What is Gender-based Analysis Plus?

Video / May 13, 2024

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(video displays) The Logo of GBA PLUS appears on the left with the title “What is GBA Plus? DND/CAF GBA Plus Toolkit for Junior Officers and Non-Commissioned Leaders” on the right over a white background.

(video displays) A blue box with the text “Gender-based Analysis Plus or GBA Plus has been part of the Government of Canada since 1995. Since its inception, many parts of the Defence Team have been doing great work to apply GBA Plus in their respective areas. By watching and engaging with the videos in the GBA Plus toolkit, you are joining a broader movement for positive culture change through the application of GBA Plus in the defence environment” appears over a white background.

[Section 1. What is GBA Plus?]

(video displays) A stylized photograph of DND/CAF members walking in uniform appears. It is quickly replaced by a photograph of DND/CAF member sitting on a table during a presentation.

Narrator: As members of the Defence Team, you make decisions and take actions that affect your team, unit, stakeholders, and your military career every day.

(video displays) The logo of GBA Plus Gender-Based Analysis Plus decorated with red maple leaves appears to the left. At its right, the five GBA Plus approach steps are listed inside interlocking circles arranged as a pentagon with the following text on the screen:

Step 1. Identify the issue,
Step 2. Identify people & their needs,
Step 3. Identify differences and inequalities,
Step 4. Develop options,
Step 5. Implement, monitor & evaluate.

Narrator: Using Gender-based Analysis Plus or GBA Plus is a key step to ensure that...

(video displays) An illustration of the world appears, with clouds around its top with a superimposed logo of GBA Plus Gender-Based Analysis Plus. drawing of a group of people of different genders, ages, and races is shown at the bottom of the world, alongside two illustrations showing more people to the left and right of the world. The text “actions” and “decisions” appear at the top.

Narrator: ...your actions and decisions work for everyone.

Step 1. Identify the issue,
Step 2. Identify people & their needs,
Step 3. Identify differences and inequalities,
Step 4. Develop options,
Step 5. Implement, monitor & evaluate.

Narrator: GBA Plus is a tool...

(video displays) The same illustration of the world appears, with clouds around its top, a drawing of a group of people of different genders, ages, and races and two illustrations showing more people to the left and right of the world. The illustration is transparent, with the wheel of social identity factors superimposed in the center of the screen. The wheel 12-pointed asterisk with the words “social identity factors” at its centre, the words, “age, location, race & ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, rank, unit, occupation, immigration & citizenship, socio-economic status, gender, family status” in its spokes. The text “social identity factors” appears shortly after in the center of the screen.

Narrator: ...to help understand how different parts of people’s identities, known as “social identity factors”, interact with each other...

(video displays) The illustrations and the wheel of social identity factors move to the left of the screen. To the right, in blue rectangles, the words “society”, “systems” and “institutions” appear in quick succession, becoming grey as each word is said by the narrator.

Narrator: ...with society, with systems and institutions.

(video displays) An illustration of four circles, one within the other, at the centre of the screen appears, surrounded by colourful circles with illustrated portraits of diverse people within them, connected with a blue dotted line. Around that, the phrases “access to positive outcomes”, “advantages”, “circumstances”, “disadvantages”, and “lack of access to positive outcomes” are shown.

Narrator: These interactions produce people’s unique circumstances, which include advantages and disadvantages, as well as access to (or lack of access to) positive or desired outcomes.

(video displays) The logo of GBA Plus Gender-Based Analysis Plus decorated with red maple leaves appears to the left. At its right, the phrase “intersectional analysis” appears.

Narrator: GBA Plus is also known as “intersectional analysis”.

(video displays) The logo of GBA Plus Gender-Based Analysis Plus appears to the left, within a grey circle. At the bottom, the five GBA Plus approach steps are listed inside interlocking circles arranged as a pentagon with the following text on the screen:

Step 1. Identify the issue,
Step 2. Identify people & their needs,
Step 3. Identify differences and inequalities,
Step 4. Develop options,
Step 5. Implement, monitor & evaluate.

To the right, the text “improve collection of information” appears, being replaced in quick succession by “help engage with people of all backgrounds”, “help inform better decisions”, and “support operational effectiveness”.

Narrator: GBA Plus can be used to improve collection of information, help engage with people of all backgrounds, and help inform better decisions to support operational effectiveness.

