Gender Mainstreaming Analysis and Planning Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Government policy officers, Programme managers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 7 Nov 2026 Course code SD-GPS-038

Before you join: Participants should have experience contributing to public policies, development programmes, humanitarian responses, projects, budgets, monitoring systems or service delivery.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Public programmes can unintentionally reproduce unequal access to services, assets, employment, safety and decision-making when gender is treated as a reporting requirement rather than a planning discipline. Government agencies, development partners and humanitarian organisations need staff who can identify the different constraints faced by women, men, girls and boys; use credible evidence; and convert findings into funded actions, measurable results and accountable management decisions.

This course teaches a structured process for gender mainstreaming from initial analysis through programme design, budgeting, monitoring and institutional follow-through. Participants use the Harvard Analytical Framework, Moser Framework, stakeholder and power analysis, problem trees, theories of change, gender-responsive budgeting and gender-sensitive indicators. They learn to distinguish practical needs from strategic interests, analyse unpaid care work and control of resources, assess exclusion risks, formulate gender-responsive objectives and establish data collection and accountability arrangements.

Instruction combines focused briefings with public-sector, development and humanitarian cases. Participants work with planning documents, service-delivery scenarios, budgets, results frameworks and monitoring data, then receive tutor feedback on their analytical choices. The course concludes with an individual application plan linked to a live policy, programme or project priority. Participants leave with reusable templates for gender analysis, results planning, budgeting, monitoring, risk management and internal accountability.

The course is suited to professionals who already contribute to policy, programme, project, budget, monitoring or service-delivery decisions and need a practical method for making those decisions more equitable and evidence-based.

What you will be able to do

  • Conduct a gender analysis using the Harvard Analytical Framework and Moser Framework
  • Interpret sex-disaggregated and intersectional data for policy and programme decisions
  • Develop a gender problem tree and theory of change from analysed evidence
  • Design gender-responsive objectives, activities, targeting criteria and service pathways
  • Prepare a gender-responsive budget with costed inclusion and safeguarding measures
  • Construct a gender-sensitive monitoring framework with indicators, baselines and data sources
  • Assess gender-related safeguarding, exclusion and backlash risks using a risk register
  • Produce a gender mainstreaming action plan with responsibilities, milestones and reporting arrangements

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Produce evidence-based gender analysis rather than relying on generic inclusion statements
  • Write stronger programme objectives, indicators and budget justifications for approval processes
  • Identify exclusion, safety and backlash risks before activities reach affected communities
  • Contribute confidently to gender reviews with donors, ministries and implementing partners
  • Build a practical workplace action plan for improving current programmes or policies

For your organisation

  • Improves targeting of public services and assistance for groups facing unequal barriers
  • Produces clearer evidence trails from gender findings to budgets, activities and results
  • Reduces reputational and safeguarding risks caused by poorly designed participation processes
  • Strengthens donor reporting, programme reviews and internal accountability for equality commitments
  • Supports more defensible resource allocation through gender-responsive budget analysis

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can explain gender mainstreaming as a rights-based planning and accountability process.

  • Gender equality, equity and inclusion distinguished within public programme design
  • CEDAW obligations translated into policy, service delivery and accountability questions
  • SDG 5 targets linked to national planning and reporting
  • Rights-holders, duty-bearers and institutional accountabilities mapped using HRBA
  • Intersectionality identifies compounded barriers affecting women, men, girls and boys
  • Gender norms examined as drivers of access, voice and control

Participants can assess whether available evidence is sufficient for gender-responsive decisions.

  • Sex-disaggregated data assessed for coverage, quality, comparability and ethical limitations
  • Intersectional disaggregation specified by age, disability, location, income and status
  • Gender statistics indicators selected from administrative records, surveys and censuses
  • Data-collection questions tested for respondent safety, consent and confidentiality
  • Missing data and sampling bias documented in an evidence assessment
  • Participatory methods capture lived experience beyond quantitative indicator findings

Participants can apply recognised frameworks to identify gendered roles, resources and constraints.

  • Harvard Analytical Framework maps activities, access, control and influencing factors
  • Moser Framework separates practical needs from strategic gender interests
  • Daily activity profiles reveal time poverty and unpaid care work
  • Access-and-control matrices expose resource gaps and decision-making constraints
  • Mobility maps identify safety, distance and transport barriers
  • Seasonal calendars trace gendered workloads, risks and livelihood patterns

Participants can plan safe and meaningful participation for groups affected by public action.

  • Stakeholder mapping distinguishes rights-holders, gatekeepers, allies and duty-bearers
  • Power analysis examines visible, hidden and internalised decision-making power
  • Safe consultation protocols reduce risks of backlash and disclosure
  • Separate and mixed-group consultations selected according to safeguarding risks
  • Community feedback mechanisms tested for accessibility, confidentiality and response
  • Participation findings validated without exposing individuals to further harm

Participants can define gender problems, causal pathways and priority areas for intervention.

  • Gender problem trees link structural causes to unequal service outcomes
  • Barrier analysis distinguishes legal, institutional, economic, social and safety constraints
  • Theory of change articulates pathways from interventions to equality results
  • Assumptions and risks tested against power relations and local norms
  • Problem statements written with evidence, affected groups and causal factors
  • Priority issues ranked using severity, feasibility, reach and rights criteria

Participants can design interventions that address identified gender barriers and power relations.

