tailieunhanh - A Framework To Identify Gender Indicators For Reproductive Health and Nutrition Programming

Bivariate and multivariate analyses were done to measure the effects of the interventions. Knowledge of HIV/AIDS increased in the intervention sites compared to the control sites, with greater improvement in Site B with the additional school-based intervention. The knowledge of contraceptives improved in both intervention and control sites, with the greatest improvement seen in Site A. The effect of the interventions on knowledge of the fertile period and potential health risks of early pregnancy was also clearly observed with greater improvement in Site B than Site A and no improvement in the control site. . | A Framework To Identify Gender Indicators For Reproductive Health and Nutrition Programming Prepared Under the Auspices of the Interagency Gender Working Group Subcommittee on Research and Indicators By Nancy Yinger with Anne Peterson Michal Avni Jill Gay Rebecca Firestone Karen Hardee Elaine Murphy Britt Herstad and Charlotte Johnson-Welch October 2002 Table of Contents I. II. Rationale for Including Gender-Related Indicators in Population Health and Nutrition III. Defining IV. A Framework for Incorporating Gender into PHN V. Identifying Commonly Experienced Obstacles and VI. Annex Illustrative Examples of Gender A FRAMEWORK TO IDENTIFY GENDER INDICATORS I. Introduction The importance of including gender in population health and nutrition PHN programming has gained acceptance in the last decade and was given a significant boost after the Interagency Gender Working Group IGWG 1 was established in 1997. The IGWG s Subcommittee on Research and Indicators took upon itself the task of articulating the role of gender in PHN programming and of explicitly including gender in monitoring and evaluation activities. The subcommittee members drawing on their years of experience working on PHN and gender issues in developing countries developed a framework for incorporating gender into the design and evaluation of PHN programs and provided a large set of examples see Annex as a tool for PHN program planners. This paper introduces that framework. The focus is at the level of interventions not changes in behavior or health status at the population level such as would be measured in a Demographic and Health Survey. MEASURE Evaluation2 provides resources on a wide range of population and health indicators including their gender implications MEASURE DHS 3 in both the core survey questionnaire and the gender module provides data at the population level. It is not the intention