Thematic brief gender and culture

This Thematic Brief provides quick guidance on the most important issues relating to gender and culture.

This Brief is addressed to staff from development cooperation agencies who are in-volved in the different phases of programmes and projects.

Here they will find information on the most important gender issues at stake in relation to culture and how to address them, indicators that can be used to monitor whether a programme is integrating gender dimensions, examples of gender-sensitive develop-ment actions and references to further information and tools related to the relation be-tween gender and culture.

Contents

Introduction

Gender issues in relation to culture 

A roadmap for gender mainstreaming in development programmes and being sensitive to the role of 'culture'

Questions for gender analysis

Gender sensitive indicators, including women's cultural empowerment

Examples of gender-sensitive projects in relation to gender and culture