[3] An example of the effect of skipping gender analysis is provided by a project that introduced handcarts to a village for use in collecting firewood.
[7] The starting point for the framework was the assumption that it makes economic sense for development aid projects to allocate resources to women as well as men, which will make development more efficient – a position named the “efficiency approach".
The Moser Framework includes gender roles identification, gender needs assessment, disaggregating control of resources and decision making within the household, planning for balancing the triple role, distinguishing between different aims in interventions and involving women and gender-aware organizations in planning.
Participatory planning is a basic theme of the framework, which is flexible enough to handle situations where data collection is severely handicapped.
The CVA is based on an analysis of 30 case studies of NGOs responding to disaster situations, and is designed to help in emergency aid planning to meet immediate needs while considering longer-term development needs.
[13] The basic premise is that women's development can be viewed in terms of five levels of equality: welfare, access, "conscientization", participation and control.
[14] The Social Relations Approach applies a socialist feminist philosophy to gender analysis, and has been used by various government department and NGOs as a planning framework.
Unlike the Harvard Framework and the Gender Analysis Matrix, it does not focus on roles, resources and activities, but instead looks at the relations between the State, market, community and family.