Handbook on Gender and Empowerment Assessment

This handbook presents a method for gender empowerment assessment (GEA) which records how development projects and programmes affect women and men. It is not a manual for conducting full scale gender and empowerment analysis of projects, but is a guide that will assist the user to identify the need for such analysis. It records the impact on women in relation to empowerment factors; the impact on men in relation to empowerment factors; and the need to follow up the assessment if basic data is missing.

NORAD’s operational guidelines require assessment of gender consequences to be performed for all NORAD-funded development projects and programmes. NORAD's role is to assess project proposals presented by the partner, not participate in project formulation or planning - though NORAD may, upon request, provide financial support to the partner country at this early stage to ensure adequate pre-studies and plans. The handbook provides guidelines for NORAD's requests for gender analysis at the various stages of the project cycle: project appraisal, appropriations, progress reporting, project reviews and evaluations.

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