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Gender and disability toolbox
The overall aim of this Gender and Disability Toolbox is to help DPOD member organisations and
their Southern partners to mainstream the gender dimension. This means that gender should not feature as a separate and additional consideration when planning projects, but should be built into the organisations’ general way of thinking and working, starting from the knowledge that men and women differ in their roles and positions in society, and therefore have different needs within projects and organisations. Accordingly, for a project or an organisation to realise its full potential, the needs of both men and women with disabilities must be considered in project and organisational frameworks.
Gender Toolbox Section I: Relationship between Gender and Disability
This section provides user-friendly information on the relationship between gender and disability. It begins with an overall introduction to gender and disability, which sets out both how disability changes the life situation of all persons and how this differs for men and women as regards their
roles in society, family structures, production and reproduction.
The relationship between gender and disability is illustrated in practice by means of three separate real-life stories provided by the National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda (NUWODU) and reedited into narrative case studies. Thereafter, two separate articles delve into the subjects of gender and disability in post-conflict northern Uganda and the general history of gender and disability.
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Gender Toolbox Section II: Gender-Sensitive Project Preparation
This section offers user-friendly tools to introduce gender into project planning through an annotated guide to DPOD’s project application format. The presentation seeks to guide the user through the project-planning phases in general, suggesting how to address gender as a consistent and
natural aspect of projects.
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Gender Toolbox Section III: Organisational Development from a Gender Perspective
This third and final section of the toolbox focuses on aiding DPOD’s partner organisations in building gender-sensitivity into their general organisational documents. To this end, annotated guides offer user-friendly ideas on how to develop gender-sensitive statutes,
rules of procedure, gender policy and strategic planning.
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