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Mainstreaming Gender into Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programs
Module 2: Theoretical Concepts of Gender
Lesson 7: Gender Concepts (2): Gender Roles and Relationships and Gender Needs
Duration of the Session
One hour 30 minutes
Objectives of the Session
7.2 Gender Needs
1 To allow participants to express their views on gender needs.
2 To identify the two types of gender needs.
3 To relate these needs to women’s and men’s lives.
4 To allow participants to analyse and relate the issue to their own lives
and work.
Methodology
• Visual presentation
• Group work
• Questions and answers
• Participatory discussion
• Video show
Media/Materials
• Flipchart, whiteboard and markers
• Photographs of men and women at work in both traditional and nontraditional
roles
• Handout 7.3: Definitions of Gender Needs
• Handout 7.4: Practical and Strategic Gender Needs
Preparation
1 Read the handout and procedures carefully before the session so that
you are thoroughly familiar with the subject matter and proposed
methodology.
2 Prepare a set of photographs that show men and women in different
roles – two traditional roles and two non-traditional roles for both men
and women.
3 Prepare sufficient photocopies of the two handouts to distribute to each
participant.
4 Write the objectives of the session on a flipchart.
Procedures
1 Briefly share the objectives of the session on the flipchart with
participants.
2 Recap briefly the previous session on gender roles. Draw out the
different gender roles that women and men have to perform. Discuss
the overburdening of women and their triple roles.
3 Divide the participants into four groups.
4 Distribute a selection of photographs of four types of work performed
by women and men to each of the four groups. In the photographs
A Training Manual for Water Professionals developed collaboratively by PROTOS and SNV, 01/02/2007
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