This practical manual provides some well used tools for staff to use in the design of relief and development programmes in the field. It will help in ensuring that projects take into account the multi-faceted role that gender relations play in dictating a range of social, economical and political conditions that make up and affect both positively and negatively the lives of poor people.
UNDP estimates that of the 1.3billion people classed as living in poverty 70% are women. There is growing international recognition that the ‘face’ of poverty is increasingly female.