International Labour Organization
SEAPAT
South-East Asia and the Pacific Multidisciplinary Advisory Team

What is gender analysis?

Tool: Participatory Exercise in Gender Analysis: Access to Resources

The following tool is a participatory exercise that may be used when conducting gender analysis with the participation of client communities. It helps analyse gender differences in access to resources.

Purpose: To collect information, raise awareness, and understand how access to and control of household and community resources varies according to gender.

Time: 1 hour

Audience: Primarily community members (men and women); also useful for trainers, project staff and field workers.

Materials needed:

• Three large drawings of a man, a women and a couple.
• At least 15 cards depicting different resources and possessions owned by local community members, such as: cattle, chickens, bicycle, currency, trees, vegetables, furniture, huts, plants, radio, pipe, jewellery, fruit, donkeys, horse/cart, bags of maize, bedroom furniture, water pots.

1. Place the three large drawings on the ground, in a row. Underneath these drawings, scatter the smaller cards at random. Include some blank cards.
1. Ask the participants to sort the cards by categorising them under the three large drawings in columns, depending on who owns or controls the resources.
1. Facilitate discussion among the participants about why they made the choices they did. Be particularly sensitive to including women in the discussion, or organise the exercise into two separate activities, one for men and one for women, and let them share the results of their activities.

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For further information, please contact the South-East Asia and the Pacific Multidisciplinary
Advisory Team (SEAPAT) at Tel: +63.2.815.2354 or Fax: +63.2.812.6143
E-mail: seapat@ilo.org