Introduction to livelihoods and gender
Policy planning and implementation overview: gender mainstreaming
DFID key issues brief on gender mainstreaming policy
Authors:
L. Hanmer; Department for International Development
Publisher:
Overseas Development Institute, London, 2001
Produced as part of the DFID briefing series on sustainable livelihoods, this concise two-page key sheet provides an overview of concepts and analytical frameworks for gender mainstreaming.
The briefing notes the importance of the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework for analysing the constraints which women and men experience in the realisation of their human rights. Policy commitments to gender mainstreaming cannot be allowed to be evaporate in processes of policy and planning.
It notes how gender discrimination affects women’s livelihood opportunities; barring them from equal access to assets such as land, which in turn affects their ability to access credit.
The briefing also mentions that PRSPs and SWAps are complex processes of negotiation, with many stakeholders. Gender must be prioritised within these negotiations, if sustainable livelihood approaches are to become more responsive to women’s particular livelihood roles and needs.
