SII on Gender in Emergencies

Workplanning steps

What is the Gender in Emergencies SII?

Guiding research questions:1. How are CARE’s humanitarian response programs

affecting the drivers of gender equality in crisis-affected communities, during and after emergencies?

2. How do CARE’s ways of working in humanitarian response – our culture, structures, capabilities, and accountabilities – affect gendered outcomes?

The SII on Gender in Emergencies explores how CARE’s humanitarian work contributes to advancing gender equality

Its purpose is to build grounded clarity on the nature and drivers of enduring impact, and to increase CARE’s contribution to it.

An SII is organization-wide research, reflection, and change.

Its principles demand methods that foster personal and organizational change

What is an SII?

What are we looking at

WHAT IS CHANGING IN COMMUNITIES WE SERVE

(GiE outcomes/impacts and change

processes)

WHAT IT IS ABOUT THE WAYS WE WORK

that might be connected with those changes

(CARE & wider humanitarian

norms and systems)

WHAT DO WE VALUE, AND PAY ATTENTION TO ON THE GROUND? actual implementation, feedback and learning loops strengthen GiE impacts over time

We start with CARE’s impact focus on gender equality, using existing concepts and tools... to track how dynamics of crisis and response impact upon gender equality and associated capacities and vulnerabilities in the short term, and over time…

…and how humanitarian systems and norms help or hinder positive gendered social change.

BUILDING A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR GIE IMPACT INQUIRY

Adapted Gender at Work FrameworkDraft GiE Impact Framework

WHAT METHODS ARE INVOLVED?

Society-level Inquiry

•Open-ended narrative harvesting

•Hypothesis-driven impact tracing

Organization-level Inquiry

•Surfacing staff knowledges

•Intervention mapping•Org analysis

System-level Inquiry

•Policy analysis•Civil Society mapping

Areas of Inquiry

Societal gender roles and relations

1. Gender division of Labour

2. Control over resources

3. Access to public spaces and services

4. Meaningful participation in decision-making

5. Control over one’s body and relationships

6. Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

Organizational: in CARE, in humanitarian ecosystem

• Formal individual/group dynamics: political will of leadership, publications and advocacy, collaboration

• Formal systemic: accountability mechanisms, programmatic and operational gender integration, gender analysis, budgeting, etc.) , donor base

• Informal individual/group dynamics: staff consciousness, support networks among marginalized groups

• Informal systems: space for reflection, recognition of systemic power/power analysis, deep structures and culture, space for reflection

CROSS-CUTTING: Gendered values & aspirations (individual) and social norms & expectations (institutional)

From frameworks to methods and teams of inquiry

WHO’S INVOLVED?

Local research team leader(s)

External feminist research consultant with emergency experience:

Emergency response workers (CARE and key partners)

Community members (conveners and trust-bearers)

Other key staff (promoting CO-wide integrated learning and change)

NIGERIA SII: WHO’S INVOLVED?

• Team Global SII: Fatouma• CARE Nigeria HQ: KML Advisor• CARE Nigeria team in Borno: SRHR And Protection project team

Local research team leader(s) :

• see list

External feminist research consultant with emergency experience:

Emergency response workers (CARE and key partners)

• participants• gatekeepers

Community members (conveners and trust-bearers)

• CO Leadership (Overall, Humanitarian)• Human Resources

Other key staff (promoting CO-wide integrated learning and change)

WHAT’S INVOLVED?

Society-level Inquiry

•Open-ended narrative harvesting

•Hypothesis-driven impact tracing

Organization-level Inquiry

•Surfacing staff knowledges

•Intervention mapping•Org analysis

System-level Inquiry

•Policy analysis•Civil Society mapping

Parameters

•What staffing and resources are available?•What are ethics and safety protocols and considerations that shape this learning?•What are the budget, human resources and time available? And their constraints?

Grounding

•What are learning priorities and action research already happening for the office?•How do these questions and learning exercises interact with the global SII questions?

