What is a Gender-Transformative Framework for Nutrition?
The Gender-Transformative Framework for Nutrition (GTFN) is a conceptual model supported by research and practice that enables improved gender analysis, solutions design, and monitoring and evaluation of nutrition approaches, as well as interventions promoting women and girls’ empowerment. The GTFN applies systems thinking that enables users to critically examine the multi-sectoral drivers of malnutrition using a gender equality and empowerment lens. By exploring the complexity of factors across systems that interact and foster or limit empowerment, it helps to identify areas for action that not only improve nutrition outcomes but also transform gender relations, empower women and girls, and create more equitable systems. Gender equality is the state or condition that realizes the equal enjoyment of human rights, socially valued goods, opportunities, and resources for women and girls, men and boys, and individuals of diverse gender identities. Its pursuit promotes a rights-based approach which seeks to develop the capacity of duty-bearers to meet their obligations while encouraging rights holders to claim their rights. It includes expanding freedoms and voice, improving power dynamics and relations, transforming gender roles and enhancing overall quality of life so that everyone achieves their full potential.
A gender-transformative approach requires an understanding of how power dynamics limit or enhance the participation of women and girls and their ability to claim their rights. Gendertransformative actions “actively” seek to build equitable social norms, structures, and policies, in addition to individual gender-equitable behaviour, while also transforming harmful root causes of inequality.
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