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Undertaking Gender Analysis in the PRSP Process
Module III
Module III: Undertaking Gender Analysis
in the PRSP Process
Objective:
To build the capacity of the social partners and
government officials to analyse gender inequality in
the areas of Decent Work and its relation to poverty.
1. What is the contribution of
gender analysis to the PRSP
The basic characteristics and determinants of poverty have been comprehensively
analysed in numerous studies. There has, by contrast, been much less work undertaken to
analyse the influence of gender-based discrimination and unequal gender relations on the
creation and perpetuation of poverty.
The PRSP process offers an opportunity to help redress this, by undertaking gender
analysis. This is a method available to the social partners to disentangle sources of
inequality and bias detrimental to women or men (and also to reveal sources of
co-operation and exchange between the sexes).
2. What are the steps required
to carry out gender analysis
Gender analysis has been developed to examine qualitative and quantitative factors
which account for gender imbalance, and to analyse the role of social and economic
institutions in redressing disparities.
The steps involved in carrying out gender analysis of poverty, and more broadly of access
to Decent Work, are as following:
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