Gender in Project Design
Jemimah Njuki
Team Leader: Poverty, Gender and Impact
FAO-ILRI Workshop on Integrating Gender in Livestock Projects and Programs,
ILRI, Addis Ababa, 22-25 November 2011

A Framework for achieving an optimal level of gender integration
programs /projects /Activities
Problem and context analysis
Identifying priorities, setting goals and objectives
Research & development
Work plan and staffing
Budget
Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
Gender strategy

Problem and context analysis
Presents convincing and clear evidence-
based arguments for addressing gender in
the proposal
What are the key gender issues in the
particular context (from the gender and
socio-economic analysis)
How does the constraint /opportunity being
addressed differ for men and women?
How are the potential impacts likely to differ
for men, women and other groups?

Identifying priorities, setting goals
and objectives
• Defines gender-responsive goals and objectives and states
whether gender is a stand-alone research topic (i.e. strategic
gender research) or a crosscutting thematic research area in
which gender analysis is used to inform an deepen other
research themes (i.e. gender mainstreaming).
• How might priorities differ for men and women (ranking,
scoring etc)
– Priority livestock species, products, technologies, markets,
activities etc
• Integrating gender in objectives (gender responsive, and
gender transformative objectives)
Develop vaccines for key major diseases in
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Somalia

Identifying priorities, setting goals
and objectives
Integrated: Develop vaccines for key major
diseases that are suitable for use by
smallholders, women and marginal farmers
in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Somalia
Stand Alone: Develop, test and evaluate
strategies for disseminating animal health
information to women farmers in Kenya,
Uganda, Tanzania and Somalia

Research, Development and
Implementation
• Presents a comprehensive analysis of the
approaches to be used for addressing gender
• Two types of activities:
 Integrating gender into project components
• Priority setting
• Training activities
 Specific research and interventions on gender
• Training of project staff on gender and gender analysis
• Training men and women on gender relations to address
underlying assumptions / cultural biases
• Give women the opportunity /confidence to actively
participate

Work Plan and Staffing
• Describes activities that will be carried out to
deliver on gender objectives and
implementation strategy
• Recommend appropriate staffing levels, level of
effort and expertise and discuss the level of
technical capacity needed to carry out the work
by the organization or partners
• Need for gender expertise and /or vs different
disciplines integrating gender in their activities

Gender Strategy
• Highlight the gender goals and objectives
• Synthesizes and highlight the different parts of
the proposal where gender is mainstreamed and
states the big picture goals and objectives of
conducting gender analysis and research and
how these contribute to the overall goals and
objectives of the program
• Summarize the key implementation strategies to
be used

Budget
• Specifies the costs associated with staffing
and capacity building needed to conduct
the gender activities proposed.
• Highlight any gender specific activities and
the budget allocated to these
• If these are combined n other activities,
ensure there is clarity on what proportion
of the budget is allocated to gender related
activities

Monitoring and Evaluation
• Present a plan for a gender-responsive
M&E system for strategy level goals as well
as thematic research areas and articulates
clear plans on how the results of gender
responsive M&E will be systematically
used for:
– Assessing impacts on interventions on men,
women and other groups
– design and development of programs and
technologies
– dissemination and adoption