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Gender is Fun! The GALS ExperienceLinda Mayoux Independent Consultant, GAMEChange Network28th June 2016

What is GALS?

GENDER JUSTICE VISIONA world where

women and men of all agesrealise their full potential

as economic, social and political actors, free from all gender discrimination,

for empowerment of themselves,

their families, their communities and global humankind

Redefine ‘culture’ in terms of underlying values of respect,

inclusion and equity

Women are intelligent actors,

not victims

Men are potential partners in change towards a just society

Women’s human rights in CEDAW are non-negotiable

Gender is Fun! The GALS Experience Linda Mayoux June 2016

Community-led empowerment methodology which aims to give

women as well as men more control over their lives

and catalyse and support a sustainable movement for gender justice.

WHAT IS WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT?

Women:Power toskills

resources

WomenPower within:

confidenceaspirations

Men

Power to

Power with

in

ALLPOWER OVER

= BADSTRATEGIES

FOR MENto change

gender inequality

STRATEGIES FOR WOMEN

to change gender inequality

GENDER TRANSFORMATION

POWER WITH


Why Gender Justice?• For women themselves – human rights for

half the population• For families – more efficient livelihoods and

well-being of children, youth and men• For traders and companies – increased

efficiency and profits higher up the value chain – local to global

• For local, national and global economies – increased growth, food security and poverty reduction, taxable resources, democracy



INTERLINKEDGENDER JUSTICE

STRATEGIES

Strategy 1:

Empowerment through Community-led

Gender Action Learning

Strategy 2:

Mainstreaming for innovation and

institutional change

Strategy 3:

Global Gender Justice Advocacy Movement

Gender Justice Framework1. Promotion of women’s human rights as stated in UN CEDAW

to enable both women and men to move forward in a just society– Right 1: Freedom from Violence– Right 2: Gender Equality in Decision-making– Right 3: Equal property rights– Right 4: Freedom of thought, movement and association– Right 5: Equal rights to work and leisure

2. Gender justice for men to enable them to challenge and change gender stereotypes and constraints preventing men and women from achieving their full human potential.


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Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Union, Uganda GALS Review Gender Diamond for Decision Making

Evolution of GALSGender Action Learning System: 2007 – ongoing•Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Union and Green Home•Oxfam Novib/IFAD WEMAN, GENVAD•IFAD Sierra Leone•TWIN UK Uganda, DRC, Malawi and Latin America

Gender Action Learning for Sustainability at Scale (GALSatScale) 2013 - ongoing•Happy Family Happy Coffee: Hivos and Ecom Trading Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Indonesia•Gender mainstreaming in cocoa sector with FLA, Nestle•IFAD, Kyrgyzstan with UNWomen and CDA•SNV Ethiopia horticulture chains•Financial Action Learning System (still to be developed)


Evolution of PALSOrigins and inspiration: 1998 - 2003•Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: PLA, Appreciative Enquiry, Most Significant Changes (DFID)•Group empowerment methodology for microfinance: REFLECT, Pictorial diaries, small business training (Action Aid, ICCO, DFID)

Beginnings: Participatory Action Learning System 2003 – 2007•Participatory review and gender planning ANANDI and KRC (Hivos)•Small business training in Uganda and India (Trickle Up) •LEAP Sudan (Oxfam Novib)•Gender training for Microfinance Pakistan, India and Latin America (Aga Khan Foundation, Hivos, Oxfam Novib, ICCO, Care, UNIFEM, ILO, MicroCredit Summit)•ILO Gender Mainstreaming in VCD Kenya and Ethiopia


Generic PALS Principles• Focus on the positive: visioning, strengths, opportunities, win-

win to build support for tackling challenges and conflicts

• Action from Day 1: SMART activities and targets tracked over time from the very first session

• Inclusion : everyone can be a leader of change

• Social justice is non-negotiable : including gender and generational justice

• Sustainability : ownership, pyramid peer upscaling and integration


‘Facipulation of Chaos’• Opening up• Individual first• Pairwise Discussion• Systematic participation• Listening as well as

leadership• ‘Facipulation of chaos’• Respect for all


Generic PALS Tools

• Road Journey – underlying strategic planning framework with SWOT analysis

• Trees – concept mapping• Circle maps – relationship mapping• Diamonds – analysing priorities for

change and impact assessment

Used at all levels, generally with symbol drawing, to increase clarity of thinking and

communication


• Vision• Vision Journey• Gender Balance Tree• Change Leadership Map• Multilane Highway

Individual voluntary peer sharing

Rocky Road to Diamond Dreams


Group sharing and planning

Gender Justice Review

• Vision Journeys• Challenge Action

Trees• Songs

• Gender Justice Diamonds• Challenge Action Trees• Multilane Highway• Interactive Theatre

Adaptations•Organisational gender mainstreaming•Happy Family Happy Coffee•Livelihood and business strengthening/Value Chain Development•Financial Action Learning System•Advocacy research•Other…

Each process is unique

• Purpose and issue• Context: levels of education, power

relations, cultural sensitivities, cultural forms

• Social capital and networks available• Role, capacities and relationships of

implementing organisation• Funding levels, availability and

conditions• Available resource organisations and

champions• TIME at each stage


ALL TOOLS AND SKILLS HAVE WIDER APPLICABILITY

GALS as Household Methodology


• Start with individual visions and self-interest

• Diversity of households• Action from Day 1• Identify the ‘gender spark’ and fan it –

then gender frameworks (eg CEDAW) later• Pyramid peer sharing plan 1-5-3-3….• Collective action• Multistakeholder – private sector,

government, researchers

Gender is fun!

• Drawing and emphasis on the visual• Songs and dances : promoting a

vision, questioning culture and teaching tools

• Interactive theatre and role play: visioning and most significant changes

• Participatory photography and video• Technology – democratising the web




New Home Women’s Development Association, Uganda GALS Review interactive facilitation

Why drawing?

•Clearer thoughts and concepts : if you can’t draw it you don’t

know it

•Clearer communication and visual impact of ideas and concepts

‘a picture is worth a thousand words’

•Developing the ‘right side of the brain’ Intelligence and memory

•Loosening up and getting people away from comfort zone

•Possibility of fitting in more information in a smaller space to

examine the relation between different elements

•Inclusion of people who cannot read and write - they are often

better at symbol drawing than people with higher levels of

formal education

Household Methodologies: Activity


The task

1)Question: What do you think household methodologies are?•What are we aiming at?•Who is involved? How do they relate?•What is your role?

2) Think about:•What do things look like? Happy, sad? Clothes? etc•Colour•Size•Placing on the page•Relationship

ENJOY YOURSELF


GamechangeNetwork (Gender Action Mainstreaming for Empowerment to Change) websites:•http://www.gamechangenetwork.info•http://www.gamechangenetwork.org GALS (Gender Action Learning for Sustainability) websites:•http://www.galsatscale.net •https://www.facebook.com/galsatscalenetwork/

Web resources



Vuasu Cooperative Union and SMS Kenya, Leadership Song



Coffee Partnership of Tanzania, Vision Journey song



New Home Women’s Development Association, Uganda GALS Review interactive facilitation

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