Resource Library: Gender

This entry contains two documents from ACDI/VOCA.

1) Gender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit

This document was developed for use by ACDI/VOCA staff and consultants in completing gender studies, but has been made available to a wider audience. It provides guidance and tools from the early stages of planning analyses and assessments through the process of collecting and analyzing information. USAID, FAO, Peace Corps, the World Bank, and others are cited throughout.

2) 10 Steps for Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study is a one page document offering tips to aid organizations in utilizing the information collected.

Beginning in 2010, the BRIDGE program started formalizing a gender mainstreaming process with a strong focus on strengthening the program’s internal capacity to integrate gender considerations throughout all of BRIDGE’s activities and levels. This guide aims to help those putting a gender approach and effectively integrate a gender perspective in projects.

This entry contains two documents from ACDI/VOCA.

1) Gender Analysis, Assessment, and Audit Manual and Toolkit

This document was developed for use by ACDI/VOCA staff and consultants in completing gender studies, but has been made available to a wider audience. It provides guidance and tools from the early stages of planning analyses and assessments through the process of collecting and analyzing information. USAID, FAO, Peace Corps, the World Bank, and others are cited throughout.

2) 10 Steps for Operationalizing a Gender Analysis Study is a one page document offering tips to aid organizations in utilizing the information collected.

This toolkit has been developed as part of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) to assist researchers and practitioners who are either new or unfamiliar with using mixed methods for gender and assets data collection and analysis. In addition to establishing the need for gender and assets research, the toolkit defines key concepts and highlights methods for collection, analysis, and dissemination. It also draws from first-hand insights (opportunities and challenges) from previous research projects. For those interested in more in-depth study, the toolkit also links to additional references.

This paper reviews existing microeconomic empirical literature on gender differences in use, access, and adoption of non-land agricultural inputs in developing countries. This review focuses on four key areas: (1) technological resources, (2) natural resources, (3) human resources, and (4) social and political capital. In general, there has been more empirical research on inorganic fertilizer, seed varieties, extension services, and group membership than on tools and mechanization, life-cycle effects, and political participation. Across input areas, generally men have higher input measures than women; however, this finding is often sensitive to the use of models that control for other background factors, as well as the type of gender indicator implemented in the analysis.

Beginning in 2010, the BRIDGE program started formalizing a gender mainstreaming process with a strong focus on strengthening the program’s internal capacity to integrate gender considerations throughout all of BRIDGE’s activities and levels. This guide aims to help those putting a gender approach and effectively integrate a gender perspective in projects.

Eliminating gender-based violence (GBV) has long been a goal of the United States with USAID addressing GBV for nearly two decades. The equal participation of women in the political, economic and social spheres of societies across the world is a key ingredient for democratic development. Unless women fully enjoy their human rights, to which freedom from violence is inextricably bound, progress toward development will continue to fall short. Promoting women's rights and reducing gender-based violence are necessary to increase the effectiveness of development globally. Gender-based violence is manifested in many of the areas in which USAID works, cutting across both development and humanitarian assistance objectives.

The objective of this report is to draw attention to the presence of intra-household inequality and develop a menu of options for developing and testing methods to assess intra-household poverty. The report offers a preliminary assessment of gender-sensitive intra-household poverty tools and provides recommendations for further research and pilot-testing to develop such tools.

This toolkit, developed by the IFPRI-led Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP), provides mixed methodologies for collecting data on assets.  It also provides guidance on key concepts and definitions and offers templates, additional resources, and case studies.

This 6-page brief provides an introduction on the importance of gender considersations in climate change, illustrative examples involving men and women, and recommendations on incorporating gender-transformative adaptive strategies.  Short cases studies from Tajikistan, Ghana, and Bangladesh are provided.