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Ecd 427: Gender, Environment And Community Development Question Paper

Ecd 427: Gender, Environment And Community Development

Course:Environmental Studies And Community Development

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2015

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION 2014/2015
SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT)
ECD 427: GENDER, ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

DATE: Thursday, 2nd April, 2015 TIME: 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS
Answer Question ONE and any other TWO.
Question one
Write short notes on the following concepts:
Gender relations (2marks)
Gender roles (2marks)
Gender and development (2 marks)
Assume you have been hired as a project officer by an organization that is involved in community development work in your home area. The organization has tasked you with the responsibility of planning and implementation of its projects that are aimed at improving the livelihoods of the local community. Using any project of your choice discuss how you would use Harvard Analytical Framework to conduct gender analysis before implementing the project. (14 marks)
Explain how the project will benefit from gender analysis (10 marks)
Question two
Highlight the key gender issues in natural resource management and explain their impacts on the environment. (15 marks)
Suggest any five measures that Natural Resource Management programmes can adopt to facilitate effective involvement of men and women (5 marks)
Question three
Discuss why gender perspectives should be included at each point of policy formulation and analysis (12 marks)
Briefly highlight any four approaches that can be used to mainstream gender in agricultural sector. (8 marks)
Question four
Gender equality is perhaps the single most important factor in achieving some of the millennium development goals. Discus this statement in reference to MDG 1 and MDG 7(10 marks)
Point out the key gender inequalities in the following sectors in Kenya
Education (5 marks)
Financial sector (5 marks)
Question five
Discuss the role of the constitution in alleviating marginalization of women in Kenya (20 marks)

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