Gender Analysis and Frameworks

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• Gender Analysis and Frameworks

Module C
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Review of the BIG IDEAS from previous sections.
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Learning Objectives

• Understand the concepts of gender mainstreaming
  and gender analysis.
• Identify when gender analysis can be used in
  program stages.
• Understand the value of gender analysis
  frameworks and when they can be used.
• Identify TAFs key areas of concern regarding
  gender that should be considered in a good gender
  analysis (i.e. power, access, control,
  constraints, opportunities).
• Understand how to apply the hybrid framework
  developed for the case study.

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What is Gender Mainstreaming?

• Gender mainstreaming is
• A strategy for considering womens and mens
  concerns and needs in programming to ensure that
  women and men benefit equally and inequality is
  not perpetuated.

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Why do we mainstream gender?
Human Rights
Sustainable Development for All
Good governance
Economic Growth
Effective Programming
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• Gender mainstreaming is a big-picture strategy to
  incorporate (or mainstream) gender concerns to
  achieve gender equality.
• Gender analysis is a process to identify,
  analyze, and inform action to address gender
  inequalities.

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What is gender analysis?

• Gender analysis involves the collection and
  analysis of sex-disaggregated data.
• Understanding the different experiences,
  knowledge, and needs of men and women allows
  programs and policies to include those needs.

Sex-disaggregated data is data that, when
collected, differentiates between men and women.
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Gender Analysis in Practice

• Gender analysis can be used in Project Design,
  Implementation, and Monitoring and Evaluation.

Project
Design Example Conduct a baseline survey to
understand the project context including
gender roles, stereotypes, and
power dynamics.
Implementation Example Create same-sex
groups for trainings and workshops and utilize
female facilitators.
Monitoring and Evaluation Example Conduct
evaluation and collect sex-disaggregated data to
see how the project impacted men and women
differently.
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Gender Analysis Frameworks

• Gender analysis frameworks are a useful tool with
  which to understand gender dynamics within a
  project or a context.

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When and how to use the frameworks
Use a gender analysis framework
Use a gender analysis framework
Ongoing ME
Ongoing ME
Use a gender analysis framework
Use a gender analysis framework
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• Because TAF has a specific approach, we need a
  particular framework to capture our priorities.

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TAFs Political Economy Approach

• All development contexts are inherently political
  and involve competing interests.
• TAFs political economy approach incorporates
  political and power dynamics of a local context
  in program design.
• This approach allows TAFs programs to identify
  political actors on all sides and determine how
  to best make change.

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TAF Hybrid Framework

• Step One Problem Identification
• Step Two Identify causes of the problem and
  their impact on men and women.
• Step Three Conduct gender analysis based on
  needs and goals. Consider what role men and women
  can play to address these.

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Step One Problem Identification

• What is the core problem we are trying to address?

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Step Two Causes and Effects
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Key Considerations in TAFs FrameworkAccess and
Control

• Consider who controls access to resources. Access
  simply means ability to use a resource (tangible
  or intangible).
• Consider power relations. Inequality in power
  relations can lead to imbalanced control over
  resources.

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Key Ideas in TAFs FrameworkOpportunities and
Constraints

• Gender-based opportunities are gender relations
  that facilitate mens or womens access to
  resources or opportunities of any type.
• Gender-based constraints are gender relations
  that inhibit either mens or womens access to
  resources or opportunities of any type.

Source http//www.igwg.org/igwg_media/GenderSafe
Mothrhd/intro-gendr-analysis-present.pdf
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Step Three Gender Analysis
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Gender Analysis Activity

• Review the case study
• Identify the problem
• Apply the TAF Hybrid framework

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Follow-up Questions

• 1. Refer back to Module B in which you identified
  areas of gender equality/inequality in
  Wonderland. After working through the gender
  analysis framework, do you think these issues are
  critical to consider?
• 2. Do the potential interventions you identified
  in the framework address these gender
  inequalities?
• 3. Look at the possible interventions you just
  developed. Considering those interventions,
  provide two detailed descriptions of how you have
  mainstreamed gender into the implementation of
  this project.
• 4. What might be some obstacles to conducting a
  rigorous gender analysis in this context?

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What are the BIG IDEAS from this section?