Tools: Control Over One’s Body – CARE Gender Toolkit

Tools: Control Over One's Body

Name	Description
Gender Equality Attitudes-Values Clarification	Gauges men’s (or women’s) attitudes about gender equality (agency). It can also then be used to understand the broader values and norms that drive attitudes (structures), as well as give a sense of the dynamics surrounding gender relations.
Body Mapping	Discusses what areas are associated with pleasure, pain, power and shame (agency). Probes into the relationships and structures that reinforce men's and women’s associations around pleasure or power related to their bodies.
Defining Empowerment in Desired Changes	A set of tools to explore which decisions are within the power of women girls and which are not. Variations focus on decisions related to sexual relations.
Developing Empowerment Scales	Explores the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that constrain or reinforce a particular issue or condition. These factors can span across agency, structures and relations.
Forms of Violence	Seeks to understand the forms of violence within a given context (structures, relations), affecting young men and women.
Norms and Value Evolution	Questions how norms/values (structures) within a community have changed: what men and women / boys and girls have achieved (agency), how relationships and support systems have shifted, and their affect on a group's choices and opportunities (structures).
Caste Analysis	Explores belief systems, hierarchies and roles (structures) that have prescribed what people of different castes can do (agency). Looks at how people of different castes may relate with one another and each other (relations).