Assess and categorize the project’s potential to integrate gender dimensions and contribute to the advancement of gender equality. Collect and analyse sex-disaggregated data and qualitative information to understand roles and needs of women and men. Design project activities to meet the specific needs of women and men.

Following Heywood’s definition of ideology, human rights are an ideology because a) they offer an account of the existing order, a world-view, meaning they offer (relatively) clear moral boundaries of the world as it should be; b) they advance a model of a desired future, a vision of ‘good society’; and most …

1. Steps to assess and analyse gender inequalities and needs.
2. Collect information and disaggregated data on the target group.
3. Identify existing gender inequalities and their underlying causes.
4. Consult directly with the target groups.
5. Draw conclusions.
6. Additional resources.

Expectations about attributes and behaviours appropriate to women or men and about the relations between women and men – in other words, gender – are shaped by culture.

The five principles of gender mainstreaming

• Gender-sensitive language. Texts referring to or addressing both women and men must make women and men equally visible.
• Gender-specific data collection and analysis.
• Equal access to and utilisation of services.
• Women and men are equally involved in decision making.
• Equal treatment is integrated into steering processes.

Gender integration (or mainstreaming) is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality.

• Gender analysis. Gender analysis provides the necessary data and information to integrate a gender perspective into policies, programmes and projects.
• Gender audit.
• Gender awareness-raising.
• Gender budgeting.
• Gender equality training.
• Gender evaluation.
• Gender impact assessment.
• Gender statistics and indicators.

Gender mainstreaming is a strategy to improve the quality of public policies, programmes and projects, ensuring a more efficient allocation of resources. Better results mean increased well-being for both women and men, and the creation of a more socially just and sustainable society.

Mainstreaming involves ensuring that gender perspectives and attention to the goal of gender equality are central to all activities – policy development, research, advocacy/ dialogue, legislation, resource allocation, and planning, implementation and monitoring of programmes and projects.

The Gender Analysis Tool, produced by Global Affairs Candada (Formerly Canadian International Development Agency. CIDA), can be used for examining the differences between the roles that women and men play and for better understanding how these differences impact on their lives in different circumstances.

Gender analysis provides information that recognizes that gender, and its relationship with race, ethnicity, culture, class, age, disability, and/or other status, is important in understanding the different patterns of involvement, behaviour and activities that women and men have in economic, social and legal …

The Gender Analysis Matrix is an analytical tool that uses participatory methodology to facilitate the definition and analysis of gender issues by the communities that are affected by them. Gender analysis cannot be transformative unless the analysis is done by the people being analyzed.

GAD focus primarily on two major frameworks, Gender Roles and Social Relations Analysis.

Moser based the notion of strategic and practical gender needs on the distinction made by Maxine Molyneux in a paper published in 1985 between women’s interests, strategic gender interests, and practical gender interests.

Gender identity and gender role Gender identity is defined as a personal conception of oneself as male or female (or rarely, both or neither). This concept is intimately related to the concept of gender role, which is defined as the outward manifestations of personality that reflect the gender identity.

Gender equity is the process of being fair to women and men. To ensure fairness, strategies and measures must often be available to compensate for women’s historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from otherwise operating on a level playing field.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is violence that is directed at an individual based on his or her biological sex OR gender identity. It includes physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse, threats, coercion, and economic or educational deprivation, whether occurring in public or private life.