Gender Integration
Photo from: pulitzercenter.org
What is “gender integration”?
Program Cycle:
- Planning
- implementation
- assessment
Differences &
Inequalities between
women and men
Greater
social equity
Gender
Integration
continuum
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Gender
Integration
Continuum
Gender exploitative, accommodating
or transformative?
Participation in Policy Making in Bolivia
A municipal strategic planning process was
proceeding with no participation from women. Staff
decided to conduct gender workshops for women
and men before the start of the planning process to
create a space for public voice for women, and to
challenge norms about women’s participation in
public policy. In addition to building confidence to
participate in public settings, the groups assessed
changes that the strategic planning process could
include to facilitate participation. *adapted from IGWG training module
Gender exploitative, accommodating
or transformative?
Handwashing for Diarrheal Disease Prevention
in Central America
A large initiative aimed to reduce morbidity and
mortality among children under five through a
communication campaign promoting handwashing with
soap. Mass media (TV, radio, posters) depicted a
mother as a caretaker of the family and illustrated
critical times for handwashing before cooking or
preparing food; before feeding a child or eating; and
cleaning up after a baby.
*adapted from IGWG training module
Gender exploitative, accommodating
or transformative?
Youth Roles in Care and Support for PLWHA
In Zambia, one project sought to involve young people in the
care and support for people living with HIV and AIDS. The
project carried formative research to assess what care-giving
tasks male and female youth felt more comfortable and able
to carry out, as well as what PLWHA themselves would prefer
to have male or female youth carry out. Based on this
research, the project adopted an approach that incorporates
the preferred tasks to develop youth care and support
activities.
*adapted from IGWG training module
• (note to facilitators, the following slides can be
used in small groups for folks to decide where
the project may fall on the continuum, and
also to brainstorm ideas for what could be
done to make the programming more
transformative)
Gender exploitative, accommodating
or transformative?
Supporting family planning use
In Rwanda, a health clinic project which sought to increase
access to family planning methods found that women who
tried to use family planning were facing resistance from their
husbands at home. Within the households, men were the
main decision-makers, yet they did not go to the clinic with
their female partners to learn about and decide on family
planning methods. The clinic decided to provide women who
visited their clinics with a sealed letter of invitation to the
husband, so that they husband would not feel threatened by
their partner’s action in going to the clinic and could make
decisions about family planning choices.
Gender exploitative, accommodating
or transformative?
Sports for Youth
In Kenya, the initiative used sports to provide youth (especially girls) with
opportunities to develop and practice leadership skills. The project uses sport
as a medium for girls’ empowerment; bridging gender inequalities; improving
education success; and enhancing social inclusion of marginalized groups of
youth, with a focus on girls. Girls and boys were encouraged to play in
traditional games, and boys played in boxing and auto mechanics activities
while girls participated in volleyball and music activities. The project took a
“girls too” approach that sought to build community support for girls inclusion
in social spaces outside of school, where they can develop their social,
intellectual and leadership skills in a structured setting. Out of school spaces
include sports clubs, girl guides, technology clubs, or other extra-curricular
activities. Teachers, mentors, peer-educators, and community coaches were
trained to support these efforts. Rather than top-down leadership in the
traditional sense, the initiative emphasized practical opportunities for girls to
develop the ability to take action that improves their own lives, their family,
and their communities. *fictionalized from a CARE project
Gender exploitative, accommodating
or transformative?
Agricultural production yields
In an agricultural project, staff conduct a gender analysis and
learn that men tend to raise cows and women raise
chickens. Though cows are higher value producers than,
women traditionally do not own or raise cows. Staff recognize
these gender differences and plan to separate producer
groups for men and women – one for men (with cows) and a
separate one with women (on chickens)