Gender Analysis

The relationship between gender, poverty and development is very crucial as not only does poverty impact differently on women and men but they also experience poverty differently. Understanding these differences is crucial in fighting poverty, and requires analysis of how gender discrimination contributes to poverty and acts as an obstacle to poverty reduction. It is important to understand the synergies between gender and poverty and the following section presented in tabular form seeks to underscore the link between poverty and the core development challenges facing the district.