Gender Toolkit: Integrating Gender in Programming for Every Child in South Asia

The seven principles are: 1) apply a gender lens to existing structures, processes, and culture; 2) recognise needs and interests of women and men, girls and boys as different and equal; 3) women and men work together to rebalance access and control over resources and power; 4) political will, support, and commitment from the top to lead and authorise process; 5) ownership and commitment by all stakeholders; 6) Gender adviser/team/focal point to support and promote gender skills and approaches but overall responsibility for gender mainstreaming and implementation lies with all staff; and 7) all staff involved in implementation need to be gender-aware.

Step 1: Assess the manifestations of child right shortfalls and inequities in child outcomes guided by gender analysis questions Step 2: Analysing the causes of inequities and identifying opportunities across the enabling environment, supply, quality, and demand of services. Step 3: Analysing multiple and overlapping deprivations experienced by girls and boys through stakeholder consultation and gender analysis frameworks.

Step 1: Develop a theory of change. Step 2: Formulate a Logical Framework that considers four different levels (individual, household, community and society) of intervention. Step 3: Develop an M&E framework with gender-sensitive indicators. Step 4: Use gender-responsive budgeting to plan for human and financial resources.

Step 1: Conduct gender equality training to ensure stakeholders have adequate knowledge and capacity. Step 2: Raise awareness of gender equality throughout the implementation process. Step 3: Go beyond the numbers and take action to shift traditional gender roles. Step 4: Ensuring that the process is inclusive and participatory, including by engaging men and boys, as well as planning activities that account for gendered divisions of labour and time use.

Step 1: Gather information using tools surveys/questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, document reviews, and field visits. Step 2: Analyse the data disaggregated by sex and age using gender analysis questions to assess gender equality outcomes. Step 3: Adjust the program if necessary. Step 4: Use a gender assessment scale to ensure the program is not doing harm and is gender transformative. Step 5: Use gender analysis questions to assess whether gender was integrated into the evaluation process. Step 6: Use the UNICEF GEM to measure the extent to which intermediate results that use program budgets contribute to GE.

Step 1: Tailor the message to the target audience and use multiple dissemination channels that reach women and men, girls and boys. Step 2: Monitor reception and impact.