SEX AND GENDER BASED ANALYSIS FOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND NUTRITION (AHN) PROGRAMS

To follow a gender mainstreaming process in the REACTS-IN project, Nutrition International in Kenya contracted Bodmando Consulting Group to conduct a Sex and Gender Based Analysis (SGBA) of Adolescent Healt and Nutrition (AHN) programs, to reflect on how the project can better promote gender equality and respond to gender barriers and any potential enablers in Elgeyo Marakwet for the adolescent nutrition program. The specific objectives included the following.

• Assess the gender equality issues relevant to Adolescent Health and Nutrition in Elgeyo Marakwet. These include socio-economic status, access to nutrition, vulnerabilities to malnutrition, potential to participate, etc.
•  Identify and explain gender barriers, lessons, key entry points that worked well in the Adolescent Health and Nutrition programs.
• Assess Nutrition International’s current outcomes and outputs and indicators in the joint nutrition financing project and REACTS-IN design and suggest opportunities to be more gender sensitive and responsive as applicable.
• Identify potential opportunities and enablers and provide recommendations for developing short- and long-term strategies that will promote gender equality and girls’ and women’s empowerment through the programs.