Gender equity · Facilitation · Policy tools · Evaluation
Gender impact analysis: turning guidance into practice
Testing a practical approach to gender impact analysis and helping staff examine who can access, participate in and benefit from Council services.
Documented outputs
A pilot Gender Impact Analysis tool, a facilitated workshop, participant feedback and an evaluation report with implementation recommendations.
Read the contribution and sources below for Alisha’s role in this work.
Project context
- Organisation
- Maribyrnong City Council
- Context
- Local government inclusion practice
- Practice
- Gender equity · Facilitation · Policy tools · Evaluation
The challenge
The task was to explore how gender impact analysis guidance could be applied to everyday policy and programme decisions, considering gender, access and participation.
Alisha’s contribution
Within her Maribyrnong Council role, Alisha researched, designed and piloted a Gender Impact Analysis tool and template, and facilitated a 90-minute workshop with internal and external participants. Discussion applied the guidance to a Council service and considered opportunities for women and gender-diverse people. These were resources developed for Council work.
From discussion to organisational learning
She collated participant feedback and prepared an evaluation report with recommendations for training and implementation support. Local implementation evidence was reported back to state government to inform guidance development.
Including gender diversity in implementation
Alisha attended meetings, including with the Office for Women, and contributed advice on the rollout of gender impact assessments and how to carry them out in practice. In these discussions, she emphasised the importance of including gender diversity when considering gender equity, rather than limiting the discussion to women. This meant recognising the experiences of trans, non-binary and other gender-diverse people alongside the inequalities experienced by women.
An intersectional approach
Gender analysis asks how a policy may affect people differently. Alisha connects this with language access, disability access, cultural context and lived experience, so participation and service design respond to overlapping barriers.
Official information and sources
Public sources provide programme, policy and research background. The contribution described above is Alisha’s account of her experience; these links do not independently verify every personal contribution or imply organisational endorsement.
Contribution, evidence and limits
This account describes Alisha’s contribution in the project context identified above. Read the role credits and source links alongside the account. Prior Council employment and partner-led work inform Soft Infrastructure’s practice; they are not presented as new consulting commissions. Outputs and activities are described where documented. No additional measured outcomes or causal impact are inferred.