Maintaining Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GSI)

Lecture 01 of 7

Why GSI is a planning discipline, not an add-on

What Gender Equality and Social Inclusion actually means as a working discipline, and why bolting it onto a finished plan produces worse outcomes than building it in from the start.

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In this lecture

  • Define GSI as distinct from a stand-alone women's programme
  • Name the groups a GSI lens routinely misses
  • Explain why late-stage GSI review changes little

Not a chapter, a lens

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A GSI annex added after a plan is written rarely changes what the plan actually does. This opening lecture shows what changes when the same lens is applied from the first consultation instead - using one district plan revised at two different stages to show the difference.

GSI is wider than gender alone

Gender is the most visible axis of exclusion and the one most often addressed, but disability, age, ethnicity, language and poverty routinely decide who benefits from a plan just as much. A GSI approach that only asks about women misses most of who it is meant to include.

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  • GSI Module 01 - slide deckSlides · 1.8 MB
  • GSI glossary of termsPDF · 260 KB

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