Acknowledgments v

Abbreviations vi

Executive summary vii

1. Introduction 1

2. Definitions and employment data 3

2.1 Definition of the forest sector 3

2.2 Employment data by sector and gender 3 2.3 Employment data cleaning 5

2.4 Reporting and non-reporting data countries 5

3. Methodological approach to fill data gaps 9

4. Results 17

4.1 Forest-sector employment and subsector contribution 17

4.2 Employment trends in the forest sector and related industries 18

4.3 Women’s contribution to the forest-sector employment 21

4.4 Female employment trends in the forest sector and related industries 24

5. Methodological advantages and limitations 25

6. Conclusions and ways forward 27

7. Annexes 29