Guide on Gender Integration in DRG Programming
Source: USAID | Year: 2016
Since 2011, USAID has taken dramatic steps to advance gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment more effectively throughout its work. This effort builds upon an architecture of U.S. government policies and strategies released between 2011 and 2015, including the USAID Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy (Gender Policy), the United States Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence Globally, and the LGBT Vision for Action.
Incorporating gender analysis into USAID’s work in Washington and in the field allows the Agency to identify opportunities to advance gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment and helps to ensure that all of our work takes gender-based differences, constraints, and opportunities into account. Gender analysis is required for strategies and projects, but the scope of analysis will differ depending on the level of focus.
Effective gender integration is particularly critical to our work in the field of democracy, human rights, and governance. If USAID’s work does not ensure that women, men, transgender, and gender non-conforming people have equal opportunities to participate in and benefit from its programs and in the political life of their societies, then we are failing in our efforts both to promote participatory, representative and inclusive political processes and government institutions and to foster greater accountability of institutions and leaders to citizens and to the law. Similarly, promoting and protecting universally recognized human rights includes, by definition, protecting and advancing the equal rights4 of men, women, boys, girls, and transgender people and responding to gender-based human rights violations.
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