The key processes and activities involved in addressing gender and development requirements of project are as shown below:
Table 3: Key Processes and Steps | |||
Key Processes and Steps1 | Key Outcome | ||
Project Identification | Participation of men and women | Concerns and interests are taken into account. | |
Collection of sex-disaggregated data and gender-related information | ● Comprehensive analysis of the situation that includes the gender dimension of the development problem or situation and the existing gender issues. ● Identification of gender issues and women's special needs | ||
Gender analysis | |||
Project Design and Formulation | Articulation of a woman's human right or gender equality goal, purpose or objective | Gender issues and constraints addressed | |
Inclusion of gender equality and women's rights outputs and outcomes | Institutional or organizational changes in programs and projects seeking GAD mainstreaming | ||
Gender-responsive activities or interventions | Projects and programs that address relevant gender issues and achieve gender equality goals. | ||
Review of final project design using gender analysis | Congruency of activities and strategies with gender equality goals and the results to be attained. | ||
Inclusion of monitoring targets and indicators | ● Commitment of project resources to eradicated gender discrimination or improve women's situation and status ● Targets being set ● Monitoring of project progress and accomplishments | ||
Commitment of resources to activities and interventions | Sufficient resources made available to attain gender equality and women's empowerment through project intervention | ||
Investment Program Formulation | Analysis of investment gaps and preferred sector/regional areas of public investment | Screening and prioritization of gender-responsive programs and projects as provided for in Republic Act 7192 (Act Promoting the Integration of Women as Full and Equal Partners of Men in Development and Nation Building and for other Purposes). | |
Determine nature and size of several programs and projects | |||
Scheduling of investment program/project implementation | |||
Planning and financing of the investment plan | |||
Evaluation of Proposed Projects | Analysis of the project's technical, financial, economic, social, and operational viability | Addressing identified relevant gender issues in project design | |
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1 Adopted and interpreted from the Harmonized Gender and Development Guidelines for Project Development, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation (Second Edition), NEDA-NCFRW, and ODA-GAD Network), 2007.