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GENDER ONLINE MODULE
UNIT 1: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
What is Gender Analysis?


Tool: Constraints and Opportunities Profile

This tool helps construct a profile about the constraints and opportunities in the environment that can potentially influence gender-related development efforts in the area.

The following are two examples of constraints and opportunity profiles for gender analysis: You can use any or both of them to construct your own profile, as relevant to your work.

Example 1:
CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PROFILE
DESCRIPTION
OPPORTUNITY
CONDITIONS
ECONOMIC/DEMOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS    
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS    
NORMS AND VALUES    
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT    
LEGISLATION    
TRAINING AND EDUCATION    
OTHER    


Example 2:
CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES PROFILE
DESCRIPTION
OPPORTUNITY
CONDITIONS
ECONOMIC/DEMOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS    
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS    
NORMS AND VALUES    
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT    
LEGISLATION    
TRAINING AND EDUCATION    
OTHER    


[Adapted from Gender Issues in the World of Work: Gender Training Package, ILO, Geneva, 1995 and Vicki L. Wilde and Arja Vainio-Mattila, International Training Package: Gender Analysis and Forestry, FAO, Rome, 1995.]


Updated by MR. Approved by WKB. Last update: 8 February 2005.