[Section 2. Example: Peanut Allergy]

(video displays) An illustration of peanuts within a red no symbol appears. To the right, the text “peanut allergy” is shown in a blue rectangle.

Narrator: For example, imagine that you have a severe allergy to peanuts.

(video displays) A stylized photograph of a DND/CAF member cutting vegetables in a kitchen is shown. The logo of GBA Plus Gender-Based Analysis Plus with the five GBA Plus approach steps appear to the right.

Narrator: Applying GBA Plus to planning meals and in picking ingredients would ensure that your individual health and safety needs are met.

(video displays) The same stylized photograph of a DND/CAF member cutting vegetables in a kitchen is shown. The logo of GBA Plus Gender-Based Analysis Plus with the five GBA Plus approach steps move to the top center of the screen. The text “food selection” appears in the right, quickly replaced by “food preparation.” It is then replaced by the words “health”, “cultural”, “religious”, and “needs” in grey boxes, with each text box becoming blue as it is said by the narrator,

Narrator: At the same time, using a GBA Plus lens to food selection and food preparation can also ensure that the options available are respectful of people’s health, cultural, and religious needs.

[Section 3. DND/CAF GBA Plus Toolkit]

(video displays) The title “GBA DND/CAF GBA Plus Toolkit for Junior Officers and Non-Commissioned Leaders” appears over a white background, on top of a photo of the “Quick Reference: Steps to doing GBA Plus”, with a cursor pointing at it. On the left, a graphic depicting a large circle with three circles of smaller size each is shown. The first and smallest circle says “1. Social Identity Factors”. In quick succession, the second circle text appears “2. Group membership (including social norms)”, followed by the third circle text “3. Institutional Power (including policies and practices)”, finishing with the fourth and largest circle text “4. Systems of Power (including prejudice and discrimination)”. This fades away and is replaced by a photo of the DND/CAF GBA Plus Quick Guide, with a cursor pointing at it.

Narrator: The toolkit includes various tools on how to apply GBA Plus such as the Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) GBA Plus Quick Reference: Steps to doing GBA Plus or the DND/CAF GBA Plus Quick Guide.

(video displays) The title “GBA Plus Steps” appears at the top in a blue rectangle. In the center of the screen, the five GBA Plus approach steps are listed inside interlocking circles arranged as a pentagon with the following text on the screen:

Step 1. Identify the issue,
Step 2. Identify people & their needs,
Step 3. Identify differences and inequalities,
Step 4. Develop options,
Step 5. Implement, monitor & evaluate.

Surrounding the steps, an arrow with the words “Documentation”, “Data & Information”, “Communication” and “Bias Awareness” is shown.

Narrator: Regardless of the tools you use, GBA Plus has five key steps:

(video displays) The title “GBA Plus Steps” appears at the top in a blue rectangle. The five GBA Plus approach steps move to the left. To the right, a circle with the text “Step 1. Identify the issue” appears. In quick succession, it changes to “Step 2. Identify people and their needs”, “Step 3. Identify differences and inequalities”, “Step 4. Develop options” and “Step 5. Implement, monitor & evaluate”, changing as the narrator lists each one.

Narrator:

Step 1. Identify the issue,
Step 2. Identify people and their needs,
Step 3. Identify differences and inequalities,
Step 4. Develop options, and
Step 5. Implement, monitor & evaluate.

[Section 6. Learning Application]

(video displays) A stylized photograph of DND/CAF members in uniform sitting in a classroom with the text “learning application” is shown. The five GBA Plus approach steps from before appears in the top left corner.

Narrator: GBA Plus is a tool that can help us to be more aware of how social identity factors impact the needs of and inequalities experienced by people and communities, so that we can make decisions and take actions that address these needs and inequalities. Explore the materials included in the GBA Plus toolkit.

(video displays) The stylized photograph of the embroidered Canadian flag of a DND/CAF member uniform with the text “Thank You” is shown.

Narrator: By watching and engaging with the materials in this toolkit, you are joining a broader movement for positive culture change through the application of GBA Plus.
Thank you!

(video displays) The stylized photograph fades away and is replaced by the text “What is GBA Plus?” DND/CAF GBA Plus Toolkit for Junior Officers & Non-Commissioned Leaders.

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Date modified:: 2024-11-21

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