When it comes to achieving gender equality and empowering women, it's not enough to have good intentions. We need concrete ways to assess how our programs and policies are actually making a difference in women's lives. That's where the Sarah Longwe Framework comes in handy for a gender analysis. What is the Sarah Longwe Framework? Developed by a Zambian women's rights activist in the 1990s, the Longwe Framework is a way to evaluate the extent of women's empowerment and progre

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The easiest way to distinguish between gender norms and gender roles, is to understand that gender roles flow from gender norms. In other...

Gender mainstreaming can be thought of as a strategy towards realising gender equality. As the name suggests, it involves the integration...

The diagram below is a useful critieria to assess the extent to which a programme or intervention has gender considerations. Level 5 is...

A few years ago in a workshop I was facilitating, a man grew impatient with the pace at which the women in his group were trying to reach...