Strategies for gender equality and women

empowerment
Gender Action Learning Systems-Tools

Vision Road
Journey

Gender Justice
Diamonds
GALS?
G- GENDER

A- ACTION

L- LEARNING

S- SYSTEM

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 Women’s Economic empowerment using GALS (Gender Action
Learning System)
GALS (Gender Action Learning System) is a community-led empowerment
methodology which aims to give women as well as men more control over
their lives and catalyse and support a sustainable movement for gender
justice.

- GALS is a household methodology that puts people in the centre of the frame,
working with household members to make the most of their opportunities,
helping them to identify and overcome obstacles and, quite simply, to change
their lives for the better.

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 GALS: what for?
• Individual life and
livelihood planning

• Collective action and

gender advocacy for
change

• Institutional
awareness-building
and changing power
relations
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 GALS CONT’D
• GALS comprises a series of tools that enable
household members to negotiate their needs
and interests and find innovative, gender-
equitable solutions in livelihoods planning and
value chain development.

• Establishment of equitable participatory

processes for economic decision-making at
various levels.

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 Tools
• Road journeys: individual, collective and multi-
stakeholder vision RJ

• Trees: Challenge-action, gender Balance, multi-

stakeholder win-win tree

• Circle maps: Social empowerment, leadership,

institutions, markets

• Diamonds: gender, poverty, property

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 Key steps in GALS
• Step 1 assists participants to develop individual and then
household pictorial visions, before diagnosing their current
situation.
• step 2). In order to promote a sense of achievement and
cause-effect linkages, the participants reflect on where they
began.
• step 3, participants identify the opportunities and constraints
that will affect the realization of their vision.
• Step 4 focuses upon enabling participants to identify their
targets and milestones.
• step 5 asks participants to set activities on the road towards
the achievement of their overall vision.
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Vision road journey

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