3. WHAT IS GENDER ANALYSIS ?
•Gender Analysisisthe process of analyzing information in order
to ensure that development benefits and resources are effectively
and equitably targeted to both women and men, and to
successfullyanticipate and avoid any negative impacts
development interventions may have on women or gender
relations.
•-“A methodology for collectingand processing information
about gender. It provides disaggregated data by sex, and an
understanding of the social construction of gender roles, and how
labor is divided and valued.” (UNDP)
•-Gender Analysis is conductedthrough a variety of tools and
frameworks
4. When Do You Conduct a
Gender Analysis?
Gender Analysis should be undertaken at all
stages of a program/project cycle, including:
Identification the projector activity;
Planningor design of the activity;
Implementation; and
Monitoringand evaluation
5. What is Gender-
Mainstreaming?
•GenderMainstreaming is aprocess to
ensure that both men and women have
•equal access to and control over
resources,
•decision-making, and benefits atall
stages of the development process and
projects.
6. A Strategy for Gender
Mainstreaming
lClearPolicy
lAssessment of pastPerformance
lActionPlan
lEffectivePartnerships
lTraining and Research
7. Implicit Assumptions of Development Programs
Assumptions during Project design and implementation:
lMen are the head of household->
lProject activities for economic benefits should focus men
lHousework or child care is not much efforts->
lWomen can handle outside work with housework,
lwomen’s priorities go unnoticed
lWomen do care-work->
lInterventions related to family health should focus women
lDevelopment benefits will automatically reach women
8. OBJECTIVES
lTolearn about the position of womenin terms of access to activities
and decision making process in agricultural activities the status of
rural women, along with the problems faced by them, and the
obstacles for them to decide in the agriculture related issues.
lToexamine the decision making process of womenwith regard to
agricultural economic activities (food crops, livestock production,
horticultural crops, income and marketing activities of agricultural
products.
lTo launch programs, trainings and motivational projectsto built
lconfidence for rural women decision making process
land to increase their family as well as socio-economic status.
9. ............objectives (cont.)
Result will also be useful informulating gender sensitive plans,
lespecially in the agricultural decisions making processes
land enhance the role of women in agriculture development
activities
lof rural women in Meudihawa,Rupandehi.
10. GenderDivision of Labor
•Men and women are assigned
differentroles, responsibilities and
activities according towhat society
considers appropriate.
•Furthermore, these roles are given
relativevalues.
•Men and women have multiple roles
•Mostly related to work:
lproductive
lreproductive
lcommunity
11. Key Questions in Conducting
a Gender Analysis
Who does what? Are the roles, responsibilities, and priorities of men and
women, both within and outside the household, different?
lWho owns what?
lWhocontrols what?
lWhohas access to what?
lArethere differences among women and men?
lIf there aredifferentialsin the above two areas, what are the institutional,
economic, and social factors that underlie, support, or influence them?
12. Methodology
Selectionof study area: Siddharthanagar-
3Meudihawa,Rupandehi
lCollection of data: Done by respondents’
interview
lInterview schedule design: The questionnaire
was prepared
13. Methodologycontd..
lPre-testing of questionnaire:Pre-tested at
lRupandehi2Paklihawa
lHousehold survey: conducted by face-to-face
linterviews.
lData editing, coding and entry: Interviewswas
ltranscribed and
lanalyzed using various tools and software
14. Sn. Socioioeconomic characters mean (n=50) SD (n=50)
1 Family member 7.4 3.9538
2 Active pop'n 3.34 2.5363
3 male no 3.48 2.3678
4 female no 3.84 2.103
5 educated no 5.26 2.6787
6 male income 22840 14609.698
7 female income 1740 4029.53
8 maleexpnd 19380 10046.606
9 fml expnd 1140 3350.358
10 total land own 96.54 102.5651
11 khet own 60.12 75.015
13 khet tenure 33 62.8
14 bari own 3.42 6.99
15 bari tenure 0 0
16 Agriculture income 160063.8298 181441.01
17 Working Hours per day 8.11 1.91
ANALYSIS TOOLS
15. Pro
duct
ive
Role
s
Sn. Particulars Male Female Both Total
A. Farm activities
1 Land prepatation 49 0 1 50
2 Seed sowing 13 19 18 50
3 Inter cultural operations 5 28 17 50
4 Irrigation 39 2 9 50
5 Fertilizer application 5 35 10 50
6 Pesticide application 44 2 4 50
7 Harvesting 5 8 37 50
8 Storage 9 7 34 50
9 Recording 33 2 14 49
10 Marketing 25 6 19 50
11 Others
16. Deci
sion
mak
ing
role
s:
Sn. Particulars Male Female Both Total
A. Farmactivities
1 Land prepatation 35 0 15 50
2 Seed sowing 16 13 21 50
3 Inter cultural operations 23 3 24 50
4 Irrigation 25 4 21 50
5 Fertilizer application 30 0 20 50
6 Pesticide application 29 0 21 50
7 Harvesting 21 5 24 50
8 Storage 17 6 27 50
9 Recording Marketing ag products
10 Marketing
11 Others
18. EXPECTEDRESULTS
Status of womenin the access over resources decision making
process in regard to agricultural economics will be identified.
Divisionof farm labor in agricultural activitieswill
beidentified.
Time and income biasesin involvement of agricultural activities
in both
home and community will be known.
Obstacle forwomen to participate in decision making process
will be identified.
Theneed for training in agricultural issues and motivational
skillswill be recognized
20. CONCLUSION
lReport contributed us in achieving greater understandingof roles
of women and men play in different stages of agriculture
aswell as other production and income generating activities.
lWe found unevendistribution of gender roles within the area
(Meudihawa)whichoccurred because women were confined to
the household activities and the ones who were engaged in the
external works were merely a source of labor also productive as
well as the decision making roles were performed by males who
acted as head of the family
lSo, statusof women was found to be poor compared to men.
22. Suggestions
lBoth the gender should be made aware about their independent
roles in society.
lPeople should emphasizein women empowerment.
lParticipation of women innot merely household works but also
ineconomic development and community roles.
lEncourage the policy makers and working organizations to focus
on real needs of women in rural Nepal.
lAs agricultural roles are taken into consideration women’s can be
provided with trainingin agricultural issues.