To identify how men and women respond to policies as drivers of change in forest cover and land uses? 2) What do men and women gain from the current land uses? 3) REDD+ is a performances based payment mechanisms – what are the men and women’s performances to different REDD+ benefits and incentives? 4) What are the trade- offs between income and carbon? and 5) What are the potential net gains (for men and women) from adopting emission reducing activities