This report focuses on the consideration of gender in the poverty assessment tools developed by the University of Maryland's Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS Center). The report provides recommendations for how these tools may be adapted to assess the presence of intra-household poverty and inequality. The report's objective is to draw attention to the presence of intra-household inequality and develop a menu of options for developing and testing methods to assess intra-household poverty.

This report summarizes a set of gender integration training sessions offered to USAID/Washington agriculture staff, mission agriculture officers, and partners between June 2004 and June 2005. The report also shares the results of the training evaluations, provides recommendations for future trainings, and provides the materials used in the trainings.

Women in development indefinite quantity contract (WID IQC)

This is the FY09 3rd quarter report of the Short-Term Technical Assistance & Training (STTA&T) project. This report covers April through June 2009.

This document reports on DevTech's implementation of three gender training workshops for the USAID Missions in Africa. The workshops, held in Accra, Pretoria, and Addis Ababa in 2004, emphasized the economic growth, agriculture, and trade sectors. The document discusses the participant evaluations, shares the technical and institutional lessons learned from the trainings, and provides recommendations to help improve future trainings.

This PowerPoint presentation, "Gender Mainstreaming and Integration: A Workshop for USAID/Benin Staff," was given at the USAID/Benin Gender Committee training held in June 2002.

This document summarizes a training program on gender integration for USAID/Benin staff, which was held in June 2002 and implemented by the Women in Development Technical Assistance Project (WIDTECH) project. The training focused on integrating gender considerations into the Benin Country Program. In addition, trainers helped USAID/Benin develop a Gender Strategy Implementation Plan, the purpose of which was to help effectively integrate gender considerations into all relevant Mission activities.

This report shares the findings of an independent external evaluation of the Ethiopian Management of Participatory Opportunities for Women in Extension and Research (EMPOWER) Program. EMPOWER was an agriculture technology transfer and gender mainstreaming project focused on food security and enhanced gender relationships in the small-holder sector of rural Ethiopia. Part I of the report contains the executive summary, introduction, and chapters one and two.

This report shares the findings of an independent external evaluation of the Ethiopian Management of Participatory Opportunities for Women in Extension and Research (EMPOWER) Program. EMPOWER was an agriculture technology transfer and gender mainstreaming project focused on food security and enhanced gender relationships in the small-holder sector of rural Ethiopia. Part II of the report contains chapters three through five.

This report shares the findings of an independent external evaluation of the Ethiopian Management of Participatory Opportunities for Women in Extension and Research (EMPOWER) Program. EMPOWER was an agriculture technology transfer and gender mainstreaming project focused on food security and enhanced gender relationships in the small-holder sector of rural Ethiopia. Part III of the report contains chapters six and seven.

This report shares the findings of an independent external evaluation of the Ethiopian Management of Participatory Opportunities for Women in Extension and Research (EMPOWER) Program. EMPOWER was an agriculture technology transfer and gender mainstreaming project focused on food security and enhanced gender relationships in the small-holder sector of rural Ethiopia. Part IV of the report contains the annexes.

This French language document provides an overview of the West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI) Gender Mainstreaming Project, which was implemented in 2004-2005 in Ghana, Mali, and Niger. The document also shares lessons learned throughout the various stages of the project and concludes with a series of recommendations for the next phase of the project.

This document reports on a series of WAWI gender mainstreaming implementation workshops held in in May/June 2005 in Ghana, Mali, and Niger. The general objective of the Mali and Niger workshops was to reinforce the capacities of WAWI partners and their colleagues in government agencies to use gender analysis and gender-sensitive project planning and monitoring tools in their normal water and sanitation activities in ways that would foster gender-balanced participation and project sustainability. In Ghana, the basic objective was to build the capacity of partners to integrate gender concerns into all aspects of WAWI activities.

This document provides an overview of the WAWI Gender Mainstreaming Project, which was implemented in 2004-2005 in Ghana, Mali, and Niger. The document also shares lessons learned throughout the various stages of the project and concludes with a series of recommendations for the next phase of the project.

