Gender Mainsteaming in National Cash Transfer Project

                GENDER MAINSTEAMING IN NATIONAL CASH TRANSFER PROJECT

 Objectives

• To create awareness on gender issues at all NCTP implementation levels
• To identify factors that perpetuate social inequality in development.
• To identify gender issues to be addressed in reducing poverty
• To build capacity of staff on gender mainstreaming in NCTP

WHY GENDER?

• Differential treatment to individuals based on their gender systematic and structural discrimination against either women or men in the distribution of income, access of resources, control over resources, and opportunities for participation.
• Women suffer multiple disadvantages poor, socio cultural and policy biases
• Potential pathway for economic growth and food security.

GENDER AND POVERTY

• Resource ownership and access ; inequality in sharing and allocation of resources

• Gender differences in earnings based on divisions of labour within and beyond the homes. Time and labour expended are hardly compensated for.
• Gender difference in decision making, who takes the decision in the home and beyond?
• Gender violence
• The economic issues include the fact that women do not have the same productive resources as men and most work of women goes unrecognized.

             WHAT IS GENDER?

• A social construction of what it means to be male or female, referring to the roles opportunities constraints and privileges associated with one’s sex
• Gender constructions are culture specific and different in terms of roles given to men and women. It may be dynamic over time to reflect changing economic, political and demographic circumstances.

                WHAT ARE GENDER ISSUES?

• Situation where women and men receive unequal treatment mainly because of the socially constructed underlying assumptions about both sexes
• Concern with roles and task of men and women
• Relation to one another in a given society
• Unequal relations of power between rich and poor, women and men that prevent equitable development and women’s full participation.

GENDER TERMINOLOGIES

Gender equality- is that everyone should receive equal treatment and not be discriminated against based on their gender or sex.

Gender equity- is the process of allocating resources programmes and decision making fairly to both males and females without any discrimination on the basis of sex and addressing any imbalances in the benefits available to males and females

Gender blindness- Refers to failure to recognize that the roles and responsibilities of men/boys and women/girls are assigned to them in specific social, cultural economic, and political contexts and backgrounds.

• Gender mainstreaming
• Gender inclusion      

Gender mainstreaming- involves the integration of a gender perspective into the preparation, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies, regulatory measures and spending programs with a view to promoting equality between women and men, and combating discrimination.

Gender inclusion – Is to give attention to or involve gender (especially the excluded ones).