This interactive session will review the Gender and Youth Analysis Toolkit's essential components, including frameworks, checklists, and 25 tools designed to thoroughly capture the needs, interests, and opportunities of young women. Learn how to apply these resources to create an enabling environment for young women and marginalized groups, thereby contributing to economic and social development.
Thursday, August 10, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time
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About the Event
The current global youth bulge, rise of violent extremism, and high global youth unemployment have underscored the urgency of investing in youth. In general, young women are typically more disadvantaged than young men due to a variety of factors ranging from levels of education, limited access to resources and information, time-consuming household burdens, and gender and social norms. Creating an enabling environment for young women to have productive careers will not only contribute to the global economy, but it is likely to have positive economic and social impacts on households and communities.
Current guidance and templates for gender- and/or youth-focused analyses for economic growth activities fall short in providing the necessary information for designing and monitoring effective interventions. This interactive webinar aims to bridge that gap by reviewing the Youth and Gender Analysis toolkit which provides examples of best practices and links to tools that program implementers can apply to ensure that information about young women’s needs, interests, challenges, and opportunities are adequately captured during the analysis process. The toolkit:
- Introduces different frameworks and demonstrates how they can be consolidated;
- Presents a checklist for youth-focused gender analysis; and
- Provides descriptions of and links to 25 tools from USAID, program implementers, and other donors that can be used to carry out or supplement youth-focused gender analysis
We will be joined by Michelle Stern who serves as a Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) consultant where she provides technical assistance to donors and implementing partners related to gender equality, women’s empowerment, and positive youth development (PYD) throughout the project cycle, including start-up analyses to guide project design, staff training, development of relevant indicators, and assessments during life-of-project. She has a background in qualitative and quantitative research and analysis covering a broad range of topics related to economic growth, food security and community development.
The toolkit is designed to help ensure that youth- and/or gender-focused analyses during the start-up phases of economic-growth activities adequately capture the constraints and opportunities faced by young women. Our hope is that this webinar will help program implementers better analyze the cultural, political, economic, and social environmental factors impacting women, youth, marginalized groups, and other social groups relevant to their specific contexts.
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About the Community of Practice
The YP2LE Learning Network brings together diverse stakeholders who seek to learn more and share about youth development. As one of six communities of practice (CoPs), the Gender CoP helps members share and benefit from collective learning. Learn more about the Gender CoP and other CoPs on YouthPower.org and register to connect with these communities.
You must be a registered member of YouthPower.org in order to participate in the discussion group. Register today!
About YouthPower 2: Learning and Evaluation (YP2LE)
YP2LE is a USAID-funded activity focused on building and disseminating evidence on Positive Youth Development (PYD). YP2LE’s goal is to give program implementers, researchers, and young changemakers the information, tools, and resources they need to develop high-quality, impactful, and sustainable youth programs.