9. Program Gender Analysis Guidance 2-20.docx

SAMPLE Gender Analysis Questions

S/GWI recommends these questions to help identify different ways in which men, women, boys, girls, and everyone might be impacted by your work. Once you analyze challenges, gaps, and opportunities related to gender, this information should be used to strengthen your program design. For example:

· If traditional gender roles exclude men from nursing jobs, but our intervention is aims to address a need for trained nurses, can we tailor some activities to get more men into nursing?

· If traditional gender roles and economic stress stops girls from attending school, and our intervention aims to increase secondary school attendance and performance, how can we tailor some of our activities to close this gender gap?

I. Context and Background A gender analysis helps consider the different ways in which the work might impact and be impacted by the community/country/region where the work and participants are or will be. The following list provides questions to help complete a gender analysis. They are grouped by domains to align with USAID and to assist in organizing the analysis, but answers may overlap.

Domains of Analysis

· Laws, Policies, Regulations, and Institutional Practices Are men and women treated equally in legislation, and by official policies and institutions in the country? Are there any laws or policies that address inequality or discrimination, current or past? How could treatment under the law, and by official policies and institutions in the country, impact the work?

· Cultural Norms and Beliefs What is expected of men and women here? Do stereotypes help or hurt their engagement in the work? How will the work impact community members in different ways as a result?

· Gender Roles, Responsibilities and Time Use (including paid and unpaid work- like care for family members). Who does what? How do gender roles and responsibilities, inside and outside the home, impact equitable participation in the work? How will participation impact success?

· Access to and Control over Assets and Resources (including income, employment, and land) Do men and women have equal control over and the capacity to use resources—assets, income, education, social benefits, services, technology—and information necessary to be an active and productive participant in society? If not, how might the work need to adjust to close these gaps?

· Patterns of Power and Decision-making (including structural barriers, leadership norms, and entry points). Who decides, influences, and exercises control over material, human, intellectual, and financial resources in the family, community and country? Why? Will women have control over and benefit from assets they may result from participating in the work? Are there any risks associated with disrupting these patterns, even if it’s what beneficiaries want?

Cross-Cutting Questions

· Have you consulted the people with whom you want to work? What do local women’s groups and gender equality practitioners think about the work? Have they flagged potential concerns or unintended consequences (for example: increased income increasing a risk of robbery)?

· How could gender based violence impact the work? How can gender based violence impact participation in, or accessing benefits from, the work? Could anything inadvertently exacerbate gender based violence? This can include examining rates of domestic violence, sexual violence, early and forced marriage, violence against women online or in politics, etc.

· What other factors should be considered? Identity and power, autonomy, and access intersect in different ways to produce empowerment or disempowerment. How do attributes, in addition to gender, determine someone’s safety and access to opportunity? Does anything we are doing risk negatively exacerbating this? Examples include age, religion, race, ethnicity, tribe, wealth, education, marital status, care of children or elderly, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, geographic location, rural/urban residence, disability status, and nationality.

II. Implementation and Proposals How and where you can apply your gender analysis to your design and implementation.

Design

· Staffing

· How will you deal with gender norms, discrimination, and vulnerability in this work?

· Will you train staff to help them be sensitive to different local, national, or regional gender norms, and how to interact with those norms?

· If staff or partners are discriminating against others or being discriminated against, do you have a policy and practices in place to address these issues?

· Will the team include someone trained in privacy and referrals in cases of GBV?

· Will you have someone on staff who understands how to reach women and men for different activities (i.e. voter registration)?

· Will staff be trained on how to assess and bridge gender gaps?

· Will staff be a part of, and able to communicate with, the people you need to reach?

· Stakeholder Participation

· How will you consult with local women and women’s groups to ensure that women are active participation in the work?

· How will you make sure you can reach everyone relevant to the success of the work?

· Which local organizations can help make sure you are able to appropriately engage all members of a community?

· Logic Framework/Work Plan

· How will gender equality be included in your strategic framework and how you implement that strategy?

· Risk Assessment/Challenges

· Is the work likely to exacerbate existing tensions or conflicts within the home, between participants or beneficiaries, within or between communities, or otherwise?

· What gendered issues, including the safety, movement, and access of participants and staff, may arise and how will you mitigate and respond to those risks?

· What are your safeguarding practices and policy to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse of participants by staff and implementing partners?

· MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning)

· How will you monitor, analyze, evaluate, and continuously learn about gender norms, challenges, and opportunities as you implement this work?

· Is reducing gender inequalities a primary goal or objective of your work?

· Are you sex disaggregating proposed indicators that count people?

· Have you included gender-specific indicators (USG GNDR standard indicators may help)?

Gather Data and Reports

Analyze What are relevent gender gaps?

Identify & Address image1.png