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

Tool: Resources and benefits profile

Men and women do not have the same access or control over productive resources or benefits accruing from them. This gender-based inequality can have implications for the design and implementation of development interventions. In doing gender analysis, planners therrefore need to obtain information about the gender-based patterns of access to and control over resources and benefits in the given community. The resources and benefits profile is a tool to help identify these gender-based patterns.
 

Resources profile
Resources	Access by gender	Control	Benefits
e.g. land, trees, labour, time, technology, capital, extension training, indigenous knowledge, household decisionmaking	F: exclusively female F/m: predominantly female M/F: equally male/female M/f: predominantly male M: exclusively male	e.g. husband, first wife, village chief, state, forest department	e.g. food, fuel, income, skills, political power, status

[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.]

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