Gender-disaggregated data for agriculture and rural development: guide for facilitators

Gender-Disaggregated Data provides a vital perspective for understanding people's livelihoods and for improving food security. This guide was produced as a result of demands on the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations(FAO) to collect and make accessible gender-disaggregated data and statistics for agricultural programme and policy development, as well as for monitoring and evaluation activities. It provides a package of practical facilitation materials to assist training on new approaches to policy design and planning within agricultural ministries, national statistics offices, NGOs and other relevant institutions. The materials and methodologies were largely developed during three FAO workshops held in Nairobi, Uganda and Zambia in 2001. The package is broken down into three thematic modules that are taught over a ten day workshop. It provides exercises that lead towards an understanding of what gender-disaggregated data is and why it is important. It is intended to better integrate a gender perspective in the design, collection, tabulation, analysis, interpretation and presentation of agricultural information.

• Module one provides an introduction to gender concepts and gender-disaggregated data with a focus on defining gender terminology and issues, review of the policy context and national perspective on gender and development concepts and implementation.
• Module two works through methods for applying gender concepts in order to analyse and interpret data.
• In module three the concepts and methods studied in modules one and two are adapted and applied to participants specific projects.