The design and implementation of these projects is geared to achieve social equity through community participation in natural resource management. Project interventions currently underway in these two sites include non timber forest product extraction, agroforestry systems, and eco-tourism, the most commonly proposed types of project for community based conservation and development. In keeping with a gendered political ecology approach, one level of analysis will focus on how participation in project benefits is differentiated among different stakeholder and user groups. Gender is assumed to be one of the key factors underpinning this differentiation. The second level of analysis will focus on project induced changes in decisions about intra-household allocation of labor and income, comparing households of different size, life cycle characteristics, and migratory status.
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