1. Ensuring Gendered planning processes in emergency and fragile states
ICPS Course 2017
Henri Myrttinen

2. Gender approach to research and planning
Integrating gender lenses into research
‘Add-on’?
Is disaggregated data enough?
Gender lens as analytical starting point
“Gender” in CSO or government programming
Women, girls, gender minorities, men and boys are affected differently by emergencies, incl. natural disaster or violent conflict and different agency in recovery processes.
Planning, and therefore research needs gender lens to frame analysis
Gender approaches are potentially extremely sensitive

3. Planning in emergency and fragile settings
Heightened importance of proper research, analysis and planning…
…but increased challenges
Research
Access to/availability of data, access to people
Reliability of data
Sensitivity of data
Mobility
Analysis
Available staff
Available infrastructure
Complexity of factors
Guesstimations

4. Planning in emergency and fragile settings (2)
Tyranny of urgency
Volatility of situation
Sensitivity/impact
Co-ordination
Multiplicity of actors
Differences of definitions, categories and agendas (e.g. “youth”, gender)
Access to various databases
Compatibility
Group think or going beyond ‘comfort zones’

5. Gender and planning Everything has gendered impacts
Gender categories not homogenous and impacts not static
Interplay of gender, age, location, marital status, disability, etc…
How well do we understand local gender dynamics? Have these changed through the emergency?
Who has access to resources, incl. information?
Who are the gatekeepers? Who did we not access?
What are possible gendered sensitivities?

6. Possible solutions Be as prepared and as nuanced as possible
Gather as much quantitative and qualitative data as possible
Mixed teams (gender, age, ethno-religious background)
Build in validation, feed-back and flexibility for lessons learned (where possible)
Have time for proper analysis (where possible)
Use mixed methods, including creative and counter-intuitive approaches
Re-visit assumptions and data: what is missing, what has changed, what does this mean for the planning process and the plans?
Use models – but adapt!

7. Example One: Gender-responsive budgeting
“Gender budgeting focuses on a gender-based analysis and an equality-oriented evaluation of the distribution of resources (money, time as well as paid and/or unpaid work). Gender budgeting seeks to achieve a gender-equal distribution of resources” (Blickhäuser and von Bargen, 2007)
Six possible approaches:
1. Gender-equality-oriented evaluation of political / economic strategies (by gender equality players)
2. Gender-sensitive check and analysis of individual financial priorities
3. Gender-oriented breakdown of the use of public funds (expenses)
4. Gender-oriented breakdown of public revenues
5. Gender-oriented breakdown of the impact of public funds on time management
6. Gender-equality focus in medium-term financial planning

8. Example Two: Gender markers