Disabled People’s Organisations Denmark (DPOD) Gender and Disability Toolbox SECTION I: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND DISABILITY
Table of Contents 1Introduction to the Gender and Disability Toolbox..........................................................................1 Gender Toolbox Section I: Relationship between Gender and Disability..............................................1 Gender Toolbox Section II: Gender-Sensitive Project Preparation........................................................1 Gender Toolbox Section III: Organisational Development from a Gender Perspective.........................1 2Relationship between gender and disability....................................................................................2 3Woman or man: Does it make a difference for inclusive development?.........................................2 3.1CASE I: Okello..............................................................................................................................2 3.2CASE II: Akot................................................................................................................................3 3.3Does gender make a difference for people with disabilities?.....................................................4 3.4CASE III: Okello............................................................................................................................5 3.5CASE IV: Akot...............................................................................................................................5 3.6How can inclusive development projects consider the different roles and needs of men and women with disabilities?.......................................................................................................................6 4Real-life case: Understanding the importance of inclusive development.......................................8 4.1Real-life case I: Women-only empowerment activity.................................................................8 4.2Real life case II: Gender-inclusive empowerment activity..........................................................8 4.3Impact of women-only development and gender-inclusive development.................................8 5Real life case: Understanding the socially enforced “asexuality” of women with disabilities.......10 5.1Real life case III: Aida, born disabled in central Uganda...........................................................10 5.2Analysis of socially enforced asexuality....................................................................................10 6Real life case: Understanding the “triple burden” of women with disabilities..............................12 6.1Real life case IV: Dorothy – a disabled woman who spent her entire life in an urban area.....12 6.2Analysis of the triple burden.....................................................................................................12 7Suggested further reading.............................................................................................................13 7.1Summary ofLimbs and Lives: Disability, Violent Conflict and Embodied Sociality in Northern Ugandaby Herbert Muyinda.............................................................................................................14 7.2Summary ofDisability, gender and societyby Renu Addlakha...............................................15 List of literature and references...............................................................................................................16
1Introduction to the 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. To this end, the Gender and Disability Toolbox addresses three distinct fields: 1.The relationship between gender and disability 2.Gender-sensitive project preparation 3.Organisational development from a gender perspective 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 anoverall introduction to gender and disability,which sets out both how disability changes the life situation of all persons and how this
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