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Introduction to the
Gender Analysis Framework
Contribution of Gender Contribution of Gender Analysis to Health ProgramsAnalysis to Health Programs
For Groups and Individuals:For Groups and Individuals: Risks and exposuresRisks and exposures Occurrence, severity, and frequency Occurrence, severity, and frequency
of diseaseof disease Social and cultural responses to Social and cultural responses to
disease, sexuality, and reproductiondisease, sexuality, and reproduction Access to health resourcesAccess to health resources Capacity to exercise rightsCapacity to exercise rights
Contribution of Gender Contribution of Gender Analysis to Health ProgramsAnalysis to Health Programs
For the Health System:For the Health System: Responses of the health sectorResponses of the health sector Allocation and distribution of Allocation and distribution of
resourcesresources Distribution of responsibilities Distribution of responsibilities
and power among different and power among different categories of health workerscategories of health workers
Impact of policies Impact of policies
Two Fundamental Two Fundamental QuestionsQuestions
• How will gender relations How will gender relations affect the achievement of affect the achievement of sustainable results?sustainable results?
• How will proposed results How will proposed results affect the relative status of affect the relative status of men and women?men and women?
Access to Assets Knowledge, Beliefs, and
Perceptions Practices and Participation Space and Time Legal Rights and Status Power
Activity Domains for Gender Analysis
Access to:
ResourcesResources IncomeIncome ServicesServices EmploymentEmployment InformationInformation BenefitsBenefits
The capacity to use the resources necessary to be a fully active and productive (socially, economically and politically) participant in society.
Access to Assets
Knowledge, Beliefs, and PerceptionsKnowledge, Beliefs, and Perceptions
Types of Knowledge that men and women are privy to—Who knows what
Beliefs (ideology) that shape gender identities and behavior, and how men and women and boys and girls conduct their daily lives
Perceptions that guide how people interpret aspects of their lives differently depending on their gender identity.
Practices and Participation Gender structures peoples’ behaviors and
actions --what they do-- and the way they engage in Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS (or other development) activities.
Activities Meetings Political
Processes Services Training
Courses
Participation in:
PRACTICEPRACTICE
PARTICIPATIONPARTICIPATION
Time and SpaceTime and Space
Gender affects how people use time:Gender affects how people use time: Time AllocationTime Allocation Time AvailabilityTime Availability Division of laborDivision of labor
Gender affects where in the landscape Gender affects where in the landscape people spend their timepeople spend their time Where women and men (girls and boys) Where women and men (girls and boys)
workwork Where women and men (boys and girls) Where women and men (boys and girls)
socializesocialize
TTII
MMEE
SPACE
Legal Rights and StatusLegal Rights and Status
Refers to how gender affects the way people are regarded and treated by both customary law and the formal legal code and judicial system.
Rights to:Rights to: Ownership and Ownership and InheritanceInheritance Legal DocumentsLegal Documents
identity cards property titles voter registration
Reproductive ChoiceReproductive Choice RepresentationRepresentation Due processDue process
PowerPower
One’s bodyOne’s body ChildrenChildren Affairs of the household, community, municipality,Affairs of the household, community, municipality,
and stateand state The use of individual economic The use of individual economic
resources and income resources and income Choice of employmentChoice of employment Voting, running for office, and legislatingVoting, running for office, and legislating Entering into legal contractsEntering into legal contracts Moving about and associating with othersMoving about and associating with others
Gender norms and relations influence people’s ability to freely decide, influence, control, enforce, and to engage in collective actions. To Exercise decisions about:To Exercise decisions about:
Gender-based Gender-based
Constraints and OpportunitiesConstraints and Opportunities
Gender-based constraintsGender-based constraints are factors that are factors that inhibit men’s or women’s access to inhibit men’s or women’s access to resources, behavior and participation, resources, behavior and participation, time use, mobility, rights, and exercise of time use, mobility, rights, and exercise of power based on their gender identitypower based on their gender identity..
Gender-based opportunitiesGender-based opportunities are are structural and institutional factors that structural and institutional factors that facilitate women’s and men’s equitable facilitate women’s and men’s equitable access to resources, behavior and access to resources, behavior and participation, time use, mobility, rights, participation, time use, mobility, rights, and exercise of power and exercise of power
STEP 1:DIRECTIONSSTEP 1:DIRECTIONS
In Table 1 write down information you In Table 1 write down information you
find in the case study on your assigned find in the case study on your assigned domaindomain
Share your findings with other people at Share your findings with other people at your table and decide on what is the your table and decide on what is the most important information on gender most important information on gender for your assigned domain.for your assigned domain.
Together formulate 2-3 questions Together formulate 2-3 questions pertaining to information (within your pertaining to information (within your assigned domain) that you need to know assigned domain) that you need to know but do not find in the case study.but do not find in the case study.
STEP 2 Directions:STEP 2 Directions: Follow the directions under STEP 1 for your own Follow the directions under STEP 1 for your own
project or one selected by one of your group matesproject or one selected by one of your group mates
Take the information that you identified in Table 1 Take the information that you identified in Table 1 and try to analyze the implications of that and try to analyze the implications of that information using the categories in Table 2.information using the categories in Table 2.
Identify gender-based constraints and Identify gender-based constraints and opportunitiesopportunities
Try to answer the ADS questionsTry to answer the ADS questions
Identify activities that may overcome the Identify activities that may overcome the constraints or take advantage of the opportunitiesconstraints or take advantage of the opportunities
Examples of Key QuestionsExamples of Key Questions
Look on page 3 of your hand-out Look on page 3 of your hand-out to guide your analysis of key to guide your analysis of key gender-based constraints and gender-based constraints and opportunities.opportunities.