Services: Gender & Social Analysis
Gender and socially-balanced outcomes are central to equitable development.
Many development programs fail because they do not take into account the complex social relationships-based on gender bias, power and status-within families, households, organizations and communities. Gender and social analysis looks at relationships and distribution and control of power and resources within and between these groups. This learning is used to design and deliver higher quality programs and empower disenfranchised groups.
SI provides gender and social analysis consulting and capacity building services to organizations working in all sectors so that women and marginalized groups have a stronger voice and become a central focus of positive change. We use a holistic approach to create more favorable incentives and structures for equitable development within organizations and we assist groups to design and implement gender-balanced and socially sensitive programs with lasting value.
Range of Services
- Gender and Social Analysis Consulting and Training-support to agencies and project teams to design, implement, monitor and evaluate more gender-and-socially equitable programs, strategies and policies with lasting social value.
- Organizational Development Consulting—-assessing and strengthening internal organizational culture, structures, procedures and incentives to promote gender and social equity.
- PROJECT details
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USAID/OTI: Lebanon Political Study, 2007
OTI was established in 1994 to respond to countries experiencing a significant and sometimes rapid political transition frequently accompanied by a social and/or economic crisis. OTI commissioned SI to conduct a study of the current political dynamics in Lebanon to determine whether conditions were such that a two to three year OTI program could potentially contribute in a significant way to the achievement of peace and stability and/or longer term positive political development in that country. The primary focus for the study was to determine if there is a window of opportunity for OTI programming and OTI's ability to affect change under given circumstances. The team explored issues such as key political, social and economic factors that may foster greater stability and improved governance in Lebanon and recommended that programs be designed that preserve and expand the common national space. The final deliverable for the project was an internal report and briefing that provided options on program directions that OTI is using to inform the design of a new program.
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Support to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): 2007-2011
SI is a partner of Nathan Associates on a $150 million USAID project to support ASEAN-US Enhanced Partnership activities over the next five to eight years. The project-the ASEAN Development Vision to Advance National Cooperation and Economic Integration (ADVANCE)-will allow USAID Missions in the region to support the ASEAN Secretariat and work with and through ASEAN member country governments, civil society, and the private sector to achieve Partnership goals in economic development and trade, health, ICT, transport, disaster management, and the environment. One of the most successful regional organizations in the developing world, ASEAN intends to further integrate its member countries into an ASEAN community by 2015. SI supports ASEAN/ADVANCE to integrate gender and results-based management into a wide array of project activities.
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Global Integrated Water and Coastal Resources Management: USAID, 2004-09
SI is part of a $2 billion consortium led by DAI to provide comprehensive services to support USAID's global program entitled Integrated Water and Coastal Resources Management. The objective of the contract is to increase conservation and sustainable use of freshwater and coastal resources. SI's ensures that all of the consortium's water projects have an integrated gender approach at each stage of the project cycle-design, implementation, and performance monitoring and evaluation-so that women, as primary water users, benefit equally from the program. Learn how to access SI services as part of the USAID Water contract.
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Gender and Social Analysis in Project Design and Performance Management, World Bank, 2000-present
In support of the World Bank's Results-based Management (RBM) agenda, SI provides technical assistance to project design teams to develop clear and measurable benefits for women. SI works with teams at the project preparation stage to define project objectives explicitly addressing women's needs. SI also works with teams to identify outcome measures and to design performance monitoring systems to track the project's results for women. In all, SI has provided technical assistance to over 200 design teams, strengthening over 230 projects and programs in all sectors in over 140 countries.
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Mainstreaming Empowerment in Poverty Reduction Programs: World Bank, 2005
Empowerment-enhancing the capacity of women and poor people to make choices and transform those choices into desired outcomes to improve their lives-is an increasingly important concept for the World Bank. Drawing on cutting-edge research by the Bank's Poverty Reduction Group, SI developed a practical empowerment learning module to enable design teams to create programs that empower women and disadvantaged groups, and to monitor achievement of empowerment objectives. SI's case-based learning module provides a step-by-step approach to accomplish these program design and management steps.
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Indonesia-Building Gender into Environmental Programs: USAID Environmental Services Project, 2004-09
In Indonesia, SI works with DAI on the Environmental Services Program to take a gender-balanced approach to environmental management. The project promotes policy changes and forges institutional and community linkages to improve water supply in key municipalities. The technical breadth of the project is vast, ranging from improving the ability of water utilities to access capital for strengthening their distribution networks, to linking rural farmers with markets for produce grown using sound watershed management practices. By fostering gender analysis at each stage of the program, SI ensures that women-as primary water users-benefit equally from the project, and that adverse impacts on women be avoided.
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Building Gender into Global Legislative Strengthening Programs: USAID Legislative Strengthening Contract, 2004-09
USAID's Legislative Strengthening contract assists legislative bodies to become stronger, more effective democratic institutions. As part of the DAI consortium, SI works to build a gender-sensitive approach into all phases of country-level projects so that women are involved in, and benefit from, activities to increase legislative transparency, accountability, pluralism, public participation, policy reform, law-making, and legislative oversight. SI also supports DAI on the design and implementation of performance monitoring systems for legislative strengthening activities so that project outcomes, and especially effects on women, can be measured. Learn how to access SI services as part of the Legislative Strengthening contract.
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Increasing Diversity in the World Bank: World Bank, 2002-03
SI worked with the Bank's Diversity Unit (DU) and the Vice President Units (VPUs) to develop a three-year strategy and action plan to expand the role of women and developing country nationals-especially those from sub-Saharan Africa-in the Bank's management cadres. The plan identified milestones and expected outcomes and key performance metrics for diversity at the institutional and operational levels. To develop the plan SI led participatory planning sessions and worked with DU staff to develop and present the plan to the Board. The plan was approved by the Board and implementation is progressing smoothly towards the intended outcomes.
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Gender and Social Analysis
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A key to more efficient, effective and sustainable programs (Impact Note No. 11)