All Analysis Tools

This page offers a view of all analysis tools, in lists that can be filtered to your specific interests. Before browsing tools for your study, it is important first to have a clear idea of what questions one would like to answer, and then consider how each of the following tools may help deepen the team’s understanding to answer these questions.It may be easier to find tools and resources through the following pages, organized around the program cycle:

• Tools for Preliminary Foundations and Situational Analysis: Context for Development,
• Programmatic Review and Design: Tools to reflect on and design projects and programs based on analysis
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Understanding change
• Gender Integration Tools: Tools for analysis of organizational policies, practices and climate in relation to gender. In addition to learning about the situational context concerning a particular community, a set of tools have also been developed to think through an organization’s own commitment to gender equality, programmatically and operationally.

 

Guidance Pages

These pages offer a starting point for those new to gender or analysis work and include:

Concepts and Frameworks

What is Gender Analysis: An overview of concepts related to gender and gender analysis. Good Practices Framework: A guidance page that presents areas of inquiry for conducting a gender analysis. This page offers a discussion on each area of inquiry, sample questions and suggested tools. Power: At the heart of gendered relations and roles are issues of power. Gender analyses must take into account the multiple types of power, and what they mean for gender analysis. Situational Analysis Guidance: Developed in the East and Central Africa Region (ECAR), this page offers a model for undertaking situational analysis for the development of long-term programs. It discusses each step of analysis - from macro, meso to micro levels. Governance and political economy Demographic, social and economic development Social and cultural norms Disaster risk, vulnerability and capacity Conflict Gender Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Alongside tools, this page presents some of the lessons learned and challenging dilemmas in monitoring change in gender relations and women's empowerment

Analysis Planning and Design

Ethics: Key considerations that must be taken into account before and throughout analysis and programming with communities. Planning and Design: A step-by-step roadmap on how to plan an analysis exercise. Selection: What to consider in selecting who to talk to, when and where for analysis.

 

Tools Pages

These pages are organized between tools for organization review and development and tools for program quality:

Organizational Assessment Tools for organization development comprise:

Training Teams: Tools used with staff to raise awareness and foster reflection on gender relations Gender/Diversity Audit: Tools to assess how gender is considered within an organization

Program Quality Tools for program quality are organized around the programmatic cycle to include:

Situational Analysis: Tools to understand the social, political, economic and environmental context of a given place. Programmatic Review and Design: Tools for reflecting on how projects have considered gender, and for designing programs based on analysis. Gender Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Tools to understand what has changed and for whom, in relation to gender relations and programmatic approaches.