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	Gender Analysis in Development	Participatory Poverty Assessment
Field	Development Studies	Development Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1989	2000
Originator	Caroline Moser; Naila Kabeer; Harvard Institute (Overholt et al.); March, Smyth & Mukhopadhyay (comparative synthesis)	World Bank (Deepa Narayan; Caroline Robb); building on Robert Chambers's participatory tradition
Type	Family of analytical frameworks for gender in development	Participatory qualitative poverty analysis method
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.	Narayan, D., Patel, R., Schafft, K., Rademacher, A., & Koch-Schulte, S. (2000). Voices of the Poor: Can Anyone Hear Us? New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank. ISBN: 9780195216011
Aliases	Gender Analysis Frameworks, Gender and Development Analysis, Comparative Gender Analysis, Gender Planning	PPA, Participatory Poverty Study, Voices of the Poor Method, Participatory Poverty Diagnosis
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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.	A Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) is an instrument for understanding poverty from the perspective of poor people themselves, using participatory methods to elicit their own definitions, experiences, and priorities rather than imposing externally fixed indicators. Pioneered by the World Bank in the 1990s and made famous by the multi-country 'Voices of the Poor' study, the PPA combines participatory rural appraisal tools with a deliberate concern to influence policy, complementing rather than replacing the quantitative household surveys on which official poverty measurement rests.