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Gender Checklist: health

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Key questions and action points in the project cycle

This checklist follows a gender analysis framework and is flexible and adaptable. The premise of gender analysis is that women and men have different roles and status in the household, the community, and society, and therefore have different needs and priorities. Gender-differentiated data are collected to identify those different needs and priorities, as well as different knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the prospective project area. The information from the gender analysis will inform the design of the project and contribute to its efficiency and effectiveness. In examining the feasibility of a project and designing the project, two questions arising from the gender analysis should be asked:

• What are the practical implications of the differ-ent roles and status of women and men in the project area for the feasibility of the project and for the effective design of the project? How will the project recognize and accommodate the dif-ferent roles of women and men?
• What is the strategic potential of the project for improving the status of women? How will the project affect women and men? How can the project contribute to long-term strategies for the empowerment of women?

The checklist should be used in the initial social as-sessment (summarized in Box 1) during the fact-find-ing phase of project preparatory technical assistance (PPTA) and in the social analysis (summarized in Box 2) during the PPTA.

The ultimate purpose of the gender analysis is to as-sist in the design of development projects that will maximize the participation of both female and male beneficiaries and the benefits to them. The checklist is not all-inclusive. It is meant to be used in addition to general data necessary for project design.

Gender analysis will be carried out in two steps. Back-ground data on gender-differentiated characteristics of the client population will be collected and analyzed in relation to the socioeconomic and cultural charac-teristics of the project area. The analysis will be used in planning projects and in all stages of the project cycle.

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