The

Oxfam
Gender
Training
Manual
Suzanne Williams
with Janet Seed
and Adelina Mwau
With contributions from
Oxfam staff and others

Oxfam
(UK and Ireland)
First published by Oxfam UK and Ireland 1994

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Oxfam UK and Ireland 1994

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Contents

Acknowledgements x

Foreword xi

Preface xiti

A l A guide to this manual 1

A2 Key concepts 4

B Facilitators' guidelines 15

C.I Training techniques, icebreakers and energisers 39

C.2 Getting started 47

1 Introductions
1 Meaning of names 30 mins 51
2 Admiring the opposite sex 50 mins 53
3 Sharing our experiences of gender lhr 55
4 Who am I Where do I come from? 45 mins-1 hr 57
5 Life story 1-VAhrs 59

2 Expectations
6 Expectations, hopes and fears lhr 61
(Handout 1 Pre-course questionnaire) 63
7 Ground rules 15 mins 65
8 Introduction to the workshop 20 mins 67
9 Objectives jigsaw lhr 69

3 Sharing work experience

10 Sharing work experience l-2hrs 71
(Handout 2 Pre-course questionnaire) 73

4 Consensus on development
11 What is development? 2 hrs 75
12 Community development lhr 77
13 The liberator lhr 79

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C.3 Gender awareness and self-awareness 81

1 Building gender awareness

14 Choosing the sex of your child 30-40 mins 83
15 'My organisation is a
male/female organisation' 40 mins 85
16 The gender game 30 mins 87
(Handout 3 Statements about gender) 89
17 What is gender? 30 mins-1'Ahrs 91
(Handout 4 Why gender is a development issue) 93
(Handout 5 Unpacking gender) 99
18 A baby is bom 50 mins 101
19 Gender circles 30 mins 103
20 Choose your spot 1-1'Ahrs 105
21 The two baskets 50 mins 107

2 Self-awareness for women and men

22 World upside down lhr 109
23 Millie's mother's red dress lhr 113
(Handout 6 Millie's mother's red dress) 115
24 A Hindu story Radha 30 mins 117
(Handout 7 Radha's story) 119
25 What are male/female stereotypes? 1-1'Ahrs 121
(Handout 8 A masculine boy) 123
(Handout 9 Dealing in used women) 125
26 Stereotypes: self-disclosure 45 mins-1 hr 127
27 Breaking the chain 30 mins 129
(Handout 10 Readings) 131
28 Man to man lhr 135
(Handout 11 Action checklist on sexism) 137
29 Feminist poker 50 mins-1'Ahrs 139
(Handout 12 Women are oppressed because...) 141
30 Becoming a man 30-40 mins 143
(Handout 13 Sentence completion) 145
31 Violence against women 50mins-l'Ahrs 147
(Handout 14 Our experience) 149
(Handout 15 Biblical background notes) 151
32 Rape 3-4hrs 155
(Handout 16 Solicitor gets three years) 159
(Handout 17 A night of madness) 161
(Handout 18 Myths and realities about rape) 163

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C.4 Gender roles and needs 165
3 3 The story of Joan and John 40-50 mins 167
34 Quiz on roles and activities of women and men 30-40 mins 169
(Handout 19 Quiz) 173
35 Myths about women and men, and their effects l'A-2hrs 175
36 The 24-hour day l'Ahrs 179
(Handout 20 Timesheet) 181
(Handout 21 MrMoyo) 183
(Handout 22 The lie of the land) 185
37 Analysing roles and needs 1'Ahrs 187
(Handout 23 Types of work/triple role) 189
(Handout 24 Practical and strategic gender needs) 191
(Handout 25 Examples of roles and needs) 193
38 Balloons: practical and strategic gender needs lhr 195

C.5 W o m e n in the world 197

39 Women in our countries 2-3 hrs 199
40 Facts about women and men 40 mins-l'Ahrs 201
(Handout 26 Mortality rates of girls) 203
(Handout 27 Maternal mortality rates) 205
(Handout 28 Sources of data) 207
(Handout 29 Why are women invisible in statistics?) 209

C.6 Gender and development 213

41 Wrong assumptions 35 mins 217
42 Statements and policy approaches PA hrs 219
(Handout 30 Statement sheet) 223
(Handout 31 Policy approaches) 225
(Handout 32 Statements: diamond ranking) 227
43 Empowerment and participation lhr 229
(Handout 33 Power and empowerment) 233
44 Visions of empowerment 1-l'Ahrs 235
45 Finding the balance lhr 237
(Handout 34 Finding the balance) 239
(Handout 35 Ranking exercise) 241
46 Development and relief: common elements 45 mins-lhr 243
(Handout 36 Gender and emergencies) 245

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C.7 Gender-sensitive appraisal and planning 247

1 Analytical frameworks
47 Moser method 2 hrs 253
(Handout 37 Gender planning summary table) 255
48 The Harvard Framework 2-2'Ahrs 257
(Handout 38 Programme planning .-forestry in Indonesia) 259
(Handout 39 Harvard analytical framework) 267
(Handout 40 Activities profile) 269
(Handout 41 Access and control profile) 271
(Handout 42 People-oriented analytical framework) 273
(Handout 43 Activities analysis) 275
(Handout 44 Resource use and control) 277
(Handout 45 Determinants analysis) 279
(Handout 46 Women refugees in Bangladesh) 281
49 Comparison of methods lhr 287
50 Longwe Method 2 hrs 289
(Handout 47 Gender awareness) 291
(Handout 48 Charts for project gender profile) 301
(Handout 49 Gender profile of country programme) 303
51 Gender awareness in projects 45 mins-1 hr 305
(Handout 50 Gender awareness in project planning) 307
52 Mappping for Mars 2 hrs 313
53 Bangladesh maps 25 mins 315
(Handout 51 Bangladesh maps) 317
54 Checklists 319
(Handout 52 Harvard method checklist) 321
(Handout 53 Check list for disaster relief) 325
(Handout 54 Integrating a gender perspective) 329
(Handout 55 Checklist for development projects) 331
(Handout 56 Women's status criteria) 335
55 Design a project l'A-2hrs 337

