Poverty and Gender Analysis, Meaning Definition, Strategies

1. Mr.Prahlada G
Faculty
Department of Social Work
University College of Arts,
Tumkur University, Tumkur

2. Sex is the biological difference between men and
women. Sex differences are concerned with men's
and women's bodies. Men produce sperm; women
bear and breastfeed children. Sexual differences are
the same throughout the human race.
Sex

3. • . Our gender identity determines how we are
perceived, and how we are expected to think and
act as women and men, because of the way
society is organised.
Gender

4. • These are the social relationships between men as
a sex and women as a sex
• Gender relations are concerned with how power is
distributed between the sexes
Gender Relations

5. • Such an analysis explores and highlights the
relationships of women and men in society, and the
inequalities in those relationships, by asking:
• : Who does what? Who has what? Who decides?
How? Who gains? Who loses? When we pose
these questions, we also ask: Which men? Which
women?

6. • Gender (or sexual) division of labour
• Production
• Reproduction
• Access to, and control over, resources
• Gender classifications of policies

7. • Participatory Poverty Assessments (PPAs) were
developed during the early 1990s with the aim of
increasing the participation of poor people in the
processes of formulating and implementing policy
for poverty alleviation.

8. • is the approach to analyzing and reducing poverty
by incorporating the views of the poor. PPAs
attempt to better understand the poor, to give the
poor more influence over decisions that affect their
lives, and to increase effectiveness of poverty
reduction policies. PPAs are seen as complements
to traditional household surveys by helping to
interpret survey results, and aim to capture the
experiences of the poor by being more open-
ended.

9. • A PPA is an iterative, participatory research
process that seeks to understand poverty from the
perspective of a range of stakeholders, and to
involve them directly in planning follow-up action
• World Bank

10. • A participatory poverty assessment (PPA) is an
instrument for including the perspectives of poor
people in the analysis of poverty and the
formulation of strategies to reduce it.
• Department for International Development, UK.

11. • Improve understanding of poverty
• Ensure that poverty reduction strategies reflect the
priorities expressed by the poor
• Promote a wide ownership of proposed solutions
• Build capacity for poverty analysis and policy design

12. • Case study presentation and active listening
• Card sorting
• Presenting and refining the framework
• Coding the data
• Report writing

13. • Involvement of key stakeholders
• Identification of key issues
• Selecting the Sampling
• Use appropriate Methods

16. Thank
You