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Gender Concepts

Addis AbabaAddis Ababa

October 2013 October 2013

Objectives of the Training

1. To refresh selected gender concepts so as to have better understanding for engendering the VCD.

2. To share experience among participants on gender issues and related concepts in various VC projects.

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(Option 1) Matching and Gallery Walk Exercise

Please discuss and match selected gender concepts: Words, phrases with their corresponding definitions.

Tips: Time allowed: 45’ First, brainstorm the meaning for the word, phrase or

definition you have, Then, move around, discuss with your partner & find the

right match for the word, phrase or definition you have, Once you both reached at consensus, post them on the wall

the wall, Finally, do gallery walk to see, refresh and comment on

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(Option 2):Identify Gender issues and Concepts

Discuss and identify major gender issues and their implications.

Tips:- Time allowed: 45’ Be in the small group you belong to, Discuss & identify gender issues and their

implication, Presentation and discussion on group outputs.

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(Option 2 Exercise) Identifying Gender Issues & their implications in the following VC Projects

Tips: 1) Time allowed: 45’2. Be in the small group you belong to,3. Discuss & identify gender issues and their implication, 4. Presentation and discussion on group outputs

Intervention/activity Obvious Unsure – May be gender issues

No gender issues

If you agree that there is gender issue, mention the gender Implications

1. Improved Agricultural and Livestock Production Technologies and Support Services

2. Marketing Development and Micro-Enterprise Support

3. Agri-Business Development

4. Improving Nutrition and Household Food Security

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Show short gender film

Selected from YouTube (Angelica ??)

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Gender Roles

These are different tasks, responsibilities

and expectations that the society has defined and prescribed to men and women; girls and boys.

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Gender Division of Labour

The work, roles, and responsibilities assigned to

women and men based on gender,

which is unfairly happened

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Productive Role

Work done by both women and men for pay in cash or kind, while mainly monopolized by men.

Done in the public sphere & Valued & recognized as “real job”

E.g. Employment, agri for cash, business for money.

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Reproductive Role

Child rearing responsibilities and domestic tasks done by women or/and

men, required to guarantee the maintenance of the family.

E.g. domestic and care work such as cooking, cleaning, childcare and looking

after sick relatives, subsistence agriculture, and collecting water, fuel and

wild food.

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Community Role

Activities undertaken at the community level by men and women;

as an extension of their productive and reproductive role, to ensure the provision and maintenance of social expectations;

This is “voluntary” and unpaid work, undertaken in 'free' time.

E.g. Helping neighbours, organizing social events, and so on.

Reproductive and Community work tend to be unpaid and taken for granted

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Practical Gender Needs

These are gender needs that women and men can easily identify, as they relate to living conditions for immediate needs.

Focuses on improving conditions.

It does not challenge the structure.

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Strategic Gender Needs

These are gender based needs about getting more choices, more options or more voice.

They focus on fundamental issues related to women's and men's subordination & gender inequities.

It refers a long-term need like structural change such as legislation for equal rights and challenges the system.

Focuses on improving position.

Gender Equity

Means fairness of treatment for women and men according to their respective needs.

May include equal treatment, but often women and men need to receive different treatment in order to receive the same benefits and to experience their rights.

It often requires built-in measures to compensate for the historical and social disadvantages of women (such as restrictions on mobility or access to education). Or it may mean projects are targeted to women only

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Gender Equality

Both men & women are free to develop their personal abilities & make choices without the limitations set by stereotypes, rigid gender roles, or prejudices.

It does not mean that women and men have to become the same, but that their rights, responsibilities & opportunities will not depend on whether they are born male or female.

It means an equal visibility & empowerment of both sexes in all spheres of public and private life.

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GM…

It is a globally accepted strategy for promoting gender equality and to make gender equality as central issues @ all

activities - policy development, research, advocacy/ dialogue, legislation, resource allocation, and planning, implementation

and monitoring of programms and projects.

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GM…

It is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns, experiences

and needs an integral dimension of the design,

implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes

in the socio-economic and political spheres so that women and men

benefit equally, and inequality is not perpetuated.

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“IF DEVELOPMENT IS NOT

ENGENDERED, IT IS IN DANGER”

Kofi Annan, ex- UN General Sect. 19