2 Case studies
56 Using case studies 1-2 hrs 339
(Handout 57 Case study: Ngwee nutrition group) 341
(Handout 58 Case study: Mozambican refugees) 343
(Handout 59 Designing case studies) 347
57 Mwea rice scheme l'A-2hrs 351
(Handout 60 Mwea rice scheme Part 1) 353
(Handout 61 Mwea rice scheme Part 2) 355
58 Mini case studies 40 mins 357
(Handout 62 Mini case studies) 359
59 Women in a Sudanese refugee camp 1'Ahrs 361
(Handout 63 Meeting with women Part 1) 363

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 (Handout 64 Meeting with women Part 2) 365
(Handout 65 Meeting with women Part 3) 367

C.8 Gender and global issues 369

1 Gender and conflict

60 The impact of conflict 2-2'Ahrs 371
(Handout 66 Uganda case study) 373
(Handout 67 Somalia case study) 311
(Handout 68 Identifying women's needs) 381
(Handout 69 Women's issues in conflict) 383
61 Drawing lessons from case studies 1 hr 385
62 Capacities and vulnerabilities analysis l'Ato2hrs 387
(Handout 70 Capacities and vulnerabilities analysis) 389
(Handout 71 Charts for CVA) 393
(Handout 72 El Salvador refugees) 395
63 Timeline 1 hr 401
(Handout 73 Case study: Lebanon) 403
(Handout 74 Timeline) 407
(Handout 75 Note on the use of timelines) 409
64 Debate on gender and conflict 1 hr 411

2 Gender and environment

65 Gender and environment myths 1-1'Ahrs 413
(Handout 76 Gender and natural resource management) 415
66 Downstream effects 45 mins-1'Ahrs 419
(Handout 77 Impacts of interventions) 421
(Handout 78 Downstream effects) 423
67 Drawing livelihoods 1 hr 425
3 Gender and economic crisis
68 Structural adjustment 1-1'Ahrs All
(Handout 79 Debt and structural adjustment) 429
(Handout 80 Impact of strudctural adjustment on women) 431
69 The debt web lhr20mins 433
(Handout 81A debt web) 435
70 The Shamba and Mama Florence ihrlOmins 437
(Handout 82 The Shamba) 439
(Handout 83 Mama Florence) 441
(Handout 84 Case study: Bolivia) 445
4 Gender and culture
71 A cautionary tale Ihr 447
(Handout 85 Working with women Part 1 The tale, 449
(Handout 86 Part 2 The outcome) 451

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72 Creation story 1'Ahrs 453
(Handout 87 Biblical background notes) 455
73 Chains that bind us 1'Ahrs 457
(Handout 88 Our experience) 459
(Handout 89 Biblical background notes) 461

C.9 Working with women and men 463

1 Listening
74 Distortion of message 40 mins 465
75 Listening skills 35 mins 467
(Handout 90 Good and bad listening) 469
76 Listening to women 2 hrs 471
77 Did you know she knows a lot? 1'Ahrs 473
(Handout 91 What does she know about...) 475

2 Working with women and men.

78 Working to include women 3-4 hrs All
(Handout 92 Briefing for role play) 481
79 Working with women and men on gender 1'Ahrs 483
80 Village meeting role play 2-3hrs 485
(Handouts 93 to 99: Map of village and role cards) 489-501
81 Working with partners on gender 2 hrs 503
(Handout 100 Burma case study) 505
(Handout 101 Philippines case study) 509
82 Finding out about women lhr. 515
83 Positive action 1'Ahrs 517
(Handout 102 Working with project partners) 519

CIO Communicating gender 521

84 Images 1-1'Ahrs 523
(Handout 103 Images) 525
(Handout 104 Afterword) 527
(Handout 105 Sample images) 529
85 Representing communities we work with 30 mins-1 hr 533
86 What do you want to say ? 20-30 mins. 535
(Handout 106 Oxfam draft paper on communications) 537
(Handout 107 EC/NGO code of conduct) 539
87 Critique of materials 45 mins-1 hr 545
88 Construct an image 30 mins 547
89 Publicity design 1-2 hours 549
(Handout 108 Copadeba Parti) 553

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 (Handout 109 Copadeba Part 2) 555

C.ll Strategies for change 557

90 Preparing for planning 30 mins 559

91 Vision l-2hrs 561
92 Sculpture: What needs to change? 40 mins 565
93 Maseno West: impact evaluation Ihr 567
(Handout 110 Maseno West gender training) 569
94 Setting priorities Ihr 573
(Handout 111 Priorities statements) 575
95 Introducing gender to our organisations 40 mins 577
96 SWOT analysis 2hrs 579
(Handout 112 SWOT analysis) 581
(Handout 113 SWOT analysis chart) 583
97 Recommendations for integrating gender l'Ahrs 585
98 Action plans l'/ihrs 587

C.12 Evaluations 589

99 Individual responses 30 mins 591

(Handout 114 Sample evaluation form) 593
100 Creative evaluation 3 hrs 595
101 Mountain monitoring and evaluation 597
(Handout 115 Mountain evaluation) 599
102 Trio evaluation Ihr 601
(Handout 116 Questions for trio evaluation) 603
103 Evaluation questionnaire 2 hrs 605
(Handout 117 Evaluation questionnaire) 609

Resources
1 Background reading 613
2 Training resources 616
3 Gender and development training resources 618
4 Videos 623
5 Organisations and networks 626

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Acknowledgements

This manual is the result of the work of gender trainers all over the world, over many
years. The majority of the activities presented here have been used by Oxfam
trainers in workshops and training courses in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the
Middle East, or in courses run in the UK for Oxfam staff. Many of these activies
were developed by Oxfam staff; many more have been used and adapted by so many
trainers over the years that it is impossible to trace their original sources. However,
wherever we have been able to identify the source, we have always cited it. Thanks
are due to gender trainers who sent us activities specifically for this Manual: they are
Carola Carbojal, Sheelu Francis, Michelle Friedman, Irene Guijt and Alice
Welbourn.

