Gender and targeting: key conceptsMaria HartlSenior Technical Specialist Gender and Social EquityPolicy and Technical Advisory DivisionProgramme Management DepartmentInternational Fund for Agricultural Development

Basic concepts

•Gender Equality

•Gender Equity

•Empowerment

•Targeting

Refreshing definitions and concepts

•Gender Equality: women and men have equal rights, freedoms, conditions and opportunities to access and control socially valued goods and resources and enjoy the same status within a society.

•Gender Equity: fairness of treatment for women and men according to their respective needs.

•Empowerment: the process of increasing the opportunity of people to take control over their own lives.

Targeting: project activities and beneficiary outreach

Poorer

Transitory poor

Economically active poor

Well-off

Participatory planning

Infrastructure development

Land managementCommunity development

Broad outreach

Poorest

Agricultural productivityFood and nutrition security

Agri-business and enterprise developmentSmall business development

Targeted outreach

Household mentoring

Safety netsWork programmes

Kl

Targeting checklist

Gender checklist

Design featuresTarget group Poverty and livelihoods from gender

perspective

Economic empowerment

Access and control over resourcesSkills and knowledge

Decision making and representation

Membership and leadership trainingQuotas

Equitable workload and sharing in benefits

Labour saving technologiesHousehold methodologies

Targeting and gender in project cycle

Thank you! m.hartl@ifad.org