Training Course on Gender Analysis (GPC011)
Training Course on Gender Analysis
Gender Analysis comprises of a series of tools and frameworks utilized to gather information around gender issues relevant to a specific sector. The analysis will analyze gender dynamics such as how men and women interact with each other, how they access resources, opportunities and limitations that apply to them.
The analysis utilizes various techniques aimed at understanding the root causes of gender inequality in a particular context and thereafter developing appropriate programs or policies to address the identified gender issues.
The training equips participants with the skills and knowledge to conduct a gender analysis. It is targeted towards project staff charged with formulating and implementing projects to help ensure that gender issues are systematically targeted and addressed at each stage of the project cycle.
Course Duration
Online Training: 5 days (4hrs per day)
Classroom Training: 5 days (7hrs per day)
Course Objectives
By attending the Gender Analysis training course you will be able to:
- Understand key gender concepts and gender analysis tools
- Understand the different gender analysis frameworks and their application
- Choose an appropriate gender analysis framework
- Conduct a gender analysis assessment
- Understand the role of gender analysis in mainstreaming gender
- Integrate gender into strategic and operational planning
Course Outline
Module 1: Key Gender Concepts
- What is gender?
- Sex and gender
- Gender norms, perceptions, and expectations
- Gender roles
- Gender equity, gender equality, and gender gaps
- Gender-based violence
Module 2: Overview of Gender Mainstreaming in Projects
- What is gender mainstreaming?
- The need for gender mainstreaming in projects
- Guiding principles in gender mainstreaming
- The process of GM in a project lifecycle
Module 3: Introduction to Gender Analysis
- Key concepts in gender analysis
- Domains in gender analysis
- Gender analysis frameworks and their application
- Role of gender analysis in mainstreaming gender
Module 4: Introduction to Gender Analysis Frameworks
- Comparing gender frameworks
- Understanding the different purposes of the gender analysis frameworks
- Understanding the limitations of each gender analysis framework
- Choosing an appropriate framework
Module 5: Harvard Analytical Framework
- Background of the Framework
- Aims of the Framework
- Harvard Tool 1: The Activity Profile
- Harvard Tool 2: The Access and Control Profile - resources and benefit
- Harvard Tool 3: Influencing factors
- Harvard Tool 4: Checklist for Project-Cycle Analysis
(Case study and class discussion)
Module 6: People-Oriented Planning Framework
- Background of the Framework
- Aims of the Framework
- Components of the Framework
- POP Tool 1: Refugee Population Profile and Context Analysis
- POP Tool 2: The Activities Analysis
- POP Tool 3: Use and Control of Resources Analysis
(Case study and class discussion)
Module 7: Moser Framework
- Background of the Framework
- Aims of the Framework
- Components of the Framework
- Moser Tool 1: Gender roles identification triple role
- Moser Tool 2: Gender needs assessment
- Moser Tool 3: Disaggregating control of resources and decision-making within the household
- Moser Tool 4: Planning for balancing the triple role
- Moser Tool 5: Distinguishing between different aims in interventions: the
- WID/GAD Policy Matrix
- Moser Tool 6: Involving women, and gender-aware organizations and planners, in planning
(Case Study and Class Discussion)
Module 8: Gender Analysis Matrix (GAM) Framework
- Background of the Framework
- Aims of the Framework
- Components of the Framework
- GAM Tool 1: Analysis at four levels of society
- GAM Tool 2: Analysis of four kinds of impact
(Case study and class discussion)
Module 9: Womens Empowerment (Longwe) Framework
- Background of the Framework
- Aims of the Framework
- Components of the Framework
- Womens Empowerment Tool 1: Levels of equality
- Womens Empowerment Tool 2: Level of recognition of womens issues
(Case study and class discussion)
Module 10: Social Relations Approach
- Background of the Framework
- Aims of the Framework
- Components of the Framework
- Social Relations Approach Concept 1: Development as increasing human well-being
- Social Relations Approach Concept 2: Social relations
- Social Relations Approach Concept 3: Institutional analysis
- Social Relations Approach Concept 4: Institutional gender policies
- Social Relations Approach Concept 5: Immediate, underlying, and structural causes
(Case study and class discussion)
Module 11: Gender Analysis Methodology
- Data collection methods and tools
- Sampling methodology
- Data analysis
- Gender analysis report (Case Studies and discussion)
- Gender analysis validation and reflection workshop
Note: The specific content, activities, and duration of each session may be adjusted based on the target audience, learning objectives, and available time.
Course Language
English
Training Methodology
Presentations are well guided, practical exercise, a plenary presentation, and group work. Participants are encouraged to bring any data relevant to their job responsibilities. This is hands-on, product-oriented training and will mostly involve practical exercises. Each participant MUST bring along their own working laptop and android phone.
Certification
Upon completion of training, the participant will be issued with a certificate of Completion.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the Training Course on Gender Analysis course.
Gender analysis is the systematic examination of how gender — and its intersections with age, disability, ethnicity and other identities — shapes people's roles, access to resources, decision-making power and vulnerability in a specific context. It is the foundation of any gender-responsive project: without gender analysis, design decisions rely on assumptions. Donors increasingly require gender analysis at concept-note stage. This course teaches you to plan, conduct, analyse and write up a credible gender analysis.
The most widely used frameworks include the Harvard Analytical Framework (activity, access and control profiles), the Moser Framework (triple role, practical vs strategic gender needs), the Gender at Work Framework (four-quadrant analysis of formal and informal change), and donor-specific tools like USAID ADS 205 and FCDO's gender equality analysis. Each framework foregrounds different dimensions of gender. The course walks you through choosing and combining them for your sector and question.
A credible gender analysis report includes: context and scope, methodology and sample, findings on gender roles and time use, access to and control over resources, decision-making and power, gender-based violence and protection risks, intersectional analysis, and — critically — programmatic recommendations that link findings to specific design and M&E decisions. Donors reject "descriptive" gender analyses that stop at findings; the course emphasises the recommendations and integration steps that make a gender analysis actionable.
Gender officers, M&E and research staff, programme designers, and communications teams that need to ground their work in sex- and gender-disaggregated evidence. Government planning officers and donor staff reviewing gender evidence in proposals also attend.
We work through the most-used applied frameworks — the Harvard Analytical Framework, the Moser Framework and the Gender Analysis Matrix (GAM) — and then compare them so you can pick the right tool for your context. You also practice collecting, coding and analyzing qualitative and quantitative gender data.
Not a heavy background. The course uses simple descriptive statistics (disaggregation, cross-tabulation) and straightforward qualitative techniques. If you can read a programme log frame you have enough to follow the whole course.
Both formats are offered. You leave with a draft gender analysis report for a real project or study area of your choice — peer-reviewed in the cohort — plus the Perk Group Africa certificate of completion with a verification code.
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