Gender Analysis and Gender-Responsive Programme Design Course
Conduct practical gender analysis and translate findings into programme objectives, targeting, activities, risk controls, partnerships and measurable outcomes.
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A Gender Analysis That Does Not Change the Programme Is Just a Report.
Many organisations commission gender analyses that produce useful observations but weak design consequences. The document explains disparities, yet the programme still targets the same groups, uses the same delivery channels, assumes the same constraints and measures the same outputs.
The value of analysis is in the decisions it changes. Teams need a disciplined way to move from evidence about roles, resources, norms, institutions and power into a programme logic that responds to those findings.
This course focuses on that translation: from analysis to concrete, testable programme design.
Organisations get weak results when they:
- collecting background statistics without analysing mechanisms
- describing norms without identifying which are programme-relevant
- failing to distinguish access from control or participation from influence
- using broad categories that hide different barriers
- producing recommendations too vague to cost or assign
- designing indicators before the programme logic is clear
- copying a gender framework without adapting it to the sector or population
How This Applies Across the Markets MATSH Serves
GCC
Apply the framework to public-sector transformation, workforce participation, enterprise growth and institutional programmes, with local policy and regulatory requirements verified for each jurisdiction.
Africa
Adapt design to diverse labour markets, enterprise ecosystems, public-service capacity and access constraints rather than assuming one regional operating environment.
Asia
Use the same decision framework across large-scale skills, enterprise, public-service and digital-delivery systems while localising implementation.
Global / Multi-country
Build common standards and governance while preserving local diagnostics, programme pathways and evidence requirements.
Who Should Attend
Programme design and proposal teams
Professionals responsible for programme, policy, institutional or organisational delivery.
Gender and inclusion specialists
Professionals responsible for programme, policy, institutional or organisational delivery.
NGOs and development organisations
Professionals responsible for programme, policy, institutional or organisational delivery.
Government policy and programme units
Professionals responsible for programme, policy, institutional or organisational delivery.
Donor technical teams
Professionals responsible for programme, policy, institutional or organisational delivery.
Research, MEL and evaluation professionals
Professionals responsible for programme, policy, institutional or organisational delivery.
What You Will Leave With
Implementation Framework
Programme Curriculum
Why this module matters: Define the decisions the analysis must inform before collecting data.
- Clarify programme scope and target population
- Set analysis questions
- Map existing evidence
- Identify information gaps
- Choose qualitative and quantitative methods
- Plan safe participation and confidentiality
Applied workshop: build a decision-led analysis plan.
Why this module matters: Move beyond descriptive differences to understand mechanisms.
- Analyse productive and care roles
- Map access to and control over assets
- Examine decision-making power
- Assess formal and informal institutions
- Explore norms and incentives
- Identify differences within gender groups
Applied workshop: construct a gender constraint-and-opportunity matrix.
Why this module matters: Use findings to change objectives, pathways and assumptions.
- Rewrite problem statements
- Adapt theory of change
- Define differentiated pathways
- Change targeting and outreach
- Design enabling and institutional components
- Document why each design choice follows from evidence
Applied workshop: rebuild a programme theory of change.
Why this module matters: Make the analysis visible in the way services are delivered.
- Select appropriate delivery channels
- Address care, mobility and safety
- Plan partner roles
- Integrate referral and safeguarding mechanisms
- Allocate resources to responsive actions
- Test for unintended harms
Applied workshop: review a delivery plan against the gender analysis.
Why this module matters: Measure whether the responsive design changes outcomes and where assumptions fail.
- Choose meaningful indicators
- Use disaggregation intelligently
- Measure access, control and influence where relevant
- Track differential drop-out and benefit
- Use qualitative evidence to explain mechanisms
- Create adaptation triggers
Capstone: present a complete analysis-to-design package.
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Turn Policy Intent Into an Operating Model Your Team Can Actually Deliver.
Use the course to strengthen a live programme, policy, portfolio or institutional system.
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We run this course as a private programme for organisations. Bespoke dates, tailored content, group pricing.
Every course starts with a needs assessment and includes structured follow-up at three points after it ends.