Thanks are also due to those who read and commented on the early drafts Judy
El-Bushra, Sheelu Francis, Michelle Friedman, Irene Guijt, Naila Kabeer, Itziar
Lozano, Nicky May, Eugenia Piza-Lopez, Janet Sly and especially Bridget Walker.
We are grateful for the feedback from Irungu Houghton, Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira,
Wambui Kimathi, Masheti Masinjila, Anne Obura and Dutea Onyango, who
attended a three-day readers' workshop on the Manual in Kenya.

Betty Hawkins keyed in all the material (more than once). Many thanks to her for
this arduous task, and also to Rebecca Dale and Charlotte Higgins for their help.

Suzanne Williams researched, collated, wrote, and edited the Manual, with the help
of Janet Seed, who contributed material, advised on the Facilitator's notes, and
wrote sections B and C9. Adelina Mwau contributed material and ideas, and
convened the Kenya readers' workshop.

This book has drawn on the work of gender trainers, and writers on gender issues,
from all over the world. Wherever possible, the source is given for each activity and
handout, unless the material was provided by one of the authors, or by Oxfam.
Oxfam is grateful to the following individuals and organisations for permission to
use published material: Aga Khan Foundation Canada; Mary Anderson; Michelle
Friedman; Sara Hlupekile Longwe; Liz Mackenzie and CACE Publications,
University of the Western Cape; Mambo Press, Zimbabwe; Caroline O N Moser;
Margaret Murray; New Internationalist Magazine; Dave Richards; Alice Welbourn;
Whyld Publishing Co-op; Zed Books. We have been unable to trace the sources and
copyright holders for some of the material included. We would be glad to hear from
anyone whose material has not been fully acknowledged, so that any omissions can
be corrected should the book be reprinted.

Oxfam is grateful to Swiss Development Co-operation (SDC) for their generous

contribution towards the cost of producing and distributing this manual.

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Foreword

'At this training we have learnt that women are all the same: they fight for survival,
and do not wait for a man to bring food.'

'We have shared freely and learnt from each other, building sisterhood. I know now
that as a woman I have no country, no tribe; my tribe, my country, is the whole world.'

'Nobody can stop me using what I have learnt at this workshop.'

The voices are those of participants at gender training sessions in Kenya and Tanzania.
They show the potential of gender training to transform people's perceptions of
themselves and their communities. The Oxfam Gender Training Manual represents
the experience of Oxfam (United Kingdom and Ireland) of using gender training in the
implementation of gender policy, enabling women to end their vulnerability, assert
their power, and effect positive change.

Oxfam's Gender and Development Unit (GADU) was set up in 1985 to address a
growing concern that many development initiatives, far from benefiting women, were
actually marginalising them and rendering them powerless. Since the early days of
GADU's existence, gender training has been a key strategy, used to sensitise Oxfam
staff and partners to gender issues, and to learn from our grassroots experience.

Throughout the world, women's marginalisation is justified on the grounds of

culture and tradition. Current global political and economic trends are worsening
women's poverty and vulnerability. In 1992, Oxfam ratified an organisational
gender policy, formalising its commitment to positive action to promote the full
participation and empowerment of women in existing and future programmes, and
to ensure that development benefits both women and men equally.

Trainers from within GADU and outside Oxfam have conducted workshops and
training sessions with our partner organisations, and women at grassroots level, in
order to ensure that women's voices are heard, and Oxfam can respond to their needs.

Together with planning, monitoring and evaluation, and recruitment, gender training
is a tool in the process of implementing gender-fair development, rather than an end in
itself. Rather than promoting a mechanical implementation of gender equitable
development, gender training aims to develop thought and action in a transformational
manner, enabling participants to explore the issues, understand the dynamics of their
societies and apply the concept of gender analysis to everyday development practice.

Gender training seeks to stimulate recognition and respect for women's own
knowledge, leading to increased awareness and ability to address gender inequity. It
is concerned, not with others, but with us ourselves, our work and our organisations.
As such, it is a two-way process where facilitators and participants share knowledge
and learn together.

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Gender training differs from other forms of training in several important ways. First,
it challenges the beliefs of both participants and trainers, consciously and
unconsciously. Gender training forces everyone involved to examine themselves
and their relationships with others. Once it is initiated at a training session, the
process of gender sensitisation continues in daily life.

Conducting gender training requires a wide range of skills: knowledge of

development, and of the theory of gender analysis; interpersonal skills;
commitment to multiculturalism; and respect for the views of others. Trainers are
often required to deal with resistance: they need to accept that for some, working
towards gender equity is not, and will never be, a priority. A good gender trainer will
be passionate about the work, and committed to enabling women to determine their
own destiny, through supporting the personal development of both women and men,
and recognising that men can and should play an active role in this transformation.

This Manual is the result of an interactive learning process between Oxfam's

Gender Team, field staff, and women's resource centres. The training methods
featured here have been developed in a co-operative and collective manner.
Wherever possible, acknowledgement has been given in the Manual of the origin of
each exercise; however, with many, tracing this origin has not been possible. As
feminist historians have proved over the past decades, the contribution of women,
especially poor women from the South, has often been ignored and their creativity
appropriated by louder voices in the North. Oxfam respects these facts, and
acknowledges the valuable work of those whose names are not known.

In the Gender Team, training work has been mostly carried out by Eugenia Piza
Lopez, Jan Seed, and Bridget Walker, with the support of Oxfam's field staff,
including Adelina Mwau, Vishalakshi Padmanabhan, Galuh Wandita, Lot Felizco,
Sonia Vasquez, Assitan Coulibaly, and Mariam Dem. Suzanne Williams, who has
extensive experience in gender and development work, and a close association with
the Gender Team, was asked to help us to put together a training resource. A debt of
gratitude is owed to her and to Jan Seed and Adelina Mwau, for their roles in the
development of the Manual. In this process, they have drawn upon the richness of
Oxfam's experience of working with trainers from all over the world.

