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Gender Training in Bangladesh

Determining the Role of Gender in Economic Trade

Rural women are responsible for half of the world's food production and produce between 60 and 80 percent of the food in most developing countries.

The GATE/Bangladesh training materials and handbook were designed for the USAID/Bangladesh Economic Growth, Food and Environment (EGFE) team.

The materials focus on gender and trade issues, and are presented in a clear and uncomplicated manner. The materials take much of the mystery out of how to determine if and where gender plays a role in trade activities. They provide excellent exercises and guides to identify where gender issues need to be addressed in order to enhance the development outcome of an activity.

Integrating Gender Considerations into Mission Activities

The materials provide an in-depth exploration of the Mission's Strategic Objectives (SOs), identifying where and why it is important to integrate gender considerations.

For example, one of the Mission's SOs is to increase private sector growth. Export-led growth can create new job options in different commodities.

However, from a gender perspective, women face more limited access to domestic and global markets due to formal and informal constraints. Designing gender sensitive activities requires identifying what jobs men and women hold in commodity value chains and understanding structural as well as socio-cultural factors which may inhibit women's ability to move into higher value-added segments of the chain.

Gender Analytical Framework for Trade and Economic Growth Activities

The training walks participants through the Gender Analytical Framework for Trade and Economic Growth Activities (GAF-TEGA). GAF-TEGA is used on a sectoral basis to develop gender questions and gender-sensitive indicators regarding trade related issues. The materials provide examples of how to use GAF-TEGA for analyses of agricultural, manufacturing, and the services sector.

Young women in a shoe factory in Bangladesh. Credit: EDC

For example, a few gender questions to ask when exploring the services sector include:

• How many men and women have gained or lost jobs in the sector?
• Is there marked occupational segregation by sex?
• Have real wages or relative wages changed by sex?

Corresponding gender indicators include:

• changes in labor composition of the sector, disaggregated by sex and segment of the sector;
• data on labor force, disaggregated by occupation and sex; and
• data on real and relative wages, disaggregated by sex and sector.

The materials also address how to foster cross-sectoral work between economic growth, democracy and governance, health and other sectors.

Training Materials

Gender Training Handbook : integrating gender into trade and economic growth programs and analysis09/01/2005 (525KB)

Gender Training Materials: integrating gender into trade and economic growth programs and analysis11/01/2005 (809KB)

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