 231 of (SD, SMP and SMA) teachers trained are women, i.e. 56.3 %. 53.5 % of the EcoClub members (environmental groups at SD, SMP and SMA level) are girls/women. The eco clubs that have been formed on a voluntary basis in schools in the project area, are mostly joined by girls. The girls tend to be more active in those groups, and ask more questions, while the boys tend to stay at the back. (The girls are apparently also better in English, and more eager to learn English when a foreign visitor shows up. This is brought up here to underline that the common perception of male dominace surely is a simplification or even a misunderstanding in some respects.)
• The spatial planning team working to implement the goal of “Integration of environmental concernsinto Aceh's reconstruction and development planning process including” constitutes of 50 % female team members. Targets for involvement of women in implementation are set based on analysis of their role and on the social and cultural context in which the project is being implemented.

Flora and Fauna Indonesia :

Targets for involvement of women in implementation are set based on analysis of their role and on the social and cultural context in which the project is being implemented.