Finally, thanks are due to the pioneering work of those who have developed
theoretical frameworks which enable practitioners to understand gender and
development theory. These include Caroline Moser, Sara Hlupekile Longwe,
Maxine Molyneaux and Naila Kabeer. Thanks to them, we are able to assess and
challenge their thinking, and our own practice.

Eugenia Piza Lopez

Gender Team Leader
Oxfam UK/I

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Preface

In recent years Oxfam has made a firm commitment to address gender inequality
and the impoverishment of women in all its development and relief work, and to
seek models and methods which respond to women's specific needs as well as those
they share with men. This is a task which provides a continuous challenge. The field
of gender analysis is constantly developing, and Oxfam's contribution to this field is
part of a learning process which we share with our counterpart organisations all over
the world.
In the spirit of this mutual learning about gender, we have put together a training
manual which draws on our experience over the years, and the work of many
colleagues in the North and the South. The conceptual framework is based on the
work of many writers and practitioners in the field of gender and development, and
on the work of Oxfam's Gender and Development Team. Within this framework, we
have put together a large number of participatory activities which have been tested
in gender workshops and training courses all over the world most have been used
by Oxfam trainers for training field staff and men and women from amongst our
counterparts in development. They have been gathered from a variety of sources and
reflect the experiences and approaches of women from different cultural, economic
and national backgrounds.
This manual is designed for the use of staff of non-governmental organisations
(NGOs) who have some experience in running workshops or training courses, and
for experienced gender trainers. Its aim is to provide practical tools for the training
of development workers who are in a position to influence the planning and
implementation of development and relief programmes at different levels. While
the manual offers an introduction to the basic concepts used in gender analysis and
how to apply them to practical work, the activities are not intended for awareness-
raising for grassroots groups.
We hope this will be a special contribution to the field of gender training. There
has been a strong demand from the NGO sector for training materials of this kind.
When Oxfam's Gender and Development Unit (now the Gender Team) was
established in 1985, training in gender awareness was the first and most urgent
demand from the field offices for its services. Over the past seven years Oxfam
trainers have carried out gender training in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, as well
as with staff in the UK headquarters through regularly-programmed Gender and
Development and Gender and Communications courses. The demand is still
growing, from within and outside Oxfam. We trust that this manual will be a helpful
response to what is an encouraging growth of awareness in the NGO sector of the
central importance of gender analysis in development and relief work.
A distinctive feature of this manual is that it combines self-awareness work,
through activities which address women's and men's self-awareness and gender
awareness, with training in methods of gender analysis. We believe that self-
awareness in relation to gender is central to training development and relief agency

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staff in the use of analytical tools. Awareness training addresses attitudes,
perceptions and beliefs; unless people are sensitive to gender inequalities, gender
analysis training is unlikely in the long run to change planning and practice in
development and relief agencies' work. We believe that unless people's emotions
are touched, and their practices in their personal lives are brought into the
discussion, there is a risk that gender awareness will remain merely an intellectual
construct, and will be limited in its power to bring about meaningful social change.
We have produced this manual in a format to facilitate reproduction of the
activities, handouts and other material. Please use it in this way, but always cite the
source clearly: The Oxfam Gender Training Manual, whenever you copy parts of
the manual.
Finally, as we are engaged in a process of constant renewal of our ideas and
revitalisation of our experience, we would welcome hearing from you, as users, with
your feedback on the manual, as well as your discoveries and new insights in the
field of gender training.

Suzanne Williams
Oxford, September 1994

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A.I A guide to this manual

Welcome to this Manual! Before you take the plunge into it, here are a few notes to
help you find your way around it.

Basic Structure
The Manual begins with information and ideas for you, the trainer/facilitator. The
Introductory Section A2 offers a brief summary of the Key concepts related to
Gender and Gender and Development for your reference throughout the course;
Section B presents detailed Facilitator's guidelines with the principles behind
gender training, and steps to follow when planning and carrying out a workshop.

Section C is organised like a training course or workshop. The topic sections are
roughly in the order they should be used, but we have not set them out as a pre-
designed course. By selecting the topics you need, you should be able to run a range
of different courses appropriate to the needs of your group, from a day-long gender
analysis workshop for NGO emergency staff to a two-week course for project
workers on gender awareness, analysis and planning. Section C. flows like this:
Sections C.I and C.2 start the group off, and begin to look at participants' views
about development (Introductions and Expectations; Sharing work experience
and Consensus on development). Any course you run will need to start off with
some of these activities.
Section C.3 contains a number of activities on Gender awareness and Self-
awareness for women and men. Some of these are for women or men only, other
are for mixed groups. The women- or men-only ones could also be used with mixed
groups; this depends on your particular group, its needs, and its level of awareness,
its capacity to take risks. You will be the best judge of this!
Because we believe that in gender training you should not separate self-
awareness from analysis, we suggest you always include some of the activities in
Section C.3. How deep you want to go will depend on how much time you have; but
don't leave it out altogether.
Sections C.4, C.5 and C.6. begin to move into gender analysis and more in-depth
exploration of concepts and ideas about development and relief work. Gender roles
and needs are followed by suggested factual inputs on Women in the world, and
work on Gender and development, including wrong assumptions about women
and development, the concepts of participation and empowerment, and their
application to development and relief work.
The roles and needs activities are essential for laying the foundations for gender
analysis, particularly the Moser method, which is taught in detail in Section C.7,
Gender-sensitive appraisal and planning. Wrong assumptions should always be
counteracted by facts about women.