This French-language study aims to assess the level of Malian women's access to information through radio as a whole and to radio sets in particular. It also looks into Malian women's listening practices, unfulfilled information needs, favorite programs, and the possible effects and impacts of radio on their level of access to information. Among the study's findings are that access to radio is not yet widespread among Malian women and that their level of possession of radios is very low. Appedix D, a study of gender and the radio production sector in Mali, is in English.

This French language document provides an overview of the West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI) Gender Mainstreaming Project, which was implemented in 2004-2005 in Ghana, Mali, and Niger. The document also shares lessons learned throughout the various stages of the project and concludes with a series of recommendations for the next phase of the project.

This document reports on a series of WAWI gender mainstreaming implementation workshops held in in May/June 2005 in Ghana, Mali, and Niger. The general objective of the Mali and Niger workshops was to reinforce the capacities of WAWI partners and their colleagues in government agencies to use gender analysis and gender-sensitive project planning and monitoring tools in their normal water and sanitation activities in ways that would foster gender-balanced participation and project sustainability. In Ghana, the basic objective was to build the capacity of partners to integrate gender concerns into all aspects of WAWI activities.

This document provides an overview of the WAWI Gender Mainstreaming Project, which was implemented in 2004-2005 in Ghana, Mali, and Niger. The document also shares lessons learned throughout the various stages of the project and concludes with a series of recommendations for the next phase of the project.

This report examines the relative strengths and weaknesses of the Electoral Support Consortium (ESC), which was established to encourage voters in Namibia to participate in the elections and help these voters make informed voting decisions. Although the focus of this consultancy was to determine to what extent the ESC has been integrating gender mainstreaming and addressing disability and socially marginalized populations, this report, out of necessity, also gives an overview of the ESC and the Namibian social environment within which the ESC operates.

This French language document provides an overview of the West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI) Gender Mainstreaming Project, which was implemented in 2004-2005 in Ghana, Mali, and Niger. The document also shares lessons learned throughout the various stages of the project and concludes with a series of recommendations for the next phase of the project.

This document reports on a series of WAWI gender mainstreaming implementation workshops held in in May/June 2005 in Ghana, Mali, and Niger. The general objective of the Mali and Niger workshops was to reinforce the capacities of WAWI partners and their colleagues in government agencies to use gender analysis and gender-sensitive project planning and monitoring tools in their normal water and sanitation activities in ways that would foster gender-balanced participation and project sustainability. In Ghana, the basic objective was to build the capacity of partners to integrate gender concerns into all aspects of WAWI activities.

This document provides an overview of the WAWI Gender Mainstreaming Project, which was implemented in 2004-2005 in Ghana, Mali, and Niger. The document also shares lessons learned throughout the various stages of the project and concludes with a series of recommendations for the next phase of the project.

This report presents the findings, conclusions, and recommendations that emerged from a gender assessment carried out for USAID/South Africa from August 4-24, 2004. The assessment is based on a review of background documentation as well as meetings with Mission staff members, interviews with USAID implementing partners, NGOs, and Government of South Africa officials, and visits to selected field sites. The goal of the report is to show that gender analysis can, in some cases, be easily used to make small changes in activities so that they acknowledge gender issues.

This document reports on gender training and technical assistance given to the South Africa Mission in October 2005. A four-person team of gender trainers worked with Mission staff from Strategic Objective teams, regional teams, and support offices. The team conducted training sessions on gender awareness and gender sector skills and facilitated working sessions leading to sector-specific Action Plans. Appendices: PD-ACG-390

These are appendices to the report on gender training and technical assistance given to the South Africa Mission in October 2005. The appendices contain an overview of the training and technical assistance, reports and actions plans, and training materials and tools. Main report: PD-ACG-389

This document presents the results of an assessment of the Regional Center for Southern Africa (RCSA) Mission's strategic objectives with respect to how gender issues could be addressed. The assessment was conducted under an Agency directive that strategic planning should address two questions: (1) how will gender relations affect the achievement of sustainable results; and (2) how will proposed results affect the relative status of women. The assessment covers the topics of HIV/AIDS, economic opportunity and competitiveness, democracy and governance, integrated river basin management, rural livelihoods, and RCSA services and accountability.