  • Gender-responsive objectives specify change for defined groups and institutions
  • Results frameworks connect inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impact
  • Gender integration continuum distinguishes exploitative, accommodating, sensitive and transformative approaches
  • Service delivery pathways redesigned around access, safety, affordability and voice
  • Targeting criteria prevent exclusion through documentation, mobility or care barriers
  • Policy options assessed for distributional effects and unintended consequences

Participants can connect gender priorities to realistic costs, budgets and expenditure decisions.

  • Gender-responsive budgeting traces resource allocations, beneficiaries and expected equality results
  • Costed activities include accessibility, safeguarding, outreach and care-support measures
  • Budget incidence analysis identifies who benefits from public expenditure
  • Medium-term expenditure frameworks align gender priorities with fiscal ceilings
  • Procurement specifications include gender equality requirements and supplier reporting
  • Budget narratives justify allocations using analysis, targets and cost assumptions

Participants can build monitoring and evaluation arrangements that measure meaningful gender results.

  • Gender-sensitive indicators define change, unit, disaggregation, source and frequency
  • SMART indicator tests improve measurability, relevance and decision usefulness
  • Baseline plans establish reference values, methods, responsibilities and timelines
  • Outcome harvesting captures unintended change in complex programmes
  • Monitoring matrices assign data sources, collection methods and quality checks
  • Evaluation questions assess relevance, effectiveness, impact and sustainability

Participants can identify and manage gender-related risks arising from programme design and delivery.

  • Do-no-harm analysis identifies risks created by programme participation
  • Gender-based violence referral pathways mapped without collecting unnecessary survivor data
  • Safeguarding protocols define reporting, confidentiality, escalation and survivor-centred responses
  • Risk registers assign mitigations, owners, triggers and review dates
  • Conflict sensitivity examines differential impacts, tensions and exclusion risks
  • Data protection measures minimise identifiable information and restrict access

Participants can establish practical arrangements for sustaining gender mainstreaming within their remit.

  • Gender action plans assign commitments, owners, milestones, resources and indicators
  • Roles and responsibilities clarified through RACI matrices and accountability lines
  • Staff capability gaps assessed through competency-based gender mainstreaming plans
  • Policy review checklists test mandates, procedures, budgets and reporting
  • Management reporting packages present findings, decisions, risks and follow-up actions
  • Individual application plans schedule workplace analyses, consultations and approvals

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Gender analysis template using Harvard and Moser Frameworks
  2. Intersectional data and evidence assessment checklist
  3. Gender problem tree and theory of change model
  4. Gender-responsive budget review template
  5. Gender-sensitive monitoring matrix
  6. Gender mainstreaming action plan template

Who should attend

  • Government policy officers — need to embed equality considerations in policy proposals and implementation plans
  • Programme managers — need to convert gender findings into activities, budgets and results frameworks
  • Development project officers — need defensible analysis for donor-funded programme design and reporting
  • Humanitarian coordinators — need safer, more inclusive assistance planning and accountability mechanisms
  • Monitoring and evaluation specialists — need gender-sensitive indicators, data plans and evaluation questions
  • Public finance and budget officers — need to assess who benefits from public expenditure allocations

Skills and tools covered

Gender analysisIntersectional data analysisGender-responsive planningGender budgetingGender-sensitive monitoringSafeguarding risk management

Tools and standards

Harvard Analytical Framework, Moser Framework, OECD DAC Evaluation Criteria, IASC Gender with Age Marker

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short tutor briefings followed by structured case work drawn from public services, development programmes and humanitarian operations. Participants analyse sample data, stakeholder maps, programme designs, budgets and results frameworks in small groups. Facilitated simulations address consultation choices, budget trade-offs and risk escalation. Trainer feedback focuses on the quality of evidence, causal reasoning, targeting and accountability arrangements. Each participant develops an application plan for a policy, programme or project relevant to their own work.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have experience contributing to public policies, development programmes, humanitarian responses, projects, budgets, monitoring systems or service delivery. They should be comfortable reading planning documents, basic budgets and simple tables of administrative or survey data. Familiarity with gender equality concepts is helpful but not assumed; the course establishes a shared working vocabulary before applying analytical tools. Statistical software, advanced econometrics, specialist safeguarding qualifications and prior experience conducting gender research are not required. Participants should bring a current or recent policy, programme or project example for application planning.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should have experience with policies, programmes, projects, budgets, monitoring or public service delivery. No specialist gender qualification, statistical software or advanced research experience is required.

Bring a current or recent policy, programme, project, budget or results framework that can be used for application planning. Sensitive documents are not required; anonymised examples or non-confidential summaries are suitable.

It is designed for government, development and humanitarian professionals who influence planning, implementation, financing, monitoring or accountability. It is particularly useful for programme managers, policy officers, M&E staff and budget officers.

This course focuses on analytical and planning methods rather than awareness alone. Participants work from evidence through programme design, budgeting, indicators, safeguarding risks and management accountability.

Participants can use the templates to review an existing policy or programme, identify evidence gaps and revise planned activities or indicators. The individual application plan sets out immediate actions, owners and approval steps for their workplace.

Training runs from 08:30 to 16:30 each day, providing about 6.5 contact hours daily. Time is allocated to tutor input, case analysis, group work, simulations, feedback and application planning across ten modules.

Questions about this course?

Ask about dates, fees, group bookings or running it for your team. Our training team replies by email.

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