1. Skills Building Workshop on Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) Atelier de renforcement des capacités en Analyse de l’Impact sur la Pauvreté et la Situation Sociale (AIPS) Integrating gender into PSIAs Nairobi 7 December 2006

2. Gender Socially constructed roles ascribed to males and females. These roles are learned, change over time and vary widely within and across cultures

3. Integrating Gender into the Ten Elements of PSIA 1.Asking the right questions: How do males and females engage in this sector (access, control, participation). How are they likely to be impacted by the reform ? 2.Identifying stakeholders: always differentiate between male and female stakeholders, analyse male/female composition of stakeholders in organized groups 3. Understanding transmission channels : acknowledge different experience between men and women.

4. Integrating Gender into the Ten Elements of PSIA 4 & 5. Assessing institutions and Gathering data and information: disaggregate by sex the data collected. Use sex-specific focus groups and mixed focus groups. Be sensitive to gender-based constraints 6. Analysing impact : ask how the reform will impact men and women, Ask what are the gendered aspects of social relations among stakeholders, what are the coping mechanisms for men and women, review behavioral response of men and women. 7. Contemplating enhancement and compensation measures: propose compensation measures equitably targeted to males and females.

5. Integrating Gender into the Ten Elements of PSIA 8. Assessing risks: risk analysis methodologies should disaggregate and analyze the data by sex. 9. Monitoring and evaluation : integrate gender sensitive indicators 10. Fostering policy debate and feeding back into the policy debate: Include men and women in the research process and in the policy debate. Make gender- differentiated findings and gender-differentiated policy recommendations.

6. Integrating Gender into the PSIAs : the Case of Cotton reform in Chad Stakeholder analysis : Although women participate in the cotton production process, they are less likely to participate in the Association of villagers. Transmission channels: women have lesser access to the cotton revenue than men Gathering of data: gender specific focus groups for qualitative analysis Analysis of impact: Positive impact of reform for women if number of traders increases Mitigation measure: education to increase women’s involvement in association of producers, promotion of women associations to diversify source of revenues.