Gender-Sensitive Front-End Analysis

Gender-Sensitive Front-End Analysis

What is gender-sensitive front-end analysis?

The first three steps of the Logical Framework Approach-- known as the Front End Analysis -- provide a foundation for the design of your program.  The three steps in the front-end analysis are:

  • The Context Analysis
  • The Stakeholder Analysis, and
  • The Problem Analysis.

The front-end analysis helps program teams to:

  • understand the role and status of women within the socio-cultural context of the program
  • identify key actors and factors that facilitate or hinder the process of political empowerment
  • analyze the core problems and their root causes as they pertain to women's political empowerment
Resource

Women's Empowerment Analysis Matrix

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What tools are available for conducting a gender-sensitive front-end analysis?

Drawing from Naila Kabeer's women's empowerment framework, the MEL team has developed two tools for gender-sensitive front-end analysis:

 

  1. The Women’s Empowerment Analysis Matrix; and
  2. The gender sensitive Problem Tree