Use assessment and data to better understand how gender is considered in the work you fund, who your funding reaches and where opportunities or gaps may exist.

Over time, this information can feed back into strategy, future funding priorities and organisational learning. 

This Practice Guide explores how to bring a gender lens into grant assessment and data collection. It helps you consider how gender has informed program design, who benefits, whose experiences and perspectives have shaped the work, and what your data can tell you about your funding portfolio over time.

Download the Practice Guides on:

• Grant Assessment
• Data Collection & Internal Grant Coding

Outcomes

By the end of this guide, you will be better equipped to:

• assess how gender has been considered in the purpose and design of the work you fund
• identify where applications may overlook gendered differences or unintentionally reinforce existing inequalities
• consider beneficiaries, lived experience, leadership and governance as part of assessment
• collect useful gender-related information without creating unnecessary burden for grant partners
• use data to understand who your funding reaches and where investment is flowing
• identify patterns, opportunities and gaps across your funding portfolio.

Not sure where to begin? Take the Lens Check to reflect on your current grantmaking practice and identify which areas of learning may be most useful to prioritise.