The following materials are provided to assist researchers with applying a gender analysis to their work.

• Food Security in Practice No. 2: Using Gender Research in Development
  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.
• Gender Training Wiki
  INSTRAW, 2006
  This online resource provides access to information on gender mainstreaming, gender training opportunities and gender-related grants and scholarships.
• Gender Analysis: Alternative Paradigms
  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.
• Gender Analysis as a Research Development Tool
  International Development Research Centre, 1998
• Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture and Rural Development: A Reference Manual for Governments and Other Stakeholders
  Commonwealth 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)
• INSTRAW Sectoral Gender Training Materials
  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.
• Low Cost Approach to Gender Analysis
  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, 2003
  Designed to assist policy makers in understanding why it is important to integrate gender analysis at macro and sectoral policy levels.
  Full Text (PDF 1M)
• Tools for Gender Analysis and Social Assessment
  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 Breeding
  Nina 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 Management
  Nancy 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).
  Full Text (PDF 606K)

• The African Gender and Development Index (AGDI)
  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.
• Agricultural censuses and gender considerations: Concepts and methodologies
  FAO, 1999
• Agricultural Science & Technology Indicators (ASTI)
  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 Data
  BRIDGE, 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.
  Full Text (PDF 239K)
• The conditions and consequences of choice: Reflections on the measurement of women’s empowerment
  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.
• Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Gender Statistics Programme (GSP)
  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)
  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 .
• Gender-Sensitive Statistics for Agricultural Development
  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.
• Human Development Report 1995: Gender and Human Development
  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 Indicators
  Ruth Alsop and Nina Heinsohn, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3510, February 2005
  Full Text (PDF 503K)
• Socio-economic and gender sensitive indicators in the management of natural resources
  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 Statistics
  UN 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.
  Full Text (PDF 307K)
• Statistics and Indicators on Women and Men
  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
• Wistat Database
  A global database of statistics and indicators on gender, population and social development for 206 countries or areas of the world
• Women and HIV/AIDS: Select Facts
  International Women's Health Coalition, 2004
• Women in Parliament
  The International Parliamentary Union (IPU), 2005
  Provides participation rates of women in national parliaments around the world
• Women of Our World Data Sheet, 2005
  Population Reference Bureau, 2005
  Provides updated estimates on women's status and progress in reproductive health, education, work, and public life
  Full Text (PDF 255)
• World Bank GenderStats Database of Gender Statistics
  An electronic database of gender statistics and indicators updated as new data become available
• The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics
  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.
• WIDNET (Women in Development) Statistics
  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
  Full Text (PDF 411K)

• Ghana: Savelugu-Nanton Household Survey Dataset, 2001.
  Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Household- and Community-level Surveys. 2005.
• Egypt integrated household survey, 1997-1999
  Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Ethiopia rural household survey dataset (ERHS), 1989-1997
  Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Kenya land tenure, agricultural productivity and the environment: Suba and Laikipia Districts, 2001
  Household and community level surveys Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Bangladesh: commercial vegetable and polyculture fish production -- their impacts on income, household resource allocation, and nutrition, 1996-1997
  Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Bangladesh: Baseline data of SHAHAR Project, CARE-Bangladesh, 2000 -- slum areas of Tongi and Jessore municipalities
  Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Guatemala: strengthening and evaluation of the Hogares Comunitarios Program in Guatemala City, 1999
  Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS), 1993-1998
  Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Ghana: Accra urban food and nutrition security, 1997
  Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Malawi financial markets and household food security
  Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Pakistan panel survey, 1986-1991
  Washington, D.C. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)