Gender Tool Box
The following materials are provided to assist researchers with applying a gender analysis to their work.
Analytical Tools
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Agnes R. Quisumbing and Bonnie McClafferty, 2006
In keeping with the purpose of IFPRI's Food Security in Practice series, this practitioners' guide bridges the gap between research and practice by providing up-to-date, relevant information on why and how gender issues, when taken into account, can improve the design, implementation, and effectiveness of development projects and policies. -
INSTRAW, 2006
This online resource provides access to information on gender mainstreaming, gender training opportunities and gender-related grants and scholarships. -
Carol Miller and Shahra Razavi, 1998
This study offers a comparative analysis of alternative paradigms, or conceptual frameworks used for analyzing gender issues within the development context. - International Development Research Centre, 1998
- Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture and Rural Development: A Reference Manual for Governments and Other StakeholdersCommonwealth Secretariat, 2001
This manual has been produced to assist governments and other stakeholders in mainstreaming gender in agriculture and rural development. The appendices present tools for policy analysis and gender impact assessment, as well as a glossary of terms.
Full Text (PDF 489K) - Offers a comprehensive database of gender trainings and training materials offered by international, governmental and non-governmental organizations on such topics as governance and leadership, migration, poverty, the environment, and agriculture.
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World Bank
An overview of low cost gender analysis (GA) based on the review of various examples of GA carried out within the World Bank, including detailed information on the process, cost and advantages and disadvantages of implementing GA with and without international expertise. - Macro Level Handbook: Gender Analysis in macroeconomic and agricultural sector policies and programmes SEAGA, FAO, 2003Designed to assist policy makers in understanding why it is important to integrate gender analysis at macro and sectoral policy levels.
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World Bank
Provides a brief overview of the objectives of various tools for gender analysis and social assessment used by the World Bank - Types of Gender Analysis in Natural Resource Management and Plant BreedingNina Lilja and Jacqueline A. Ashby, 1999
This tool demonstrates how using gender analysis in natural resource management and plant breeding affects the research process as well as the technology design and adoption outcomes.
Full Text (PDF 274K) - Using Participatory Research and Gender Analysis in Natural Research ManagementNancy Johnson, Nina Lilja and Jacqueline A. Ashby, 2001
There has been little systematic analysis of how participatory research (PR) methods and gender/stakeholder analysis (GSA) are being used in NRM research. This study begins to fill the gap by providing a comparative analysis of over 60 participatory NRM research projects compiled by the Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA).
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Sex-Disaggregated Databases and Gender-Sensitive Indicators
- AGDI is a specifically African index with its emphasis on the major African charters and documents that have a bearing on gender relations and women’s empowerment.
- FAO, 1999
- The ASTI initiative tracks the number of female researchers and their educational levels at the country-level as well as by institutional category.
- Annotated Bibliography on Statistical Methodologies for the Collection, Analysis and Presentation of Gender-Disaggregated DataBRIDGE, 1994
This bibliographic search on statistical methodologies for the collection of gender-disaggregated data was prepared by BRIDGE (Briefings in Development and Gender, IDS) for the British Council Regional Office for West Africa. The bibliography is intended to support a project to improve the capacity of the Federal Office of Statistics (Nigeria) in collecting, analyzing and presenting gender disaggregated data.
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Naila Kabeer, 1999
This paper is intended as a critical reflection on some recent attempts to construct indicators of women’s empowerment, focusing in particular on the meanings given to these measures and values embedded within them. - GSP aims to enhance national capabilities in the production, use and dissemination of gender statistics to lead to more effective policies promoting change for the benefit of women and the advancement of society as a whole.
- The Gender, Institutions, and Development Data Base (GID) represents a new tool for researchers and policy makers to determine and analyse obstacles to women’s economic development. It covers a total of 162 countries and comprises an array of 50 indicators on gender discrimination. The data base has been compiled from various sources and combines in a systematic and coherent fashion the current empirical evidence that exists on the socio-economic status of women. Its true innovation is the inclusion of institutional variables that range from intrahousehold behaviour to social norms. Information on cultural and traditional practices that impact on women’s economic development is coded so as to measure the level of discrimination. Such a comprehensive overview of genderrelated variables and the data base’s specific focus on social institutions make the GID unique, providing a tool-box for a wide range of analytical queries and allowing case-by-case adaptation to specific research or policy questions. For further information contact DEV.Contact@oecd.org .
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FAO, 1999
Discusses methodological and measurement issues, identifies data gaps and highlights the efforts that are still needed to improve the availability of data necessary for a better understanding of gender issues in rural and agricultural development, particularly in the developing countries. -
UNDP, 1995
This report analyzes the progress made in reducing gender disparities in the past few decades, highlights the wide and persistent gap between women's expanding capabilities and limited opportunities, introduces two new measures for ranking countries on a global scale by their performance in gender equality, analyzes the under- valuation and non-recognition of women's work and offers a five-point strategy for equalizing gender opportunities in the decade ahead. - Measuring Empowerment in Practice: Structuring Analysis and Framing IndicatorsRuth Alsop and Nina Heinsohn, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3510, February 2005
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FAO, 2003
This paper develops gender-sensitive indicators (GSI) through the identification of GSI factors that put differential pressure on the management and use of natural resources. - Special Report of the World’s Women 2005: Progress in StatisticsUN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2005
Prepared for the 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, this report analyzes the current state and progress of national-level sex and age-disaggregated statistics on population, births and deaths.
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United Nations (UN) Statistics Division, 2005
Provides statistics and indicators on women and men in six specific fields of concern: population, families, health, education, work and politics and human rights - A global database of statistics and indicators on gender, population and social development for 206 countries or areas of the world
- International Women's Health Coalition, 2004
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The International Parliamentary Union (IPU), 2005
Provides participation rates of women in national parliaments around the world - Women of Our World Data Sheet, 2005Population Reference Bureau, 2005
Provides updated estimates on women's status and progress in reproductive health, education, work, and public life
Full Text (PDF 255) - An electronic database of gender statistics and indicators updated as new data become available
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UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2000
The third issue in a series of reports (the other two issued in 1991 and 1995) that looks at the status of women through the lens of statistical data and analysis. - United Nations statistics on population, health, education, labor, and power
- National Household Survey for Impact Indicators of Gender Mainstreaming on the Status of Women in Africa: Household Survey Questionnaire
ECA, 2004
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IFPRI Datasets
- Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Household- and Community-level Surveys. 2005.
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- Household and community level surveys Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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- Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)