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 Section C.7 includes activities on a range of different gender frameworks of
analysis used by Oxfam (Moser, Harvard, UNHCR, CVA, Longwe, Munroe) and
a number of Case study activities. Some of the case studies are linked to the
frameworks, others are presented with questions to bring out particular issues. This
section also contains a set of guidelines for preparing and writing your own case
studies.
This section must be preceded by activities from the sections outlined above,
unless you are working with a group already very well-versed in gender analysis,
who need only a follow-up or more advanced training.
Section C.8, Gender and global issues uses the analysis and awareness learned
in the workshop to look at particular issues from a gender perspective: these include
conflict, environmental issues, economic crisis, and culture. Many of these
activities require a great deal of preparation from you, the facilitators, and from the
participants, as they are most effective when using case studies drawn from your
own, or the group's, experience.
Section C.9 follows the global perspective with a much closer focus on how to set
about working with women and men in NGOs, in villages and communities.
Having learned gender analysis, how do you build it into your practice?
Section CIO on Gender and communications, which is about making and
using images and text to communicate gender-sensitive messages, could itself form
the core of a specific workshop, but is presented here as an element of any gender
training.
Section C.ll looks at Strategies for change: planning and implementing work
on gender. This is a critical section, and a gender training workshop must always
finish up with participants formulating some concrete plans for using the insights
and skills they have learned in their development and relief practice.
Section C.12 concludes the workshop with activities designed for participants
and facilitators to evaluate what has and has not been learned. This will help you in
your future planning as a facilitator, and also gives participants some yardstick for
their own progress, and future training needs.

Some hints and warnings!

Always read the Facilitator's Notes on each activity before you select it. Some of
them need preparation of several months ahead to prepare case studies, for
example and some need setting up visits to villages or local NGOs. Some are
suitable for only women, some for only men, some for groups with little
understanding of gender, some with an advanced understanding of gender. The
Facilitator's Notes will always indicate how the activity has been used, or should be
used, and often has suggestions of ways you could adapt the it for your specific
purposes, so that you can use some of your own creative skill!

At the beginning of each section, you will find a list of the activities in it, with the
accompanying Handouts, and the timing for the activities. These are approximate,

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giving you a guide so you can plan your workshop. All the activities and handouts
are listed in the Contents List, and a short topic index at the back of the Manual gives
you a quick guide into the way subjects are covered, and where to find them.

Q It is tempting to pick out activities because they look attractive don't do it that
way! Work out your aims and objectives, identify the needs of your group, plan the
workshop then choose activities which meet your requirements.

The Handouts are designed to be easy to photocopy. We have tried to keep the
explanatory or analytical sections at the beginning of the Manual short, and put lots
of information into the Handouts, so that participants will be able to take this
information home with them. Because of this, some handouts are rather long, but
you can adapt them as you need to.

We have used the word 'flipchart' to describe the large sheets of blank paper,
used in training sessions, which are bound together into a pad, and sometimes used
on a flipchart-stand. These are not always available, so any large sheets of paper,
such as newsprint, can be used instead. Similarly, we have used 'marker pens' to
describe the large, often felt-tipped, pens commonly used by trainers; but other
writing implements can be used where these are not available.

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A.2 Key concepts

Gender
The key to understanding how development and relief work affects men, women,
girls, and boys is grasping the concept of gender.
What is gender? The word was used by Ann Oakley and others in the 1970s to
describe those characteristics of men and women which are socially determined, in
contrast to those which are biologically determined. This distinction between
gender and sex has very important implications, which are elaborated throughout
this manual.
Essentially, the distinction between sex and gender is made to emphasise that
everything women and men do, and everything expected of them, with the
exception of their sexually distinct functions (childbearing and breastfeeding;
impregnation) can change, and does change, over time and according to
changing and varied social and cultural factors.
The term gender can meet with resistance, amongst both native English speakers
and speakers of other languages. Language and culture shape each other, and it says
much about our deeply based cultural assumptions that a term to describe the
possibility of change and variety in men and women's roles has been introduced so
recently! But while the term itself may sound alien to many people, the concept
resonates powerfully with the lived experience of both women and men. It is this
concept that is important, and the early sections of this manual offer ways of making
it real through experiential learning, (see Section C3 Building Gender
Awareness).
A working definition ofgender.people are born female or male, but learn to be
girls and boys who grow into women and men. They are taught what the
appropriate behaviour and attitudes, roles and activities are for them, and how
they should relate to other people. This learned behaviour is what makes up
gender identity, and determines gender roles.

Gender is a dynamic concept: gender roles for women and men vary greatly
from one culture to another, and from one social group to another within the same
culture. Race, class, economic circumstances, age all of these influence what is
considered appropriate for women and men. Furthermore, as culture is dynamic,
and socio-economic conditions change over time, so gender patterns change with
them. Sudden crises, like war or famine, can radically and rapidly change what men
and women do although sometimes (as women ex-combatants in liberation
struggles have found) after the crisis the old attitudes may return. But sometimes the
changes have a permanent impact.

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Q Gender helps us to understand other differences: understanding gender
differentiation and gender discrimination helps us to understand differentiation and
discrimination on other grounds. Different roles and characteristics are assigned to
people not only on the basis of their gender, but of their race, caste, class, ethnic
background and age. Our social analysis becomes finer, our social interventions
more finely tuned, when we are aware of all the complex ways in which society slots
people into different categories and roles, and of the ways these roles can be the
basis of both cooperation and conflict. For neither women nor men form a
homogeneous group in any society. Women may come into conflict with each other
because of racial difference, or women of different nationalities or class groups may
find solidarity in their gender identity.

Aspects of gender differentiation

The social construction of differentiated gender roles has profound implications for
women and men:

In relation to work: both women and men have roles in the spheres of
production (of goods and services) and public life, from the community to the
governmental level. However, the tasks associated with the reproduction of society
(ensuring basic needs at family and household level are met, homes and children are
maintained and cared for) fall almost entirely on women's shoulders. One of the
results of this is that, the world over, women have longer working days than men.
Another key issue is the way work is valued. For all its enormous importance,
reproductive work is undervalued its lack of value is expressed by the failure to
recognise that it is 'real' work. Women who labour in the home commonly say 'oh,
I don't work', because their work is not recognised and remunerated. In the UK, for
example, if the reproductive (or domestic) work of women were valued at current
market rates, women would earn in the region of 12,000 to 15,000 a year for it.
The productive work of women is often seen as an extension of their reproductive
work and likewise undervalued. While men's agricultural work is often
cultivating cash crops, for example, women's food production for family
consumption is unpaid and taken for granted. Women, effectively, pay themselves,
through self-provisioning. But their work is often not considered, by themselves as
well as by others, to be 'real work'. (See Handouts 21and 22: Mr Moyo goes to the
Doctor and The Lie of the Land)
In the public sphere, at all levels, with a few notable exceptions, it is men who
hold the high-status positions and have decision-making power: women tend to fill
the roles of support persons and organisers. While men's work in this sphere is
highly rewarded, women's work is often under-valued.
The inequalities in gender roles, and the resulting different needs of women and
men, is explored in Section C.4: Gender Roles and Needs.

