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The paper examines the World Banks recent forestry strategy for Africa from a gender perspective and relates it to the Banks' philosophy of sustainable development. Although the strategy proclaims sensitivity to gender issues, it does not address womens concerns, nor examine the gender implications of proposed policies. Moreover, the Bank has a tendency to disproportionately implicate women in deforestation. The paper argues that this violates the equity principle underlying the idea of sustainable development, and offers an analytical framework of differential environmental impacts for addressing gender issues in the context of sustainable development in Africa. This framework places gender within the sustainable development paradigm as a matter of intra-generational equity requisite for sustainability.