Published by Oxfam GB's UK Poverty Programme

Gender analysis has been used in international development for many years. It is now widely recognised that a better understanding of the particular needs of women and men makes a significant difference in the fight against poverty and disadvantage. This hands-on guide is designed to help those working in local government or the voluntary sector to plan and deliver services which will have a real impact on the everyday - different - lives of women and men.

See Both Sides provides invaluable strategy, training exercises, and impact assessment tools, and shares examples from the experience of an organisation providing services to lone parents. They successfully used gender analysis to widen their target group, revitalise existing services and develop new ones. The process enabled them to understand better who lone parents are, recognise that welfare structures do not always reach them in their diversity, and change their work to reflect the reality of the ways in which parents share care.

There is much common ground between gender and other equality areas: See Both Sides can also be used to support work on race, disability, and other equalities.

CONTENTS

• Introduction: Seeing both sides: gender analysis in service delivery
  
  
• Background: Where the guide came from
  
  
• Chapt er 1: Understanding assumptions and stereotypes
  • Exercise 1: Airing views and building consensus
    
  • Exercise 2: Who speaks who listens?
    
  • Exercise 3: What is gender?
    
  • Handout: What is gender
    
  • Exercise 4: Another look at gender
    
  • Exercise 5: What about Barbie and Ken?
  
  
• Chapter 2: Understanding personal, social and structural barriers
  
  
  • Exercise 1: Walk in my shoes
    
  • Exercise 2: Gender and parenting
    
  • Exercise 3: Gender and power
    
  • Exercise 4: Working together
  
  
• Chapter 3:Identifying the reality
  • Task 1: Finding out facts
    
  • Task 2: Doing a gender analysis
    
  • Task3: Using gender-disaggregated statistics
  
  
• Chapter 4: Identifying the problems
  • Task 1: Looking at a SWOT analysis through a gender lens
    
  • Task 2: Finding out where you're starting from
    
  • Task 3: Gender and power organisations
  
  
• Chapter 5: Taking action and implementing change
  • Action 1: Training staff and volunteers
    
  • Action 2: Examining policies
    
  • Action 3: Finding new resources and changing existing services
    
  • Action 4: Gender mainstreaming new services
    
  • Action 5: Working with service users
    
  • Action 6: Changing the culture
  
  
• Chapter 6: Monitoring gender equality
  • Action 1: monitoring gender equality
    
  • Example: OPFSIN monitoring form
  
  
• Chapter 7 Conclusions
  
  
• Appendix: Glossary of terms used
  
  
• Evaluation form.