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 In relation to sharing the world's resources and benefits: gender inequality is
very evident. The often-quoted UN statistics still hold true:
women perform 2/3 of the world's work;
women earn 1/10 of the world's income;
women are 2/3 of the world's illiterates;
women own less than 1/100 of the world's property.
Access to resources and benefits, and control over them is allocated according to
gender, in both obvious and quite subtle ways. In some societies, for example,
women may not own land, and their access to it for growing food may depend on a
male relative or husband. In other cases, there may be no explicit reason why women
should not attend, say, literacy classes but their access will be limited by their
workload, and lack of extra hours or energy to take advantage of so-called equal
opportunities. The notions of unequal access and control come up throughout this
manual, and are more closely defined in Section C.7: Gender-sensitive Appraisal
and Planning.

In relation to human rights: the world over, women are denied their human
rights. Gender differentiation is about inequality and about power relations between
men and women. Half the world's people is subordinate to the other half, in
thousands of different ways, because of the sex they are born with. Despite
international human rights law which guarantees all people equal rights,
irrespective of sex, race, caste and so on, women are denied equal rights with men to
land, to property, to mobility, to education, to employment opportunities, to shelter,
to food, to worship, and over the lives of their children. Women are denied the right
even to manage, control and care for the health of their own bodies, and their
reproductive functions. In many cultures women's bodies are ritually maimed and
mutilated, and women are routinely beaten and even murdered in the name of
cultural tradition, despite the fact that international human rights law prohibits
cultural practices which are damaging to women. Violence against women is an
abuse of human rights.

In relation to culture and religion: women face the same discrimination as they
do in other spheres, and both religion and culture are sources of gender oppression
and inequality. While religions may teach equality between people, in practice
women usually have a subordinate role and may be excluded altogether from the
religious hierarchy. Different interpretations of religious texts, and different
religious traditions within the Christian church, for example, have different
implications for women. Religion nevertheless holds out the promise of equality
and justice, and this is why despite its role as a powerful form of male control over
the lives of women, it continues to be a source of hope and support to many women.
There are many culturally-sanctioned practices such as genital mutilation, and
preferential feeding of boys which damage women and make their lives more
difficult and painful. Culture, however, like religion, can also be the source of
cohesion and solidarity amongst women, and amongst women and men. Cultural
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discussed in activities in Section C.8 Gender and Global Issues.
Gender oppression takes a multitude of forms, and is an added dimension to
oppression based on race, ethnic identity, class and caste. Its forms also vary with
these factors, and we should never make assumptions about forms of gender
oppression in cultures or social groups we do not fully understand. However, it is
universal that women's experience of male domination is felt by them in every
sphere of life in political office, in the courts and judicial system, in the
marketplace, in the classroom, in the clinic, in the trade union, in the community
organisation, in the household, and in the bedroom.
On the road to social equity, gender is the last barrier, because it involves
transformation of attitudes and practice in all societies, for all people: it
touches all of us, all the way to our most intimate relationships. For this reason
it arouses very strong feelings among both women and men, and these feelings
are often brought out by gender awareness training. Section C.3: Building
Gender Awareness, and Section C.9: Working with Women and Men, raise
some of these issues.

Gender and development analysis

Development approaches
Gender and Development (GAD), and Women in Development (WID) are often
used interchangeably, and programming with a gender focus is often thought to
mean supporting more projects for women. It is important to remember that while
these terms only incorporate 'development' they apply equally to relief in
emergencies.
The WID approach usually seeks to integrate women into development by
making more resources available to women, in an effort to increase women's
efficiency in their existing roles. Very often, this approach has increased women's
workloads, reinforced inequalities, and widened the gap between men and women.
The GAD approach seeks to base interventions on the analysis of men's and
women's roles and needs in an effort to empower women to improve their position
relative to men in ways which will benefit and transform society as a whole. GAD is
thus driven by a powerful motivation to work for equity and respect for human
rights for all people. These approaches are presented in Section C.6: Gender and
Development, which also explores the issues of women's empowerment and
participation in development and relief in emergencies.

Gender awareness
Gender cannot simply be 'stitched on' to existing development models, nor added
into development and relief programmes as an extra component. Gender awareness
is not a separate or additional issue to be addressed; it is a way of seeing, a
perspective, a set of insights which informs our understanding of people and society.
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beliefs and actions. We take it for granted. Yet when we begin to look into it, and
question our assumptions, we find that the world looks different.
Gender awareness means looking with new eyes, in a way which is constantly
open to learning more. Looking into development and relief work with these new
eyes reveals what is now well- documented in countless examples from all over the
world: that women's needs, as distinct from men's, have been invisible in most
agency planning until very recently, with the result that many development and
relief programmes have not only failed to bring any improvements to women's lives,
but have made them worse. It was this realisation which led to the closer
examination of the impact of development on women, and to the beginnings of
GADt analysis.

