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OBJECTIVES OF TRAINING

GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION Elham Allan, IASC GENCAP Training session for the WASH Sector 13 November 2013. OBJECTIVES OF TRAINING. To define what gender is. To understand how gender is practically implemented during the project cycle management.

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OBJECTIVES OF TRAINING

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  1. GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN HUMANITARIAN ACTIONElham Allan, IASC GENCAPTraining session for the WASH Sector 13 November 2013

  2. OBJECTIVES OF TRAINING • To define what gender is. • To understand how gender is practically implemented during the project cycle management. • Introduce the Gender Marker and the tool for gender equality programming - ADAPT and ACT. • Result of the Roll-out of the Gender Marker in Sudan in 2013-HWP. and performance of the WASH sector. • Tips for the meaningful inclusion of gender in WASH projects. • Share useful tools and resources

  3. DEFINING GENDER One word that comes to your mind when I say: “gender”

  4. SOCIAL DIFFERENCES NOT BIOLOGICAL

  5. GENDER ROLES?

  6. GENDER ROLES CONTINUED…

  7. Power relationshipsbetween men and women POWER RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN • Who has more mobility or freedom of movement? • Who has more decision making power? • Who has more involvement in politics or is politically excluded? • Who has more ownership rights for example, land rights?

  8. GENDER ROLES

  9. POWER AND ACCESS Unequal power relationships between men and women severely affect women’s access: • To resources • To services • To informed choices • To decision making

  10. GENDER EQUALITY PROGRAMMING In humanitarian situations, gender matters because: • Women and men respond differently • Gender roles and power dynamics can change • Women and men have different needs and concerns Hence, the different needs must be considered and analyzed in all aspects of the humanitarian response including: Needs assessment  project design  implementation  monitoring

  11. PROJECT DESIGN PHASE Three components: 1. Needs assessment  helps identify gender differences such as unequal access to services. The gender analysis should highlight different gender needs and concerns. 2. Activities  Ways to address the needs identified should be integrated into activities to fill the gabs. 3. Outcome  should capture the change that is expected for the target group after implementing the project activities.

  12. GENDER ANALYSIS IN THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT • Who is affected? • How are they affected? • What is the breakdown of the identified target group by sex and age? • Who has access to what and are there barriers to accessing services? • Does women & men participate equally in decision-making (parents-teacher association)?

  13. SEX AND AGE DISAGREGGATED DATA (SADD) • What are the demographics by SADD: # of female/male/child headed households, # refugees by sex and age, # displaced by sex and age, # unaccompanied/separated children and adolescent # of persons with disabilities by sex and age, # of pregnant and lactating women, # of elderly men and women

  14. THE PRICE: NEGLECTING SADD • interventions fail or are misguided • miss some of the most vulnerable • deepen pre-crisis inequalities

  15. ADAPT AND ACT Tool for Gender Equality Programming Analyze gender differences. Design services to meet needs of all. Access for women, girls, boys and men. Participate equally. Train women and men equally. and Address GBV in sector programs. Collect, analyze and report sex and age disaggregated data. Target actions based on gender analysis. Coordinate actions with all partners.

  16. GENDER MARKER A SIMPLE and PRACTICAL tool; • To measure/track inclusion of gender and GBV in projects. • To enable humanitarian teams to ensure women and men, boys and girls benefit equally from assistance. • Requirement in humanitarian appeals. Or more accurately, the “Who benefits marker”

  17. GENDER MARKER CODING

  18. GENDER MARKER CODING

  19. GENDER MARKER CODING

  20. GENDER MARKER CODING

  21. GENDER MARKER CODING

  22. Sudan HWP-MYR 2013

  23. Tips for the mainstreaming of gender in Needs analysis • What are the rolesof women, girls, boys and men in collecting, handling, managing, storing and treating water? • Does women and men have equal access to decision forums such as community WASH committees? • What are the protection risks for women, girls, boys and men related to water and sanitation? What is needed to ensure that access to and use of water points, toilets and bathing facilities is safe, especially for girls and women? • Are water points, toilets and bathing facilities located and designed to ensure privacy and security? • Are the physical designs for water points and toilets appropriate to the number and needs of women, girls, boys and men who will use them? (The Sphere Handbook, 2011)

  24. Tips for the mainstreaming of gender in activities Women and men equally and meaningfully involved in decision-making and programme design, implementation and monitoring Equal access to services and facilities is routinely monitored Women and men trained in the use and maintenance of facilities Equal access to cash for work opportunities Communal latrine and bathing cubicles for women, girls, boys and men sited in safe locations, culturally appropriate, provide privacy

  25. gender marker IASC improving humanitarian effectiveness Tips for the mainstreaming of gender in outcomes • Decision-making and responsibility for water and sanitation are being shared equally by beneficiary women and men • Safety of WASH facilities has been enhanced: peer monitors report a decrease in rape and sexual violence and harassment against women/girls, boys/men using or travelling to/from WASH facilities since the launch of the project. • Evidence of routine hand-washing by women, girls, boys and men. • [X Number] NGO implementing teams have demonstrated greater capacity to integrate gender issues into WASH emergency response and preparedness (% M/F trainees).

  26. MINIMUM COMMITMENTS – ZERO GENDER BLIND PROJECTS!

  27. WHAT CAN THE SECTORS AND PARTNERS DO? 1. Tools: Review assessment & programming tools to ensure gender sensitivity 2. Projects review and prioritization: • Ensure coding accuracy, • Prioritize projects with codes 2a/2b • Request project designers to deepen gender analysis in their projects where necessary 3.Monitoring includes the collection and analysis of sex and age disaggregated data and verifying if IP are doing what they said they would do on gender. 4. Accountability: Minimum Commitments partners are accountable to (no gender blind projects!)

  28. MINIMUM COMMITMENTS • Beneficiary selection criteria need to be defined and monitored throughout the project (not only for servicesbut training also). • Ensure meaningful participation of women in decision-making (not only as members of established committees but also in leadership positions) • Collect, use and analyze sex and age disaggregated data • Ensure participatory consultation with (all) beneficiaries during needs ass, implementation and monitoring. • Ensure assessment and monitoring teams are gender balanced to be capable of conducting both mixed and separate group discussions with men and women and to allow needs and concerns on gender issues to be openly articulated.

  29. E-learning on Gender in Humanitarian Action and the gender tip sheets: www.humanitarianresponse.info/themes/gender/the-iasc-gender-marker. Gender Handbook: https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/document/gender-handbook) GBV Guidelines: https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/document/gbv-guidelines-2005 ) are on the webpage of gender resources... We Sex and Age Matter Study: http://www.globalprotectioncluster.org/_assets/files/tools_and_guidance/age_gender_diversity/Report_Sex_Age_Matter_2011_EN.pdf

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