This report presents the findings of a gender assessment carried out for USAID/Tanzania between May 19, 2003 and June 6, 2003, as well as a draft gender plan of action. USAID/Tanzania requested the assessment to identify key gender-based constraints and ways to address them in the design of its new country strategic plan and new and/or continuing programs in health, HIV/AIDS, economic growth/agriculture, natural resource management, and democracy and governance. The assessment was based on a review of background documentation, meetings with Mission staff members, interviews with USAID implementing partners, and visits to selected field sites and selected local NGO and Government of Tanzania officials.

Women in development indefinite quantity contract (WID IQC)

This report describes the methodology, content, and outcomes of three gender training workshops that USAID/Uganda organized for its staff, partners, field trainers, and farmer organizations in February 2006. The report also presents lessons learned, facilitators' reflections, and recommendations for future trainings. The purpose of the workshops was to train staff and trainers on how to incorporate a message of gender into their everyday trainings.

This report evaluates the work of USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2005. OTI committed $46.6 million of an overall $70 million Afghanistan budget to project grants that supported a range of activities, including the emerging political process laid out in the 2001 Bonn Agreement, civic education, government-facility rehabilitation, independent media, community infrastructure, women's resource centers, schools and kindergartens, and international sector specialists. The evaluation finds that OTI programming should have more systematically supported the participation of women in the political and decision-making process, since in the cases where it did, the results benefited Afghan society as a whole and stimulated greater social debate on the roles of women and the future of the country.

This report explores the gender issues, impacts, and mainstreaming opportunities specific to USAID/Bangladesh's rural energy programs. Its recommendations aim to to ensure that more gender-sensitive strategies are adopted by energy professionals to meet the sustainable energy needs and priorities of both men and women stakeholders in rural Bangladesh. The study focuses on the work of the USAID/Bangladesh Energy Team's U.S. contractor, the National Rural Electrification Cooperative International Ltd., and three Bangladeshi partners: the Dhaka-based Rural Electrification Board, the rural electric co-operative Palli Bidyut Samities, and the NGO Grameen Shakti.

This gender analysis is the first volume in a two volume series; the gender assessment for USAID/Cambodia is volume two (PN-ADF-576). This report analyzes gender roles and relationships in the context of Cambodia and in relation to the scope of USAID/Cambodia's Strategic Plan for 2005-2010. It analyzes gender issues in the health, education, and governance sectors, which are the Mission's three focus areas.

This gender assessment is the second volume in a two volume series; the gender analysis is volume one (PN-ADF-575). This report uses the volume one gender analysis to examine the USAID/Cambodia portfolio, highlight gender integration in on-going activities, and suggest potential avenues to strengthen gender mainstreaming in the future. It focuses on USAID/Cambodia's three focus areas: health, education, and governance.

Women in development indefinite quantity contract (WID IQC)

Focusing on the new USAID Country Strategic Plan for the FY 2003-2007 period, this report provides an overview of Sri Lanka's gender context and discusses the gender issues for each of the Mission's four Strategic Objectives. Recommendations include specific activities, both mainstreamed adaptations of existing activities and gender-focused ones. It also includes suggestions for possible indicators as well as data collection and analysis considerations.

This report, based on two weeks of in-country interviews and an extensive review of available documents, assesses the critical gender issues, resources, and options for USAID/Timor-Leste. The report provides an overview of the gender context for Timor-Leste, as well as the gender issues specific to the Mission's programs. It considers how gender relationships may impact program results, as well as how specific activities may affect the status of women. Its recommendations include specific ideas for both gender-mainstreamed and gender-focused activities, indicators, and monitoring.

This report describes the methodology, content, and outcomes of a gender mainstreaming workshop for USAID/Armenia's health projects and associated NGO and Ministry of Health staff. The report also provides the materials used in the training and the results of a participant evaluation. The purpose of the workshop was to enhance the gender integration skills of Project NOVA (in Armenian, "Innovations in Support of Reproductive Health"), the Eye Care Project, the Academy for Educational Development, Primary Health Care Reform, and World Vision staff and local counterparts.

USAID has undertaken this gender assessment to gain a better understanding of gender issues across all sectors of Azerbaijan. The report presents the findings of key gender issues and offers USAID/Azerbaijan recommendations for better gender integration in general as well as for the economic, democratic, and social sectors. The report finds that gender-based violence is a hidden epidemic in Azerbaijan and recommends that the Mission support domestic violence awareness and protection activities, including emergency shelters.