GAD analysis and planning

GAD analysis challenges development models which measure benefits in purely
economic terms, and which are based, one way or another, on the old 'trickle-down'
theory. This theory proposed that benefits fed into the top of social structures (like
the household or family) or community organisations would 'trickle down' to
everyone belonging to them. However, this has been shown over and over again not
to work, because the relationships within communities and the household are not
egalitarian, but based on complex systems governed by power and status.
Thus we cannot assume that 'community development' will benefit all the people
within the community; within this social group there are always differences in
power, determined by gender, class, caste, race, or religion, and combinations of all
of these factors. Within the household, the favoured social unit of development and
relief interventions, women do not have the same rights as men, and benefits at the
household level are seldom shared equally between males and females. (See
Section C.2 Consensus on Development)
Neither can we assume that emergency relief, delivered to people in extreme
circumstances, will benefit women, men, and children equally. In refugee camps,
for example, where women and children are usually the majority of the population,
distribution of food is often controlled by men and is seldom allocated equitably
between the sexes. Patterns of unequal resource distribution between women and
men at community or household level are likely to persist even where these social
units have been severely disrupted by conflict or by natural disasters.
The analytical tools ofgender and development disaggregate, or take apart, these
familiar conceptual units such as the community, the household, the family, and look
at the relations and distribution of resources within them. 'Gender-disaggregated
data' is information collected in a way which distinguishes between the different
activities, aspirations, needs, and interests of women and men.
GAD tools and frameworks of analysis form the basis for gender-sensitive project
appraisal and planning from a gender perspective. The activities which present
them, and practical ways of using them, are to be found in Section C.6 Gender and
Development, and Section C.7 Gender-sensitive Appraisal and Planning.

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GAD tools of analysis and analytical frameworks
The gender division of labour
This refers to the different kinds of work done by men and women (see above:
Section 2.1. Gender) and the different value ascribed to the work. The gender
division of labour varies from one society and culture to another, and within them; it
also changes with external circumstances and over time. Analysing the gender
division of labour in any group can clarify the interdependence and cooperation, on
one hand, and the inequalities and conflicts, on the other, in the work relationships
of women and men. It is the understanding of these relationships which is
fundamental for planning: we have to know how our support will affect the work
done by women and by men, and how our interventions affect the relationships
between women and men, and the way female and male tasks are related to each
other.

Women's 'triple role'

This is a way of classifying the kind of work done by women.. As discussed above,
it usually refers to reproductive, productive and community work. Women have a
'triple role', because it is predominantly women who carry out reproductive work.
In this manual we take 'community work' to include all activity in the public sphere,
from organising festivals and caring for the sick, to lobbying authorities for services,
forming a trade union, or holding political office. It can be useful to distinguish
between two forms of community role, referred to by Moser2 as the community
managing, and the community politics role. (See Section C.4, Gender Roles and
Needs) The way these forms of work are valued affects the way women and men set
priorities when it comes to planning programmes or projects. Childcare provision,
for example, is not likely to be a priority for men in project planning: but it can make
or break women's chances of taking advantage of development opportunities.

'Practical' and 'strategic' needs

The distinction between practical and strategic needs3 and the analysis of women's
triple role are part of what is called gender planning. (See Section C.7: Gender-
sensitive Appraisal and Planning) This is a framework for gender analysis and
planning developed by Moser, based on the distinction by Molyneux between
women's and men's practical and strategic gender interests. In this manual we use
notions of both needs and interests. For further discussion of these see Section C.7.
It is useful to think about this distinction in relation to the condition of women
the immediate, material circumstances in which they live and their position in
society relative to men, which is the way gender determines power, status, and
control over decisions and resources.
Practical needs are related to the condition of women and their present workloads
and responsibilities. They refer to, for example, the need for a clean and nearby
water supply, stoves for more efficient cooking, credit schemes or seeds. These
needs can be addressed by practical and short-term development interventions, but
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practical needs are not seen within the context of strategic interests, addressing them
in isolation can actually worsen women's situation in the long run.
Strategic needs arise from the analysis of women's subordination to men, and are
related to changing women's position. These needs may include equal access to
decision-making power, getting rid of institutionalised discrimination in the areas
of labour, land ownership, and education, measures to eradicate male violence
against women, and shared responsibility with men for child-rearing. It is critical
that women themselves identify what the strategic issues and paths of action are for
them. Response to practical needs, however, may be an important entry point into
work with women, and needs to be done in a strategic way. For example, distributing
food relief aid through women supports them in their customary authority over
food, and also gives them a measure of control over its allocation. Addressing the
strategic needs of women requires long-term planning, and changes in the attitudes
of men. The issue of men's practical and strategic needs and interests raises a
number of complex questions in relation to gender inequalities and power: these are
discussed in Section C.7.
While these two categories of needs are a useful analytical tool, in practice they
often overlap. For example, women's felt and immediate need for basic numeracy
and literacy skills in order to operate in the local market may bring the longer-term
strategic advantage of enabling them to participate more effectively in community
organisations or training courses. On the other hand, there are dangers in supporting
projects which address practical needs say, for income in ways which do not
take strategic needs into account. Thus projects which support income-generating
activities without components for training in accounting skills, management of
organisations, and control over primary resources, may reinforce existing gender
inequalities, and rob women of control over the benefits of the project.

The Harvard Analytical Framework: Access and Control

Analysing the gender division of labour and roles of women and men begins to give us
insights into the power relationships within society and what they are built on. Power
is vested in control over resources, such as land, equipment, other assets or labour, and
over benefits, such as cash, or political prestige. Women may have access to some of
these resources, such as land, but if they lack control over land they will be unable to
assert their priorities for its use, and their access to the benefits of land cultivation will
be restricted. Because women generally work longer hours than men, they have less
access than men to one of the most precious resources: time. This in turn restricts
women's access to social resources and benefits such as schools and training, which
could open up new life-chances and income-earning opportunities.
The Harvard Analytical Framework4 (See Section C.7) charts profiles of
women's and men's activities, access to and control over resources and benefits, and
the external factors (political, environmental, economic, cultural) which influence
these profiles. This enables us to analyse the different ways in which these factors
influence women and men at many different levels, and to look at other
differentiating characteristics such as age, culture and class.

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The People-oriented Analytical Framework
This is based on the Harvard Framework and was devised as a practical planning
tool for refugee workers. While any tool or framework for gender analysis can be
used in emergency relief work, the People-oriented Framework highlights concerns
which are particularly acute for refugees: dramatic change in people's roles and
resources, and issues related to legal and social protection. The theme of loss is
central to this analysis.

