This document discusses how to better integrate gender equality into activities. It recommends conducting a participatory gender audit to analyze current efforts and decide on areas for improvement. Key aspects for implementing activities with gender equality outcomes include quality preparation and design, promoting gender equality during implementation, monitoring for gender outcomes, and ensuring reports discuss gender against design requirements. The document asks readers to analyze their individual and sectoral strengths, weaknesses and challenges in order to identify ways to better ensure gender equality in activity outcomes.

1. How can we do this better?

2.  Participatory gender audit
 Analyse what we are doing in our sectors to
integrate gender equality into IndII activities
 Decide what we can do better
 Support each other to better implement
gender equality in IndII activities

3.  Increased emphasis on gender following review of
effectiveness of AusAID program
 IndII’s results on gender stock-take 2011 – out of 4
categories where 4 is the lowest, we were:
category 3
 IndII’s improved ranking during implementation - 2
 Where do we want to be if there is another gender
stock-take? - …

4.  What is gender really about?
 Power relationships between women and men
 Who has control?
 decisions
 positions and leadership
 assets and resources
 Who gets to participate?
 who is able to express their needs and concerns
 who has access to information/communication
 opportunities to be involved eg training, paid work etc
 Are women and men benefiting fairly or equally
from activities and programs?

5.  To implement activities with gender equality
outcomes at institutional and community
levels
 Disability?

6.  Quality preparation and design of activity
 Screening tool > actions which can be integrated into the design
 Preparatory activities such as Scoping Study where there are likely to be high gender impacts –
ensure analysis of gender issues to be addressed in design
 Gender equality objectives if high gender equality impact
 Gender sensitive indicators for collection of gender disaggregated data eg training
participants; access to watsan; hygiene activities; membership of committees, organisations
 Appropriate gender specialist resources specified in the design or implementing consultants’
team if significant gender impact
 Promoting and communicating about gender equality to implementing consultants
especially TLs, counterparts (eg meeting with DGLT yesterday), LGs, community
 Do you do this? Have you missed opportunities?
 Monitoring implementation of activities for gender outcomes, collecting sex
disaggregated data, looking for successes, making improvements > making sure
implementation complies with any gender design requirements
 Do you always do this with regard to gender - and other cross cutting issues?
 What do you do if you see that implementation doesn’t comply?
 Reports discuss what is being implemented and the outcomes, against the design
requirements
 Do you always check that reports refer to the design requirements for gender and other cross cutting
issues?
 If the reports don’t, what do you do?

7.  What are you doing now as individuals and in
your sectors to ensure gender equality in
your activities’ outcomes?
Analyse:
 What are your strengths?
 What are your weaknesses?
 What are the things that are making it difficult?

8. How can you do better
as individuals and in
your sectors?
 Tip: Don’t just focus on
weaknesses. Can your strengths be
improved?