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Introduction
to the
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Gender Analysis
Framework
Contribution of Gender Analysis
to Health Programs
For Groups and Individuals:
 Risks and exposures
 Occurrence, severity, and frequency of
disease
 Social and cultural responses to
disease, sexuality, and reproduction
 Access to health resources
 Capacity to exercise rights
Contribution of Gender Analysis
to Health Programs
For the Health System:
 Responses of the health sector
 Allocation and distribution of
resources
 Distribution of responsibilities
and power among different
categories of health workers
 Impact of policies
Two Fundamental Questions
• How will gender relations affect
the achievement of sustainable
results?
• How will proposed results affect
the relative status of men and
women?
Activity Domains for
Gender Analysis
 Access to Assets
 Knowledge, Beliefs, and
Perceptions
 Practices and Participation
 Space and Time
 Legal Rights and Status
 Power
Access to Assets
The capacity to use the resources necessary to be a
fully active and productive (socially, economically and
politically) participant in society.
Access to:
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Resources
Income
Services
Employment
Information
Benefits
Knowledge, Beliefs, and Perceptions
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Types of Knowledge that
men and women are privy
to—Who knows what
Beliefs (ideology) that
shape gender identities and
behavior, and how men and
women and boys and girls
conduct their daily lives
Perceptions that guide how
people interpret aspects of
their lives differently
depending on their gender
identity.
Practices and Participation
Gender structures peoples’ behaviors and
actions --what they do-- and the way they
engage in Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS
(or other development) activities.
Participation in:
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Activities
Meetings
Political
Processes
Services
Training Courses
PRACTICE
PARTICIPATION
Time and Space
Gender affects how people use time:
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Time Allocation
Time Availability
Division of labor
Gender affects where in the landscape
people spend their time
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Where women and men (girls and boys)
work
Where women and men (boys and girls)
socialize
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SPACE
Legal Rights and Status
Refers to how gender affects the way people
are regarded and treated by both customary
law and the formal legal code and judicial
system.
Rights to:
Ownership and Inheritance
 Legal Documents
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 identity cards
property titles
 voter registration
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Reproductive Choice
 Representation
 Due process
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Power
Gender norms and relations influence people’s
ability to freely decide, influence, control,
enforce, and to engage in collective actions.
To Exercise decisions about:
 One’s body
 Children
 Affairs of the household, community, municipality,
and state
 The use of individual economic
resources and income
 Choice of employment
 Voting, running for office, and legislating
 Entering into legal contracts
 Moving about and associating with others
Gender-based
Constraints and Opportunities
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Gender-based constraints are factors that
inhibit men’s or women’s access to resources,
behavior and participation, time use, mobility,
rights, and exercise of power based on their
gender identity.
Gender-based opportunities are
structural and institutional factors that
facilitate women’s and men’s equitable access
to resources, behavior and participation, time
use, mobility, rights, and exercise of power
STEP 1:DIRECTIONS
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In Table 1 write down information you find
in the case study on your assigned domain
Share your findings with other people at
your table and decide on what is the most
important information on gender for your
assigned domain.
Together formulate 2-3 questions
pertaining to information (within your
assigned domain) that you need to know
but do not find in the case study.
STEP 2 Directions:
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Follow the directions under STEP 1 for your own
project or one selected by one of your group mates
Take the information that you identified in Table 1
and try to analyze the implications of that information
using the categories in Table 2.
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Identify gender-based constraints and opportunities
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Try to answer the ADS questions
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Identify activities that may overcome the constraints
or take advantage of the opportunities
Examples of Key Questions
Look on page 3 of your hand-out
to guide your analysis of key
gender-based constraints and
opportunities.