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Gender-based Analysis Plus Quick Guide

The Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces (DND/CAF) has developed a Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) Quick Guide, as a job aid when conducting GBA Plus, that plots 12 key questions into 4 quadrants.

The Guide includes intersectionality considerations and references the 5 steps of doing GBA Plus.

Identify the issue or problem

Quadrants I and II include questions to help identify and define an issue or problem, and who is affected. These quadrants correlate with steps 1 to 3 in the GBA Plus process.

Quadrant I: Define the problem

  1. What is the problem I am trying to solve with the initiative being developed?
  2. Who has defined the problem or issue?
  3. Are there other ways the issue might be understood or experienced?

Quadrant II: Identify people, needs and inequalities

  1. What are the relevant social identity factors of populations affected?
  2. What inequalities many exist based on how social identity factors intersect with power dynamics on group membership, institutions and systems of power?
  3. What is included in the research and how does it include consulting with people and individuals with lived experiences associated with the issue?

Identify a solution or options

Quadrants III and IV include questions to develop and implement solutions or options and then evaluate the effect. These quadrants correlate with steps 4 and 5 of the GBA Plus process.

Quadrant III: Develop options

  1. What options can be explored to address the specific needs of affected populations?
  2. How can the responses be tailored to meet the expressed needs of members, that are associated with identified relevant social identity factors?
  3. What solutions can be explored to reduce or eliminate the inequalities identified in the analysis?

Quadrant IV: Implement, monitor and evaluate

  1. Are the actions from the analysis addressing the issue identified, including the specific needs of affected populations?
  2. How can people and communities with various social identity factors access, experience, and benefit from the initiative, and have they been engaged with throughout the process?
  3. In what ways is the initiative contributing towards operational effectiveness and/or culture change?

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