Rural Lebanese women weave economic opportunity while conserving the local environment

Hima is an ancient practice used by rural communities in Lebanon to ensure economic cooperation, sustainability and equitable resource management.

Rural women have traditionally played key leadership and decision-making roles in the Hima community model.

Today, one conservation-minded organisation – the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) – is reviving the ancient Hima approach to help rural women reassert their traditional leadership roles in community life.

With support from UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, SPNL is supporting rural Lebanese women and local municipalities to become partners and champions of the environment by promoting local ownership of sustainable resource management. This video follows the story of Nahla Sukkari, a Hima woman from Lebanon’s Bekaa region.

This video is part of the knowledge initiative of UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality “Building Resilience in Fragility: Women’s Empowerment in Action” supported by the Government of Japan.

For more information about the Fund, please visit www.unwomen.org/fge

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