gender and targeting: key concepts
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Gender and targeting: key conceptsMaria HartlSenior Technical Specialist Gender and Social EquityPolicy and Technical Advisory DivisionProgramme Management DepartmentInternational Fund for Agricultural Development
Identifying social and gender issues
Identifying social and gender issues
Men and women ... • have different needs and priorities
• play different roles• have different constraints• have different obligations and responsibilities
Sex is the biological differences –male/femaleUniversal
Gender is a set of culturally defined attributes of geing male or female
• Sex - the biological differences –male/female
- Universal• Gender
- a set of culturally defined attributes of being male or female
What is sex, what is gender ?
What is a gender role?
- Socially constructed roles and responsibilities that are attributed to women and men by given society on the basis of their perceived differences
- Gender roles can change over time and place
Gender-Sex quiz
• Women give birth, men don’t. • Caring of babies is the responsibility of women because they
can breast feed babies.• Men have moustaches. • Women cannot carry heavy loads.• Women are scared of working at night outside their home.• Men’s voices break at puberty, women’s don’t.• Women are emotional and men are rational.• Most of the women have long hair and men have short hair.• Most scientists are men.• Cooking comes naturally to women • Women like to be at home and take care of house
Gender concepts
• Gender Equality: women and men have equal rights, freedoms, conditions and opportunities to access and control socially valued goods and resources and enjoy the same status within a society.
• Gender Equity: fairness of treatment for women and men according to their respective needs.
• Empowerment: the process of increasing the opportunity of people to take control over their own lives.
Identifying social and gender issues
What is gender mainstreaming?
“The process of assessing the implicationsfor women and men of any planned action,including legislation, policies or programmes, in any area and at all levels. »
Gender roles: - are socially defined- determine social and economic activities- vary according to region and activities- are dynamic and change over time
Education Health
Family
Voice
EconomyEmployment
Infrastructure
Community
Gender Equality Women’s Empowerment
Basic Services
TGender equality –
women’s empowerment
A FRAMEWORK
FOR TARGETING
Monitoring Targeting
Target group identification
Diagnost
ic framewo
rk
Gender-Sensitive Poverty and livelihoods analysis
Targeting measure
s Geographic Targeting
Self-Targeting
Enabling
measures
Empowerment & capacity
building
Direct Targetin
g
IFAD’s framework for social targeting
Targeting and gender in project cycle
Analysis: project activities and beneficiary outreach
Poorer
Transitory poor
Economically active poor
Well-off
Participatory planning
Infrastructure development
Land managementCommunity development
Broad outreach
Poorest
Agricultural productivityFood and nutrition security
Agri-business and enterprise developmentSmall business development
Targeted outreach
Household mentoring
Safety netsWork programmes
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