This document describes the steps needed to prepare Gender and Youth Action Plans. Action Plans outline actionable next steps based on the conclusions and recommendations established in Gender Analyses and Youth Needs Assessments conducted during the inception phase of a Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA). The Action Plans are part of the complete Gender Analysis and Youth Needs Assessment packages. To support the development of Action Plans, this document provides an example Management Response Template and an Action Plan Template to assist RFSAs in finalizing these steps and submitting their complete Gender Analyses and/or Youth Needs Assessments to USAID/BHA for approval.

Each Gender Analysis should include a Gender Action Plan, and if the program has a significant youth dimension, the Youth Needs Assessment should include a Youth Action Plan. While the Gender Analysis and Youth Needs Assessments should remain separate, RFSAs can combine input into one Gender and Youth Action Plan for simplicity.

Action Plans clearly outline how to implement and integrate the results of the Gender Analysis or Youth Needs Assessment into the:

• Theory of Change (TOC);

• Activity re-design explanation/justification to reflect data; and

• Implementation of activities for the remainder of the program, including indicators, monitoring, evaluation, learning, research plan and approach, and target populations