This document outlines a webinar series on gender and targeting from IFAD and provides guidance on developing targeting and gender strategies. It discusses where these strategies fit within the project cycle and provides templates to guide their development, including elements to cover, checklists of features to address, and implementation arrangements. The goal is to integrate gender considerations throughout project design, implementation, and evaluation to ensure activities are effectively targeted and make a difference in empowering women.

1. IFAD’s Gender and Targeting Webinar Series
Purpose of the webinar series
Webinar programme
• 29 April – Livelihoods and gender analysis
• 20 May – Targeting and gender strategies
• 17 June – Monitoring and impact indicators
• Other topics – Household methodologies

2. Practical tips on preparing targeting and
gender strategies
Structure
I. Targeting and gender
strategies in project cycle
II. Elements of targeting strategy
and checklist *
III. Elements of gender strategy
and checklist*
IV. Implementation arrangements*
V. Putting it all together *
* Opportunity for contributions

3. I. Where is T&G strategy formulation in the
project cycle?
Identification
Design
Implementation and
monitoring
Evaluation
I. Gender and
livelihoods analysis
II. Targeting
and gender
strategies and
mechanisms
III. Operational measures,
indicators, monitoring
IV. Evaluation
and impact
assessment
IFAD staff/
consultants
PMU staff/
consultants

4. Targeting and gender in project cycle

5. Targeting and gender process
Rural livelihoods
Project design + indicators
Gender strategyTargeting strategy
Project implementation + M&E
Project impact
Gender analysisSocio-economic analysis
Target group profile

6. II. Elements of targeting strategy
Direct and self
targeting
Empowering Enabling
Typology of target group
• Resources, skills
• Access to services
• Livelihoods (in context of project)
• Vulnerabilities
• Coping mechanisms
• Needs and priorities
Procedural,
implementation
and monitoring
Target group
Priority needs
Impact assessment and evaluation
Geographic targeting
Procedural, implementation
and monitoring

7. Targeting checklist
Design features
Target group Definition, socio-economic analysis, likely interest
Geographic
targeting
Remote areas, concentration of target group
Direct targeting Quotas, specific activities, ear-marked funds
Self targeting Value chains, non-farm enterprises, group
operations,
Empowering Literacy classes, labour saving technologies
Enabling Land tenure legislation, staff development
Procedural Eligibility criteria, application procedures, child
care

8. III. Elements of gender strategy
Economic empowerment
• Access and control over resources
• Participation in profitable activities
• Access and control over benefits
Decision-making and representation
• Within households
• Savings and credit groups, micro-finance
institutions, producer organizations
• Community bodies eg water user assocs
Equitable workload balance
• Rural infrastructure and services
• Labour-saving technologies
• Equitable balance between
benefits/ remuneration

9. Gender checklist
(adaptable to youth, indigenous peoples and others for social inclusion)
Design features
Target group Poverty and livelihoods from gender
perspective
Economic
empowerment
Access and control over resources
Skills and knowledge
Decision making and
representation
Membership and leadership training
Quotas
Equitable workload
and sharing in
benefits
Labour saving technologies
Household methodologies

10. IV. Implementation arrangements
Design features
PMU staff Skills, composition, responsibilities, gender
specialist/focal point, training
M&E Collection, analysis and reporting of sex-
disaggregated data, gender-sensitive indicators
PMU internal
procedures
Implementation manual, AWPB, gender strategy,
progress reports, supervision missions
PMU external
procedures
Networking, policy dialogue
Implementing
partners and
service
providers
Demonstrable commitment and experience, joint
communications strategy, joint missions
Community Participatory planning, eligibility criteria

11. V. Putting it all together
Poverty
and gender
analysis of
rural
livelihoods
Target group
characteristics
and priority
needs
Impact
Implementation
arrangements
Direct targeting
Empowering measures
Procedural measures
Enabling measures
Self-targeting
Equitable workloads
Dec-making+represent
Economic empower
Why Who and where
Does it
make a
difference?
How to implement
and when
What
How to
deliver

12. What happens next
Project design
• Working paper = foundation
• Aide memoire
• Project design report
• Main text
• Annex 2: 6 pages, with T and G checklists
• Inputs to other annexes: project components, M&E,
indicators, TORs for project staff and partners
• Logframe
Project implementation
• Project implementation manual
• Launch/start-up workshop
• Fully-developed gender strategy

13. Outline for full strategy
1. Introduction (0.5 page): Context, Rationale
2. Vision or Goal (30 words or less!)
3. Gender Mainstreaming within project activities (3-5 pages)
4. Gender mainstreaming at the organizational level ( 3 pages)
5. Implementation (2 pages)
6. Costs and financing (2 pages)
7. Risk Management ( 0.5 page)
8. Results Framework (1 page)

14. VI. Conclusion
Webinar programme
29 April – Livelihoods and gender analysis
20 May – Targeting and gender strategies
17 June – Monitoring and impact indicators
Other topics – Household methodologies
Recap
I. Targeting and gender strategies in project cycle
II. Elements of targeting strategy and checklist
III. Elements of gender strategy and checklist
IV. Implementation arrangements
V. Putting it all together