Round 9 Malaria Mock TRP

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Round 9 Malaria Mock TRP
April 28th 2009 Integrating gender into malaria
programmes and policies
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Draft Documents included in the Tool Kit on how
to integrate gender into malaria programmes

• Technical Guidance for Round 9 Strengthening
  Malaria Programming through Gender Mainstreaming
• Annexes
• I Malaria Matrix
• II Gender components on Community Systems
  Strengthening (CSS)
• III Gender Responsive Assessment Scale
• IV Gender Checklist does my program considers
  gender?
• V Tips on Gender Sensitive Indicators
• VI RBM Indicators, gender comments on selected
  issues
• VII CSS gender sensitive indicators

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Technical Guidance for Round 9 Gender
Mainstreaming

• Elements to be considered in the situation
  analysis relating to malaria incidence and
  management
• Barriers in access to services
• Other gender norms
• Treatment seeking behaviour
• Different patters of exposure (division of
  labour, sleeping patterns other cultural
  issues)
• Burden of care and other work
• Lack of economic security
• Lack of education for girls

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Basic concepts Understanding the difference
between sex and gender

• Sex refers to the biological and physiological
  characteristics of males and females, such as
  chromosomes, hormones reproductive organs,,, etc.
  
• Gender refers to the expected behaviour, roles,
  activities and attitudes that have been learnt or
  imposed on us according to our sex. This
  includes
• socially constructed roles, rights,
  responsibilities, possibilities, and limitations
  assigned to women and men.
• these roles are hierarchical and privilege one
  group (often men) over another leading to unequal
  power relations.
• economic, social and cultural attributes and
  opportunities

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Basic concepts Gender and other determinants
of health

• Education
• Income
• Working conditions
• Physical and social environments
• Participation
• Lifestyle and health habits

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Annex I Gender Analysis in Health

• Examination of interactions between biological
  and socio-cultural factors that lead to
  situations of relative disadvantage for one of
  the two sexes.

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Gender Analysis Interacting Factors

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WHO Gender Analysis Matrix (GAM)
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Annex II Gender and Community Systems
Strengthening

• Annex II exposes gender equality components on
  the tips on CSS specified by GF in its Fact
  Sheet CSS
• Building capacity
• Involve women in all phases of the program, and
  other vulnerable groups
• Include women in decision-making roles
• Include men women in different phases of
  awareness raising activities
• Consider address gender norms roles, as well
  as the needs resulting from those
• Build capacity of women men not overburdening
  involving them in roles traditionally assigned
  to either
• Taylor times for activities to when they are less
  disruptive of women and men's lives

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Annex II Gender and Community Systems
Strengthening

• Building partnership
• Involve women's organizations
• Ensure participation on equal basis of women and
  other vulnerable groups
• Promote accountability by establishing or
  strengthening mechanisms for effective
  communication with the community
• Sustainable financing
• For cost-sharing/ revolving fund schemes involve
  women in the management of the fund
• Avoid schemes that eventually exploit the
  community rather than empower them

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Annex III Gender Responsive Health Policies
Programmes

• How do we know if a policy or programme is gender
  responsive?
• If gender norms, roles and inequalities have been
  considered AND measures have been taken to
  actively address them.
• Goes beyond mere sensitivity, or awareness, to
  actually doing something about gender norms,
  roles and relations.

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Annex III Gender Responsive Assessment Scale
(GRAS) A tool for assessing policies and
programmes
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Annex IV Checklist

• Basic questions does my programme considers
  gender?
• Tool that can be used after designing the project
  to check if gender dimension has been considered.

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GENDER SENSITIVE INDICATORSAnnexes V, VI VII

• Some useful criteria to consider when developing
  Gender Sensitive Indicators
• Conceptual relevance
• Comparison to a norm
• Disaggregation
• Ease of access
• Scope of availability
• Reliability
• Measurability

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Get in touch!

• Merci!
• Thank you!
• Gracias
• Obrigado!!
• If you need further information please contact
• Prof. Adepeju Olukoja olukojaa_at_who.int
• Elena Villalobos Prats villalobose_at_who.int
• http//www.who.int/gender/