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	Gender Analysis in Development	Capability Approach Measurement
Field	Development Studies	Development Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1989	1999
Originator	Caroline Moser; Naila Kabeer; Harvard Institute (Overholt et al.); March, Smyth & Mukhopadhyay (comparative synthesis)	Amartya Sen; Martha Nussbaum
Type	Family of analytical frameworks for gender in development	Normative framework for evaluating well-being and development
Seminal source	Moser, C. O. N. (1989). Gender planning in the Third World: Meeting practical and strategic gender needs. World Development, 17(11), 1799–1825.	Sen, A. (1999). Development as Freedom. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN: 9780385720274
Aliases	Gender Analysis Frameworks, Gender and Development Analysis, Comparative Gender Analysis, Gender Planning	Capability Approach, Sen's Capability Approach, Functionings and Capabilities Measurement, Human Capability Framework
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Summary	Gender Analysis in Development is the systematic examination of the different roles, responsibilities, resources, and constraints of women and men, and of the relations between them, in order to understand how development interventions affect and are affected by gender. Spanning a family of frameworks — the Harvard Analytical Framework, Caroline Moser's gender-planning approach, and Naila Kabeer's Social Relations Approach — it provides comparative tools to surface inequalities, distinguish practical from strategic needs, and design interventions and gender-mainstreaming strategies grounded in sex-disaggregated evidence.	The capability approach, developed by Amartya Sen and given a concrete list-based form by Martha Nussbaum, evaluates individual well-being and social arrangements in the space of capabilities — the real freedoms people have to achieve the kinds of lives they have reason to value — rather than in the space of income, resources, or subjective utility. Measurement under the approach means identifying valued functionings, the resources and conversion factors that turn resources into functionings, and the freedom people enjoy to choose among them.