This report presents the findings of a gender assessment conducted during two weeks in January and February 2005. The report includes key recommendations for USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina to undertake in order to strengthen its gender mainstreaming efforts. The goal of the assessment is to outline key gender issues and constraints in Bosnia and Herzegovina to be addressed through existing or planned programming.

This report presents the results of a gender assessment carried out in Georgia in March 2003 at the request of the USAID/Georgia Mission. It provides a summary of gender relations in Georgia, an analysis of gender integration in the Mission's current and future strategic framework and program portfolio, and recommendations on how the Mission can better mainstream gender in its activities, policies, and procedures. The report analyzes gender in the context of economic growth and private enterprise, as well as trafficking in persons and domestic violence, which are both serious problems in Georgia.

The purpose of this gender consultancy was to 1) analyze the USAID/Macedonia Mission project portfolio for improvements in gender integration and 2) conduct gender integration training for staff and partner personnel. The recommendations in this report are based on a review of relevant documents, in-country meetings, and trainings conducted from January 19 - February 8, 2004.

The purpose of the USAID/Serbia and Montenegro Gender Assessment is to identify key gender issues and gender constraints that need to be addressed in the Mission's proposed programs and offer recommendations on how the it can achieve greater gender integration in its programs. The report presents background on gender in Serbia and Montenegro and findings of key gender issues, risks, and opportunities and relevant NGOs and public institutions. It offers general recommendations focused on operational gender integration, followed by specific recommendations by strategic objective area (economic policy and finance, democracy and governance, and general development).

This gender assessment was requested by USAID/Russia to help it ensure that gender was integrated into its strategy/vision statement and to help it draft a gender action plan. The report's recommendations are based on a review of relevant documents, in-country meetings, and training conducted from June 20 - July 23, 2004. Recommendations for improved gender integration include 1) an action plan of operational recommendations for improved gender mainstreaming in compliance with USAID's gender requirements, 2) recommendations for future technical assistance and training, and 3) gender issues and opportunities identified by sector for consideration by activity managers and sector-specific teams.

The purpose of the USAID/Serbia and Montenegro Gender Assessment is to identify key gender issues and gender constraints that need to be addressed in the Mission's proposed programs and offer recommendations on how the it can achieve greater gender integration in its programs. The report presents background on gender in Serbia and Montenegro and findings of key gender issues, risks, and opportunities and relevant NGOs and public institutions. It offers general recommendations focused on operational gender integration, followed by specific recommendations by strategic objective area (economic policy and finance, democracy and governance, and general development).

This report is intended as a resource guide to support the USAID/Bolivia Mission in its continuing efforts to ensure that gender and sociocultural issues are integrated into new activities under its 2005-2009 strategy. The report provides: 1) statistical information on gender and ethnic disparities in economic and social sectors; 2) comments on the strategy by sector with suggestions for strengthening gender and sociocultural inclusion; 3) a summary of project-level interventions that support gender and sociocultural inclusion; 4) published and web-based resources on gender and indigenous issues by sector; and 5) Spanish and English training materials used in an August 2004 workshop.

The Gender Assessment for USAID/Colombia was prepared in anticipation of the 2007 Operational Plan. The Mission asked that the assessment focus on gender in relation to the armed conflict and its effects in five programming areas: justice, human rights (with emphasis on domestic violence), alternative development, internally displaced populations, and demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants. The assessment provides an analysis of gender relations and potential constraints in each program area and offers recommendations on how the Mission might address issues of gender and conflict within these programs.

This report assesses gender relations and issues in the El Salvador Mission's program as part of the process for developing the El Salvador Country Plan for FY 2004-2008.  The report also offers recommendations on how the Mission can achieve greater gender integration.

This document, written in both English and Spanish, reports on a consultancy to implement the recommendations contained in the 2004 Gender Assessment Report on USAID/El Salvador's programs and activities, especially with regard to greater gender integration.

The purpose of this gender assessment is to provide an overview of the key gender issues and constraints in Guatemala, to assess the USAID/Guatemala Mission's portfolio, and to recommend how the Mission might develop a Gender Plan of Action and address gender considerations in its programs.

