CANWACH MEMBER SURVEY | GENDER EQUALITY AND HEALTH

Over the next two years, CanWaCH aims to increase capacity and knowledge-sharing on gender equality and global health. Our goal is to build on strengths, address challenges and leverage opportunities for learning and collaboration identified by members.

The purpose of this survey is gather information on member capacity and interest in capacity-building related to gender equality and health. The findings of this survey will help inform our knowledge-sharing and capacity-building work.

Please direct this survey to the person in your organization best placed to answer gender equality and health questions as we would like to get a single, consolidated response from your organization.

Your time in filling out this survey is greatly appreciated. It will take approximately 10-15 minutes. Your interview responses and contributions will be reported in aggregate, and will not be attributed to you.

Please fill in your organization’s response by November 30, 2018. For further information, contact Kristen Ostling, Senior Gender Equality Advisor at CanWaCH, at kostling@canwach.ca.

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* 1. Organization Name

a) Policy

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* 2. Does your organization have a gender equality policy?

Yes

Other gender-related policy (please specify)

b) Strategy

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* 3. Does your organization have a gender equality strategy?

Yes

Other gender-related strategy (please specify)

c) Approach

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* 4. Which of the following approaches does your organization use? Check all that apply:

Gender mainstreaming: Gender mainstreaming involves integration of gender throughout program and policy design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, with a view to promoting gender equality.

Gender targeting: Measures in a program or policy that are specifically aimed at meeting identified needs of women, men, girls, and boys.

Monitoring and evaluating of gender equality results: Program monitoring and evaluation to track results that contribute to reducing inequality between women, girls, men and boys.

Participatory: Meaningfully incorporating the voices, experience, knowledge and perspectives of ”beneficiaries” as agents of change, including women and girls, in designing, developing, monitoring and evaluation of projects.

Gender responsive: Gender responsive policies and practices aim to ensure that the needs and rights of women, girls, boys and men, are equally addressed.

Rights-based: Rights-based approaches acknowledge international human rights standards, promote and protect human rights, and empower rights-holders to hold duty-bearers accountable. They seek to analyze the root causes of inequality, and redress discriminatory practices and unjust distributions of power that block sustainable development. Gender equality is a rights-based approach.

Gender transformative: Gender transformative approaches address systemic barriers to gender equality in health, including attitudes, behaviour, beliefs, norms, values, power structures, policy and legislation. They also seek to transform unequal gender relations to promote shared power, control of resources, decision-making, and support for women’s empowerment.

None of the above

Other gender-related approaches (please specify)

d) Tools

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* 5. Which of the following tools does your organization use? Check all that apply:

Definition of gender and gender equality: Shared and used within your organization

Gender-based analysis: Gender-based analysis is a critical examination of how differences in gender roles, activities, needs, opportunities and rights affect men, women, girls and boys in specific situations or contexts. Gender-based analysis helps us understand unequal power and patterns of participation in economic, social, political and legal structures as well as the implications of these differences.

Gender equality measures: Performance indicators that measure the scale of a project, program, or organization’s contribution to gender equality results. For example, OECD DAC Gender Equality Marker Global Affairs Canada, Framework for Assessing Gender Equality Results.

Gender disaggregated data: Gender disaggregated data involves collecting information on the different experiences, needs, interests, and access to opportunities and resources of men and women so as to establish an accurate picture of gender gaps and power dynamics at the local, national and global level.

Gender capacity assessment: Assessment tools that gauge the understanding, knowledge and skills at the systems, organizational and individual levels on gender equality and women's empowerment.

None of the above

Other gender-related tools (please specify)

e) Training

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* 6. Does your organization provide training on gender equality and health?

Yes

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* 7. If yes to Question 6: To whom? Check all that apply.

Internally: Staff, Board, Volunteers

Other Canadian organizations

In country partners

Government

Implementing partners

Beneficiaries

All of the above

Other (please specify)

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* 8. If yes to Question 6: In what areas? Check all that apply.

Gender-based analysis

Gender mainstreaming

Gender transformative approaches

Gender monitoring and evaluation

Other (please specify)

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* 9. If yes to Question 6: How often? Check all that apply.

Regularly

Infrequently

Within the past 12 months

Within the past 6 months

e) Monitoring and Evaluation

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* 10. Does your organization measure gender equality results?

Yes

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* 11. If yes to Question 10: At what level? Check all that apply.

Immediate outcome

Intermediate outcome

Ultimate outcome

Other (please specify)

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* 12. Does your organization collect and analyze data disaggregated by any of the following factors? Check all that apply.

Sex

Age group

Marital status

Sexual orientation (LGBTQ)

Education

Employment

Disability

Faith/religious affiliation

Ethnicity

Race

Caste

Class

Refugee status

Citizenship

Income

Other context-specific factors (please specify)

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* 13. How do you use gender and other disaggregated data? Check all that apply.

Program design and development

Program evaluation

Policy advocacy

Communicating results

Reporting

Don’t use gender or other disaggregated data

Other (please specify)

e) Health and Gender Equality Learning Opportunities

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* 14. Would your organization be interested in participating in gender equality and health workshops and other learning and knowledge-sharing opportunities?

Yes

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* 15. If yes to Question 14: What are the top three priorities for your organization in terms of gender equality and health learning and knowledge-sharing with CanWaCH members and other stakeholders?

Gender Transformative Approaches

Gender-Based Analysis

Conducting a gender assessment to inform programming and/or gender equality strategies

Policy

Strategy

Reporting

Gender Equality and Health Monitoring and Evaluation

Program Design

Theory of Change

Policy and Advocacy

Public Engagement for Gender Equality and Health

Communicating Gender Equality and Health Results and Impact

Research

Gender Equality Induction Training for New Staff

Rights Based Approaches

Gender and Sexual Diversity

Other (please specify)

f) Gender Dedicated Staff

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* 16. Does your organization have a dedicated Gender Advisor or Specialist?

Yes

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* 17. If yes to Question 16: How many?

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* 18. Are the gender human resources sufficient?

Yes

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* 19. Please provide the contact information for your organization’s lead gender advisor(s) / specialist(s), if applicable:

Name

Title

Email Address

Phone Number

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* 20. Please provide the contact information for your organization’s lead gender advisor(s) / specialist(s), if applicable:

Name

Title

Email Address

Phone Number

g) Challenges and Strengths

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* 21. What are the top three challenges your organization faces in integrating gender equality in your work?

Challenge #1 (50 words max)

Challenge #2 (50 words max)

Challenge #3 (50 words max)

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* 22. What are your organization's top three strengths in integrating gender equality in your work?

Strength #1 (50 words max)

Strength #2 (50 words max)

Strength #3 (50 words max)

h) Follow-Up Interview

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* 23. In the coming weeks, CanWaCH will be conducting interviews to gather further information on gender equality and health. I, or a representative within my organization, would be willing to participate in a short follow-up interview.

Yes

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* 24. If yes, please provide the following contact information:

Name

Organization

Title

Email Address

Phone Number

THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN THIS SURVEY. YOUR INPUT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED. To receive a high-level report back on our survey findings, contact Kristen Ostling at kostling@canwach.ca