Gender Integration Tools – CARE Gender Toolkit

Gender Integration Tools

Name	Source	Description
GAP Analysis	CARE - Gender, Equity and Diversity	Helps offices evaluate their strengths, weaknesses, needed support and ways forward in strengthening their ability to manage and advance gender equity and diversity internally to become effective advocates for social justice and equity.
Portfolio Review	CARE-SAA Toolkit	Works with a small team to creatively about how to integrate gender and sexuality into current projects and programs.
Gender Continuum	CARE-SAA Toolkit	Helps staff analyze their own approaches toward women's empowerment, across agency, structures and relations.
Program Principles Analysis	CARE-SAA Toolkit	Helps staff understand the relevance of CARE International’s Programming Principles to their work and measure how our work addresses deeper social and cultural issues.
Design Analysis	CARE-SII (M Picard)	Explores the extent to which CARE projects incorporate rights-based approaches – with a focus on women’s empowerment - in design.
Promising Practices Inquiry	CARE-SII (V Vaughn)	Examines strategies and interventions, their relationship with broader trends as well as changes around women’s empowerment (agency, structures and relations) to capture key lessons and promising approaches to supporting women’s empowerment.
Power Mapping	CARE - Situational /UCP Analyses (B Bode)	Looks at where power sits within a given area, based on structural factors, including natural resources, political resources (prominent leaders) as well as development resources.
Force-Field Analysis	CARE and ICRW - ISOFI Toolkit	Explores the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that constrain or reinforce a particular issue or condition. These factors can span across agency, structures and relations.
Gender Equality Attitudes-Values Clarification	Promundo (G Barker, GEM Scale)	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.
Most Significant Change	R Davies (MandE.co.uk); CARE - SAA Toolkit	Facilitates dialogues with men and women about what changes happened over a period of time to evaluate why they happened (thinking across agency, structures and relations, as well as analyze future implications for intervention strategies.
Focus Group Discussions		Group discussions can touch on a spectrum of issues related to agency, relations and structures. Note: depending on the topic of discussion, teams must consider risks and the importance of privacy and confidentiality.
Surveys and Interviews	M&E Tool Box and Training (Barton; Caldwell, Sprechmann and Rugh)	To discover quantitative information about people's opinions, beliefs and practices, and about service need or coverage of project access, so that the information may be analyzed statistically.
Basic Services Questionnaire	CARE Gulf of Guinea	To help offices evaluate their strengths, weaknesses, needed support and ways forward in strengthening their ability to manage and advance gender equity and diversity internally to become effective advocates for social justice and equity.