Gender appGenovate Toolkit

WHAT

This is a tool for gender mainstreaming collaboratively created by two universities and some industry stakeholders, a gender mainstreaming checklist. The tool is designed to facilitate the integration of a gender and diversity perspective in projects and other activities. The app contains a checklist of practical gender mainstreaming in projects or other activities.

WHY

It is useful to test how a project meets different quality requirements for gender equality and diversity. Using the gender app checklist becomes a tool for facilitators and participants to measure gender equality and diversity mainstreaming progress.


Time
x h

People
xx persons

Dificulty
1

Phases
IDENTIFY-SHARE-GENOVATE

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HOW

Prepare
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Use the checklist to assess how gender and diversity is implemented within the innovation system. Use it before, during, and after a certain process to measure how knowledge, actions, and understandings change. The gender app can be applied in different contexts and languages.

  • Perspectives: include gender equality and diversity perspectives in the project from start to finish
  • Budget: a realistic budget is a fundamental requirement
  • Legitimacy: involve the project sponsor and the project leader in the work
  • Competence: engage both women and men with diverse skills in the project team
  • Gender balance: establish gender balance in working groups and the steering group
  • Responsibility: appoint a person responsible for the gender equality and diversity work
  • Team: establish gender equality and diversity team
  • Agenda: set up gender equality and diversity on the meeting agenda of the steering group and working groups
  • Anchor: the gender equality and diversity perspectives should permeate the entire project
  • Reflection: use reflection as a working model
  • Communication: communicate to include rather than to exclude people
  • Consequences: before decisions are taken, consider the effect on both women and men
  • Question: ingrained gender roles, ways of thinking and ways of working
  • Challenge: stereotypes about men and women
  • Quality control: enhance quality through on-going evaluation
  • Follow-up: the process
Reflect
  • What did we learn?
  • What did participants learn?

Methods

Gender app

x h xx persons
WHAT

This is a tool for gender mainstreaming collaboratively created by two universities and some industry stakeholders, a gender mainstreaming checklist. The tool is designed to facilitate the integration of a gender and diversity perspective in projects and other activities. The app contains a checklist of practical gender mainstreaming in projects or other activities.

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Gender observations

2 h 1-3 persons
WHAT

Gender observations is a tool to explore and bring to life differences in how women and men act and react in everyday interactions.

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Gender system analysis

2-40 h 1-5 persons
WHAT

Despite a growing awareness of gender inequality there are still obsolete structures and practices within e.g. innovation systems. Acker for this reason proposed analysing gender systems in relation to structures, interactions, symbols, and identities.

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Value exercises

WHAT

Value exercise is a tool that encourages a discussion about your values, your team’s values, your organization’s values, and society’s values. The exercises can be a good way to begin a seminar or session, as an “ice breaker”, and as a way to stimulate new thinking. It can be varied in a number of ways, depending on issues, what statements are important to explore, and what prior knowledge and understanding participants have.

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World café

3-4 h 6-xx persons
WHAT

World café is a tool that invites stakeholders and other interested parties to explore questions and issues.

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Critical Incident Technique

2-4 h 1-7 persons
WHAT

Developed by Flanagan in 1954, the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) is originally a technique for collecting observations on human behaviour to identify a particular event that somehow has been critical, either positively or negatively. The technique can be used in interviews, in focus groups, or in workshop settings within a work group.

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Personas

2-40 h 2-7 persons
WHAT

Personas are fictional descriptions of a person whose goals, feelings, perceptions, experiences, etc. are relevant to the work group it is designed for. It is a commonly implemented design method to make the design team emphasize user experiences.

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Action plan for change

X h X persons
WHAT

An action plan helps us go from visions to reality. It describes the way your team will use its knowledge, strategies, and competences to meet the objective of a gender equality and diversity aware innovation system. An action plan consists of a number of short- and long-term actions.

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