Capacities and Vulnerabilities Analysis (CVA)

CVA emerged from the International Relief/Development Project coordinated at
Harvard in the late 1980s, in which over 50 European and US NGOs collaborated. It
can be applied to relief or development work, and points to their interconnectedness.
It distinguishes between short-term, immediate needs of women and men in crisis,
and their long-term vulnerabilities, which precede crisis, make them susceptible to
it, and affect their capacity to respond to it. The CVA5 framework stresses that it is
people's capacities in emergencies which should be the focus of interventions: these
capacities can be social, organisational, or resource-based, and strengthening them
offers people the best chance of recovering from disaster. The framework allows for
disaggregation by gender and other social factors, and can be used at any stage of the
project or programme cycle.

Checklists
There is now a wide range of gender tools of analysis and planning, and gender
analysis frameworks. In this manual we present only those which we have used, or
which have been used by our contributors. A checklist of questions or criteria with
which to measure women's development is a useful tool at both the appraisal and
planning stage: indicators can then be based on these criteria to evaluate the success
of development or relief programmes. A number of checklists are presented in
Section C.7, with Activity 54 Checklists, which aims to enable participants to use
them, or devise their own.

Tools of appraisal
Appraisal tools, such as Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) and Participatory Rural
Appraisal (PRA), as well as others with more emphasis on participative learning,
such as Participatory Learning Methods (PALM) or Participatory Assessment,
Monitoring and Evaluation (PAME), have been developed with the assumption that
because they use participatory methods, they will elicit information from women
equally with men. Whether this is the case will depend on the social and cultural
factors governing gender relations in any given area or social group, and the extent
to which women are able to respond without fear. For these appraisal tools to be
gender-sensitive, they have to be used by gender-aware practitioners, and be based
on some pre-existing understanding of local determinants of gender relations.
Section C.7 presents some of the participatory tools of appraisal which can be used
in gender analysis.

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Participatory training
Training is a planned process designed to expand or refine skills and knowledge, and
to examine attitudes, ideas and behaviour with a view to modifying them. It covers
a wide range of learning, from technical skills, such as weaving or computer
operation, to more complex sets of ideas which can challenge commonly and
strongly held values and beliefs. Training is often short-term and intensive, as it is
seen as complementary to broader education. It is usually targeted quite specifically
to particular skills, people, or institutional needs.
The term and even the concept of training is sometimes seen as
problematic. Some people in India have commented that it has militaristic
connotations, and is thus particularly inappropriate for gender training. While we
use this term in the manual, we are sensitive to the fact that all forms of education
must be responsive to cultural and social differences and be adaptive and flexible.

A participatory approach to training

This approach is based on the belief that people learn more effectively when their
own capacity and knowledge is valued, and when they are able to share and analyse
their experiences in a safe collective environment. In the preparation of the training
and throughout its process, the content should match people's needs and be
appropriate to their life and work. The role of the trainer is to facilitate the process
of learning, rather than to teach. This form of training owes much to the ideas of the
Brazilian educator Paulo Freire6:
Education based on the 'banking' approach, which aims to deposit information
into passive pupils, is disempowering and oppressing; to be liberating, education
should pose problems to people and provide frameworks for their active
participation in solving them.
Education must be based on people's needs and life experience.
The educative process is one of exchange and dialogue, of reflection and action.

Experiential learning
People learn most effectively when they are active participants in the process. The
activities in this manual use a variety of different techniques, exercises, and games
to involve people in analysis and reflection about their experience. The activities
present theories and frameworks of analysis to assist people in this process, and to
lead them towards planning for action based on what they have learned. Experiential
learning within a group means that people have the opportunity to share knowledge
and problems with others and work together to find solutions. This also means that
the building of group trust right at the beginning of any training which uses the
experiential method, is crucial to its success.
The role of the facilitator is to help participants get as much as possible out of
the activities and make sure that the key concepts and ideas are communicated and
understood. She or he should also be ready to adapt the programme in response to
needs and ideas which come up in the course of the training. This is further
discussed in Section B: Facilitator's guidelines.

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A word of warning about training
Training is a tool, a means to achieve certain objectives but not an end in itself.
Problems or shortcomings will not be resolved by simply throwing training at them.
For training to be worth doing and fulfil its objectives, it has to be part of a strategy
within a structure which supports it. There have to be established policy, procedures
and practice which take up the results of training. Otherwise, the danger is that
training can be used by institutions as an excuse not to do anything else!

Endnotes
1 Ann Oakley, Sex, Gender and Society, first published in 1972 by Temple-Smith,
London.
2 Caroline Moser defined the triple role of women as reproductive, productive, and
community managing. Later in Gender Planning and Development Theory
Practice and Training, published by Routledge, London, 1993, she distinguishes
community management from community politics. These are examined in more
detail in Section C.4 Gender Roles and Needs.
3 The distinction between women's practical and strategic interests was first
defined by Maxine Molyneux in Molyneux M (1985) 'Mobilisation without
emancipation? Women's interests, state and revolution in Nicaragua', Feminist
Studies, 11 (2), and later developed into the notion of practical and strategic needs
by Caroline Moser in 'Gender planning in the Third World: meeting practical and
strategic gender needs', World Development 17; 11, 1989. See also Changing
Perceptions: Writings on Gender and Development, ed. Wallace and March,
Oxfam, Oxford, 1991.
4 This is outlined in Overholt, Anderson, Cloud and Austin (eds), A Case Book:
Gender Roles in Development Projects, Kumarian Press, 1985.
5 The CYA framework of analysis is described in Anderson and Woodrow (1989)
Rising from the Ashes, Westview Press/UNESCO.
6 Paulo Freire, in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1972, Penguin Books), states of the
teacher-student relationship: 'problem-posing education, breaking the vertical
patterns characteristic of banking education, can fulfil its function of being the
practice of freedom only if it can overcome the contradiction [in the student-
teacher relationship]. [Teacher and student] become jointly responsible for a
process in which all grow.'

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