This gender assessment was conducted as part of the preparation for the USAID/Guyana 2004-2008 Country Strategic Plan. The report includes an overview of factors affecting the status of women in Guyana, key gender issues in the country, and government, NGO, and donor resources directed to these issues. It then focuses directly on USAID/Guyana's strategic program areas, identifying gender issues specific to these programs and making recommendations for the process of gender mainstreaming in the strategy and subsequent activities.

The Gender Assessment for USAID/Haiti was carried out in March 2006, including two-weeks of in-country consultation. Section 1 presents basic development indicators, disaggregated by sex, to measure the relative status of men and women. Section 2 outlines gender dimensions in Haiti in terms of the roles of men and women, patterns of decision-making and control, and relative legal and social status; this section also identifies the broad implications of this analysis for development programming. Section 3 presents a gender assessment of USAID/Haiti's current programs, while Section 4 addresses anticipated future program directions.

This gender assessment was developed as a part of the process for defining the Honduras Mission's strategy for FY 2004-2010. The assessment provides a baseline overview of key gender issues and resources and initial guidance on gender integration in USAID strategy areas. The gender action plan makes recommendations on how to move forward from this overview to take account of gender differences as a factor in the USAID programming cycle.

The purpose of this Gender Assessment, through the assistance of the Office of Women in Development, is to help the USAID Mexico Environment Program and its NGO partners build stronger linkages between environmental issues, economic growth, and gender equity. The specific goal of the assessment was to understand key gender issues affecting poverty and, as a result, natural resource use in local communities. A specific focus has been placed on the activities of Conservation International's Usumacinta Watershed Management Program in Chiapas as well as ecotourism activities conducted through this program.

This gender assessment for the USAID/Nicaragua program was requested as a part of the development of the new strategic plan for FY 2004 to FY 2009. The purpose of the assessment is to provide an overview of gender issues in Nicaragua in the three strategic objective areas (economic growth, good governance/civil society, and health/education) and to make recommendations for integration of gender concerns in the Mission strategy and activities.

This document outlines actions and decisions for each USAID/Nicaragua Strategic Objective team and the Mission Gender Committee and provides recommendations for the Mission about potential next steps for gender integration.

Appendix in Spanish

The Gender Assessment for USAID/Panama was completed in February 2004 as part of the preparation of the new Country Plan for 2004-2008. The report includes an overview of factors affecting the status of women in Panama, key gender issues in the country, and the government, NGO, and donor resources directed at these issues. It then focuses directly on USAID/Panama strategic program areas to identify gender issues specific to these programs and partners and to make recommendations for gender mainstreaming in the Country Plan and projects.

The Gender Assessment and Analysis for USAID/Paraguay was prepared in anticipation of a Strategic Plan to guide Mission programs after 2005. The assessment includes a discussion of gender concerns in the on-going activities as well as considerations in the programs under the subsequent strategy. Recommendations are offered for increased gender mainstreaming in each of the four Strategic Objective areas (economic growth, democracy and governance, health, and environment). In the concluding sections, a series of overall recommendations are suggested, which could serve as the basis for development of a Gender Action Plan for the Mission.

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This report analyzes USAID/Jordan's portfolio with regard to gender. It is divided into five parts:

1. an overview of the current socio-economic context of Jordan and the crosscutting issues that form challenges for the country in the coming decade;
2. an overview of the current USAID requirements for incorporating gender into USAID programs;
   
3. a discussion of the status of Jordanian women;
4. a discussion of the gender issues in USAID/Jordan's water, health, and economic growth programs and recommendations for each program area; and
5. a delineation of the next steps for gender mainstreaming for USAID/Jordan.

This gender assessment provides a baseline overview of gender issues pertinent to USAID/Morocco's planned target area under its 2004-2008 strategy -- increasing economic opportunity. This report aimed to serve as a starting point for gender mainstreaming under the country strategy and to provide the Mission with the appropriate questions to ask when developing Performance Monitoring Plans (PMPs), designing programs, implementing activities, and monitoring results. With Morocco expected to expand its trade through the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., such questions were intended to assist the Mission and the Government of Morocco in assessing to what extent gender-based constraints hampered the development of key industries and the impacts of different policies and investment strategies on the relative status of women.