Gender Mainstreaming in Trade Training Course

Participants can conduct a structured gender analysis for a trade-related intervention.

• Harvard Analytical Framework: activity, access, control and influencing factors
• Gender at Work Framework applied to formal and informal change
• Problem-tree analysis identifying gendered barriers and underlying causes
• Gender analysis questions for policy notes, project concepts and terms
• Assumption testing to identify unequal risks and unintended consequences
• Gender analysis matrix linking constraints, evidence, actions and accountability

Participants can use available evidence to assess gendered trade outcomes and evidence gaps.

• Sex-disaggregated data sources for firms, workers, traders and producers
• Trade statistics interpreted alongside labour, enterprise and household survey data
• Gender data gap assessment using relevance, reliability and disaggregation criteria
• Qualitative evidence from interviews, focus groups and trader observations
• Distributional analysis comparing benefits, costs and risks between groups
• Evidence register documenting sources, limitations, findings and data needs

Participants can identify gender implications within trade policy options and regulatory reforms.

• Tariff changes assessed for consumer prices, producers and employment
• Non-tariff measures and compliance costs facing small women-owned enterprises
• Rules of origin implications for women producers and regional traders
• Services trade barriers affecting women entrepreneurs and professional mobility
• Public procurement rules supporting supplier diversity and fair competition
• Gender impact assessment integrated into policy appraisal processes

Participants can design inclusion measures for border procedures and trade-facilitation reforms.

• WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement provisions relevant to small-scale traders
• Border process mapping from arrival, declaration, inspection and release
• Safety and harassment risk assessment at formal border crossings
• Simplified trade regimes for low-value consignments and informal traders
• Trusted trader schemes assessed for accessibility and exclusion risks
• Grievance mechanisms with confidential reporting and response protocols

Participants can identify practical interventions that improve women’s participation in trade value chains.

• Gender-responsive value-chain mapping of roles, margins, risks and decision rights
• Market systems analysis identifying constraints in supporting functions and rules
• Buyer requirements affecting certification, quality, packaging and delivery capacity
• Access-to-finance barriers facing women-owned export and supplier businesses
• Collective action models through cooperatives, associations and producer organisations
• Digital trade opportunities assessed for connectivity, skills and payment access

Participants can plan inclusive consultations and manage protection risks in trade interventions.

• Stakeholder mapping by influence, interest, representation and exclusion risk
• Consultation design reaching women traders, workers and producer groups
• Accessible engagement methods for persons with disabilities and remote communities
• Do No Harm analysis for trade reforms and market interventions
• Safeguarding referral pathways for harassment, exploitation and abuse disclosures
• Feedback loops documenting responses, decisions and unresolved concerns

Participants can build results frameworks that measure inclusion outcomes from trade interventions.

• Theory of Change linking trade activities to gender equality outcomes
• Results chains distinguishing outputs, outcomes, impacts and assumptions
• Gender-sensitive indicators with definitions, disaggregation and collection methods
• Baseline design for participation, income, agency and market-access measures
• OECD DAC gender equality policy marker applied to intervention objectives
• Evaluation questions testing reach, benefit distribution and unintended effects

Participants can assign resources, responsibilities and governance arrangements for gender mainstreaming.

• Gender-responsive budgeting linking planned actions, costs and expected results
• Budget tagging methods for gender-targeted and gender-integrated expenditure
• RACI matrix assigning responsibility, accountability, consultation and information roles
• Terms of reference specifying gender expertise and deliverable requirements
• Procurement evaluation criteria rewarding inclusive supplier and delivery practices
• Management dashboards tracking actions, indicators, risks and corrective decisions

Participants can produce a timed gender mainstreaming plan for a priority trade intervention.

• Priority intervention selection using impact, feasibility and institutional readiness criteria
• Gap analysis against existing policies, procedures, data and staff capability
• Action plan sequencing immediate actions, medium-term reforms and review points
• Change management stakeholders identified through sponsor, owner and implementer roles
• Risk register covering resistance, data limitations, resources and political constraints
• Implementation commitments documented with milestones, owners and evidence requirements