Developed for the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project, this guide outlines a unique gender integration approach utilizing the science of improvement to integrate gender seamlessly into activities. It aims to build the competencies of policy makers, service providers, and community health workers to analyze gender issues – including GBV – that affect development activities. It allows teams to identify gender gaps and issues affecting the achievement of improvement aims, design and implement activities to close these gaps, and document learning.
This framework offers guidance for how FHI 360’s research and programs can systematically identify and challenge gender-based inequalities that pose barriers to development. The Gender Integration Framework offers guiding principles, provides definitions, explains gender integration, introduces gender analysis and addresses gender integration in programs and research. If used consistently and adapted as we learn from daily practice, this framework can enable us to make gender a positive aspect around which individual lives can be improved and human development advanced.
The Gender Tool Box gathers knowledge material and method support on gender equality in the form of tools, briefs and thematic overviews. The tool box features gender mainstreaming tools includingthree main approaches: Integration of gender equality in interventions in general; Targeting specific groups or issues through special interventions; Dialogue with partners on gender sensitive issues and aspects.
The Compendium of Gender Scales contains scales used to assess gender-related attitudes and beliefs. Scales selectedfor the compendium have all been tested for their ability to measure gender attitudes and predict behaviors of interest, such as gender-based violence and partner reduction. Scales selected for the compendium have all been tested for their ability to measure gender attitudes and predict behaviors of interest, such as gender-based violence and partner reduction.
This guide is primarily geared for project developers, managers and implementation staff. It provides information, tips and tools that can help conduct and apply the findings of gender analyses.This guide offers several distinct and coordinated sections, including: A gender analysis overview; IUCN’s recommended core domains of a gender analysis; A dedicated section on GBV considerations in gender analyses; and Templates for many common actions (e.g. recruiting a gender expert, developing an action plan,) with many more recommended guidance tools and resources embedded throughout.
This document provides concrete guidance for organizations on how to comprehensively and explicitly integrate gender in their M&E system. It describes how to make each component of a functioning M&E system gender-sensitive and provides guidance on how to assess the organization’s M&E system to ensure that gender is fully integrated throughout the system for appropriate collection, compilation, analysis, reporting, dissemination, and use of gender data for decision making.
The Gender Guidance Process and Template was developed for country-level offices of health interested in developing their own gender guidance documents. The document is divided into two sections. The process section outlines a method for developing gender guidelines, following a strategic planning process of assessment, objective setting, strategy development, and M&E. The template section provides a template which summarizes the outcomes of the strategic planning process and provides guidance to implementing partners on how to integrate gender into their projects.
These practical guidelines are intended to help all those who work on results-based monitoring (RBM). They focus on the specific challenges of integrating the topic of gender equality by drawing up a solid gender analysis that documents and describes the gender-specific situations, challenges and opportunities and translates these into specific activities and interventions; systematically documenting the positive and negative effects that any activities and interventions have on gender relations and on the different life situations and concerns of women and men by setting up ‘an adequate monitoring system’.
This guidance note focuses on country gender mainstreaming responses within national programmes and across sectors. Using a technical illustrative approach, it unpacks the types and sequencing of decisions and actions at each level and step of decision-making—when laws, policies, budgets, and statistics for service delivery and programmes are being developed, operationalized and/or assessed. The guidance note discusses major changes in gender mainstreaming norms within the current global development context and provides general principles for implementing gender mainstreaming at the country level
This toolkit is designed to provide guidance and tools to support staff in integrating GESI perspectives in all stages of project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (DME). The goal is to enhance the effectiveness, impact and sustainability of work from a GESI perspective. The toolkit includes practical guidance to help staff align relief and development programming with international GESI integration standards and best practices. The toolkit is based on a review of existing DME tools and approaches.