KSA 9: Business Development and Innovation
Thrust 3: Business Development
Programme 13: SASTEP
Title : Development of a gender intentionality strategy and framework for SASTEP
ToR ID :1009833
Contact Person: Akin Akinsente <akina@wrc.org.za>
Closing Date: 26 March 2021
Gender is a socially and culturally constructed ideas of what it is to be male or female in a specific context.
Intentionality means the fact of being deliberate or purposive on a particular issue. Gender intentionality
can therefore be loosely defined as the fact of being deliberate or purposive on gender issues. There is a
perception that gender intentionality is biased towards the female and exclusion of the male gender.
Gender intentional as opposed to gender neutrality is more inclusionary and takes a view of the diverse
needs of both genders. The interrogation of issues through a gender lens tends to result in better outcomes
for society as the needs, aspirations and rights of different groups are not taken for granted or glossed over
but actively examined to produce an inclusive outcome.
