See Both Sides

Karen Richardson

doi:10.3362/9780855988487

See Both Sides

A Pratical Guide to Gender Analysis for Quality Service Delivery

Published by Oxfam GBs 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.

Published: 2004
Pages: 80

eBook: 9780855988487

Paperback: 9780855985370


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.