Evidence base

•What documents exist that we can review?•What are processes where SII inquiry can be integrated? (build on current work plan)

Strategy

•what kind of tools would be appropriate in this context, and with whom?•format of getting information•types of things we can ask about

•To do list of things needed to be in place + steps to make this happen

Areas of Inquiry: Sources & Methods

Societal gender roles and relations

1. Gender division of Labour

2. Control over resources

3. Access to public spaces and services

4. Meaningful participation in decision-making

5. Control over one’s body and relationships

6. Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

Organizational: in CARE, in humanitarian ecosystem

• Formal individual/group dynamics: political will of leadership, publications and advocacy, collaboration

• Formal systemic: accountability mechanisms, programmatic and operational gender integration, gender analysis, budgeting, etc.) , donor base

• Informal individual/group dynamics: staff consciousness, support networks among marginalized groups

• Informal systems: space for reflection, recognition of systemic power/power analysis, deep structures and culture, space for reflection

CROSS-CUTTING: Gendered values & aspirations (individual) and social norms & expectations (institutional)

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Societal gender roles and relations

1. Gender division of Labour

2. Control over resources

3. Access to public spaces and services

4. Meaningful participation in decision-making

5. Control over one’s body and relationships

6. Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

4 - report back to community respondents and feedback loops

FORMAT: wall newsletter, meeting/forum, workshop, policy brief

3– processing what we are learning:

WHO: research team FORMAT: Writeshop/workshop, Listening sessions

APPROACHES: Sense-making, mapping learning,

2– learning from those impactedSOURCES: local leaders/gatekeepers, people impacted by emergencies and

connected to aid

FORMAT: experiential workshops, tea time chats, FGDs, interviews

TOOLS/APPROACHES:. appreciative inquiry, network analysis, Vignettes (SNAP tool), Outcome mapping, Transect walks,

1– surfacing what we know

SOURCES: Existing analyses, staff and partners, other emergency responders

FORMAT: desk review, KIIs, FGD, workshop

TOOLS/APPROACHES: Appreciative inquiry, Outcome mapping, peer dialogues

Mix and match:

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Organizational: in CARE, in humanitarian ecosystem

1.Formal individual/group dynamics: political will of leadership, publications and advocacy, collaboration

2.Formal systemic: accountability mechanisms, programmatic and operational gender integration, gender analysis, budgeting, etc.) , donor base

3.Informal individual/group dynamics: staff consciousness, support networks among marginalized groups

4.Informal systems: space for reflection, recognition of systemic power/power analysis, deep structures and culture, space for reflection

3– processing what we are learning:

WHO: Research team, CARE stakeholders, humanitarian stakeholders

FORMAT: Sensemaking workshop, writeshop, listening sessions

2– learning from those involved

SOURCES: staff, humanitarian actors, partners

FORMATS: FGDs , Survey monkey, interviews, workshop, desk review

APPROACHES/TOOLS: SWOT, network mapping, organizational climate and

gender integration review, power analysis

1 – document reviewSOURCES: Policies, proposals, staffing and partnership

structures, funding pipelines/portfolio, gender markers, coordination structures & mechanisms of accountability

APPROACHES/TOOLS: power mapping, secondary meta-analysis, longitudinal analysis

Mix and Match

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Processing data and final report: End of May & June

Transcription, organize and clean data first-cut analysis with CARE Nigeria Final documentation: on results, learning process.

Learning Workshop? Suggest adaptations to approaches and tools

Community and stakeholder dialogues: first 2 weeks of May

Plan for light community dialogues: with whom, how light/opportunities for conversation (pilot, adjust, adapt) mobilization/strategies to engage stakeholders undertake dialogues + record data

Light facilitated staff reflective dialogue: last week of April

work with research team on facilitating dialogue and reflection with staff, recording/documenting

Data collection tools: by 1st week of April

Identify where learning will take place Identify key opportunities for engaging each phase of learning

Draft tools : staff and partners, participants, gatekeepers, service providers, other agency stakeholders?

Data and information mapping: by March 25

Articulate analysis framework, ethical inquiry protocol Map potential data sources Review literature and develop summary

Assembling the team: Feb- March 15

Recruit WA consultant and finalize TOR for Fatouma, CARE Nigeria KML Person? Collect: CARE Nigeria Project workplan Detail calendar of work, sort financial

systems implications HEAT Training for SII Core Team Member