This technical guide explains the importance of assets—both tangible such as land, labor, and animals and intangible such as education, financial capital, and social networks—for development, and the wide gap that exists between men and women in the use, control, and ownership of these assets.
With practical lessons and recommendations drawing on GAAP’s evaluations of eight agricultural development projects, the guide shows how to design, implement, and monitor projects to address this gender asset gap, clarifying how each step of the project—from design to evaluation—can attend to gender differences in a wide range of social, cultural, and economic contexts. It also identifies both qualitative and quantitative tools to use in collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data on assets.
The guide was developed over the course of 2013 and 2014 and benefitted from extensive input from participants at three workshops in Nairobi (December 2013), New Delhi (March 2014), and Washington, DC (May 2014).
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