Gender and Technology Training Guidelines
This step is about understanding gender needs and including them in training and
other activities.
Consider first:
How much your work includes recognition and analysis of women's practical1 daily
needs such as: food, water, housing, income, health other needs unique to specific
contexts, which can be addressed by provision of specific outputs.
In relation to the above, is the work that you are doing:
Meeting women's practical needs?
Constrained by practical concerns of women not being met by the project?
Consider second:
How much your work includes recognition and analysis of women's strategic2 needs,
such as legal rights, domestic violence and equal wages the need to increase
women’s self confidence, education, organisation etc. to ensure that women
particularly are in control of their development.
In relation to the above, is the work that you are doing:
Empowering women, and/or challenging their subordinate position?
Transforming gender relationships in the community and within the household?
Addressing any other strategic needs of women?
STEP 6 - PLANNING THE CHANGES
Now you have all the information you need to plan changes to your work.
Identify the gaps
Decide which are the most important
Identify which are the changes that are most likely to be feasible
1 Practical gender needs do not challenge the divisions of labour and women’s subordinate position in society. Meeting women’s
practical needs improves their ability to carry out traditional roles and responsibilities, but does not alter gender relations in a society.
2 These are long term issues that almost all women (and men) face. They relate to women’s disadvantaged position, lack of power,
education, resources etc.
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