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Appendix 1: tools Gender analysis requires information to be collected about the women, men, girls and boys that the project affects. There are many different ways of gathering such information. It can be done, for example, through interviews, observation, participatory group work and discussions, informal conversations, and so on. The information that is obtained must also be analysed so that it can be useful for planning and the project and carrying it out. On this page you can find links and suggestions for reading that provide different gender analysis tools to help you collect and analysis information. Although the tools you find below are often designed for bigger development cooperation projects than the ones Finnish NGOs normally undertake, particularly in the case of the internet links, you can nevertheless put the information to good use in smaller projects as well. The tools can be combined and adapted for your own needs. “Navigating Gender”, a publication of Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1999, puts forward three particular tools to use in making a gender analysis. The gender equality training pack of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) contains some very important gender analysis tools in the form of tables. They can be used to help in arranging and analysing the information collected. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/mdtmanila/training/unit1 The World Bank has two toolkits,
for gender analysis of agricultural and water projects. From these you
can get suggestions for data collection and gender analysis. http://www.worldbank.org/gender/resources/wstlkt4.pdf The UNDP gender equality pack
includes examples of questions that can arise in gender analysis during
the project cycle. In participatory development cooperation it is essential that the project’s target groups, the people whose lives are expected to improve in the end result, take part at the different stages of the project. Participation can take place in many ways, depending on the project’s quality, duration and aims, and the circumstances surrounding it. The starting point of participatory development cooperation planning is respect for the traditions of the local people and for local knowledge born of experience. Participation does not come about because the organisation carrying out the project arranges it so that people can influence its form or take part in its implementation. Instead the whole framework is changed so that the benefitting people themselves determine and decide about matters. Participation is thus an important process in itself. There are many participatory approaches, including for example, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Training for Transformation (TfT), and Participatory Learning and Action (PLA)). Tools available vary from theme mapping to resource analysis and drama-based exercises to name just a few. Literature about participatory procedures that you can make use of in gender analysis include: Laitinen Hanna: Kenen ehdoilla? Osallistaminen kehitysyhteistyössä. Kepa ry, 2002. (In Finnish) Laitinen, Hanna; Voipio, Timo; Grönqvist, Maria: Yhteisön ääni. Osallistavien menetelmien opas. Kehitysyhteistyön Palvelukeskus ry, 1995. (In Finnish) Chambers, Robert: Participatory Workshops. A sourcebook of 21 sets of ideas and activities. Earthscan Publications. London 2002. Chambers, Robert: Whose Reality Counts? Putting the first last. ITDG Publishing. London 1997. Slocum, Wichhart, Rocheleau, Thomas-Sleyter (ed.): Power, Process and Participation. Tools for Change. ITDG Publishing. London 1995. Mikkelsen Britha: Methods for Development Work and Research. A Guide for Practitioners. Sage Publications. New Delhi 1995. >>> Links
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