Seven Steps to a Gender Analysis

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Seven Steps to a Gender Analysis

RECOMMENDED BY: DEB LEVINE GENDER EQUITY UNIT

15 minutes

The 2016 Jhpiego Gender Analysis Toolkit for Health Systems outlines a seven-step process for conducting gender analyses when designing public health programs. Following this practical framework enables programs to address gender-based barriers, roles, and specific needs within diverse cultural contexts. The aim of such analysis is to make programs more impactful, ethical, and sustainable.

By:

Deborah Caro, PhD, Caitlin Nordehn and Myra Betron JHPIEGO, USAID Maternal Child Survival Program, Cultural Practice

This seven-step process for conducting gender analysis is part of the Jhpiego Gender Analysis Toolkit for Health Systems. This Toolkit provides public health practitioners globally a set of best practices for gender integration, aiming to advance health and gender equity goals together through systematic analysis grounded in each cultural context.

Key benefits include tailoring design and messaging to engage both men and women based on their distinct gendered needs and perspectives; identifying barriers encountered by women and other marginalized groups in accessing services; understanding power relations that affect health-related decisions; and monitoring differential impacts of interventions on gender subgroups over time.

Download the brief: https://genderhealthdata.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SEVEN-STEPS-TO-A-GENDER-ANALYSIS-Gender-Analysis-Toolkit-For-Health-Systems-Jhpiego-Gender-Ana.pdf

Download the Jhpiego Gender Analysis Toolkit for Health Systems: https://gender.jhpiego.org/analysistoolkit/introduction/