Gender and health
Gender manual: a practical guide for development policy makers and practitioners
How to recognise and address gender issues in development
Authors:
H. Derbyshire
Publisher:
Department for International Development, UK, 2002
This gender manual is designed to help non-gender specialists in recognising and addressing gender issues in their work. The intention is to demystify gender, make the concept and practice of gender “mainstreaming” accessible to a wide audience, and clarify when to call in specialist help.
The manual is intended to be enabling rather than prescriptive. It focuses on the processes of gender mainstreaming which are similar in all sectoral and regional contexts, and also similar, in some instances, to other processes of social development and organisational change. The manual arises from (and is intended to complement) the DFID GEM website.
The manual is divided into four main sections, covering:
- section 1: background ideas and concepts
- section 2: an outline of gender mainstreaming "in a nutshell"
- section 3: practical tools and guidelines for gender mainstreamining
- section 4: information on the GEM website
