The document emphasizes the importance of gender-sensitive planning in development, which integrates gender perspectives into policy and project design to address inequalities and ensure equitable opportunities for all. It highlights the significant roles women play in development as educators and agents of change, particularly in rural communities, while also detailing the need for gender indicators to assess progress. Ultimately, the document advocates for participatory processes in planning to improve outcomes and accountability in implementing policies and programs.

1. URMIKANT MANINANDAN SAHU

2. INTRODUCTION
 Gender should be synonymous with development as it provides a holistic
approach to planning for societal progress.
 It addresses both the roles of male and female, their needs, as well as
social relations and their positions in developing societies.
Gender Planning refers to the process of planning and designing
the implementation phases of policies, programmes, or projects from a
the implementation phases of policies, programmes, or projects from a
gender perspective.
 Gender planning focuses on the interrelationship between gender and
development, the formulation of gender policy and the implementation of
gender planning practice.
 Fairness and equity demands that everyone in society, whether male or
female has the right to the same opportunities to achieve a full and
satisfying life.
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3. OBJECTIVES
Integrating a gender perspective into the planning and design of
policies, programmes and projects requires,
 Recognition of gender gaps & structural inequalities that need to be
tackled in a given context.
 Definition of gender-policy objectives and the formulation of appropriate
approaches & steps to achieve them.
approaches & steps to achieve them.
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4. Gender Planning stems from the recognition that different groups
of women and men have different needs, different levels of access and
control over resources, and different opportunities and constraints.
Gender planning pays particular attention to unequal gender
relations & structure inequalities.
It aims to –
 Transform unequal gender relations in different policy areas by
responding to the needs of women and men and through a more even
responding to the needs of women and men and through a more even
distribution of resources, actions, responsibility and power.
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5. IMPORTANCE OF GENDER PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
 Enables policy makers to understand gender inequalities when planning
an intervention.
 Adopting a gender perspective in the planning stage contributes
prevention loopholes in implementation process.
ROLE OF WOMAN IN DEVELOPMENT
 Role of woman in society has ensured the stability, progress & long term
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 Role of woman in society has ensured the stability, progress & long term
development of nations.
 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) established a special
division for women in development, promoting concrete action to ensure
women participation in UNDP projects.
 India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA)
programme – which guarantees at least 100 days employment a year for
rural women.

6.  Rural women are key agent for development. They play a catalytic role
towards achievement of transformational economic and environmental
and social changes required for sustainable development.
Role of woman as educators :
 Education can improve agricultural productivity, enhance the status of
girls and women, reduce population growth rates, enhance
environmental protection, and wisely raise the standards of living.
 The role of women is at the front end of the chain of improvements
 The role of women is at the front end of the chain of improvements
leading to the families, the community’s long term capacity.
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7. Role of woman in the workforce:
 Women’s small business in rural developing communities not only can be
extended family’s lifeline, but can come from a networked economic
foundation for future generations.
 The role of women in the urban and rural workforce has expanded
exponentially in recent decades.
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8. GENDER SENSITIVE PLANNING
 Gender-sensitive planning ensures that gender issues & considerations
identified in gender analysis are taken into account in the
planning, design & implementation phase.
 This includes the process of formulating appropriate gender equality
results and developing corresponding strategies & activities.
 Gender sensitive planning helps to demonstrate change in gender
 Gender sensitive planning helps to demonstrate change in gender
relation (i.e. relations between women & men) in a given society over a
period of time through gender sensitive indicators.
 The indicators are used to assess progress in achieving gender equality
by measuring changes in the status of women and men over a period of
time.
 Need for gender-sensitive planning seeks to ensure equitable
opportunities and equal outcomes for women and men.
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9. NEED
 Introducing a gender perspective
into planning of policies,
programmes and projects enables
women’s and men’s needs to be
made visible and to be addressed.
 The inclusion of a gender
perspective in the planning process
enables policy makers to
perspective in the planning process
enables policy makers to
understand gender inequalities
when planning an intervention,
thereby avoiding perpetuating them
during the implementation of a
policy, programme or project, and
achieving better results.
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Women in workforce
Not willing
Others
Willing
Labour

10.  In addition, adopting a participatory process for gender planning, for
example; by consulting with different stakeholders tribute to increasing
the relevance for the people affected by the policy or programme, its
transparency and the accountability of those in charge of
implementation, and to avoid conflicts in the implementation phase.
INDICATORS
 Gender indicators are the tools or measure(s) upon which data is
collected and assess the progress of a particular development
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collected and assess the progress of a particular development
intervention towards achieving gender equality.
 Gender-sensitive indicators are indicators divides on the basis of
sex, age and socio-economic background.
 They are designed to demonstrate changes in relations between women
and men in a given society over a period of time.
 It is of two types i.e. Quantitative Indicator and Qualitative Indicator.

11. Quantitative Indicators:
It shows the magnitude of changes in gender equality over time.
Example: the percentage of women married before the age of 15 or the
percentage of girl child getting education.
Qualitative Indicators:
It focuses on people’s experiences, opinions, attitudes and feelings.
Participatory methods are used to collect data for qualitative indicators.
Data can also be collected through in-depth surveys measuring
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Data can also be collected through in-depth surveys measuring
perceptions and opinions. Example: women’s experiences of the
constraints or advantages of working in the informal sector.
PARTICIPATION & OUTCOME
The term participation is open to very broad interpretation - even within
a single agricultural planning process, different stakeholders may give it
different definitions. Participation does not always involve all
stakeholders, and may be limited to certain groups within community.

12. According to a study, it can take place at a number of different levels:
 It may be related to elite groups only (elected representatives).
 People may be consulted from very start & take active part in the planning &
management projects.
 People may be asked to legitimate or ratify projects that have been identified
and formulated by govt, but do not participate in detailed planning and
management of the project.
 Different social & occupational groups may be represented in all the planning,
co-ordination & evaluation mechanisms at all levels, including the highest
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 Different social & occupational groups may be represented in all the planning,
co-ordination & evaluation mechanisms at all levels, including the highest
policy- making level.
 Representatives of these groups may control the decisions at all levels.

13. ISSUES & ALTERNATIVES
 There are multi-optional pre formative planning approaches, they do not
follow the regular means-end logic of planning; instead participation
plays a major role.
 Prevention of discriminatory planning practice by taking the social
construction itself of typical categories such as gender, age, race &
disability at starting point.
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disability at starting point.
 An-other safety related issue is the need to improve access to schools
for girls.
 When schools are located far away from home, student can not attend
the classes because of safety issues and economic reasons.
 Educational planners must figure out the new strategy for the Students
to bring schooling closer to the students.

14. THANK YOU
Presented by:
Urmikant Maninandan Sahu