Subject(s): Community forestry -- Forestry and community -- Women in forestry -- Potential of presence : Presence and representation, gendered interests and environment, gender stakes in forest, gendered interests and forest conservation, from absence to negotiated presence, decentralizing forest governance -- Impact of presence : Field sites and field profile, EC, CFI functioning -- From exclusion to empowered engagement : Participatory exclusions, constraints on women's effective participation, effective participation- empirical description, factors affecting participation- regression analysis -- Rules and rule makers : Diversity of forest use rules -- Violations and penalties : Dilemmas of measurement, rule violations, penalties specified and enforced, conservation and regeneration, forest profiles, shortages amidst growing plenty, firewood shortage -- Beyond presence : Connecting with civil society- weaving a web of strategic alliances, enhancing women's numbers, voice and influence, extending vertical reach, engaging with government, definitions of variables and descriptive statistics -- women & politics