GOOTCHA—A framework to build gender-sensitive ID systems

by Arshi Aadil, Saloni Tandon, Sonal Jaitly, Sneha Sampath, Venkat Goli and Akhand Tiwari
Mar 12, 2021
1 min

The World Bank estimates that around a billion people across the globe lack a “legal identity.” The gender gap in terms of people’s access to official IDs is considerable in low-income countries, where one in two women lack any form of official ID. This limits financial, social, and political participation for women.

We propose the GOOTCHA framework, which helps design gender-sensitive ID systems to help strengthen women’s agency. The framework draws on MSC’s extensive experience of working on gender-centrality projects across Asia and Africa. We presented the framework at the live summit hosted by ID4Africa on the 10th of March, 2021. You can download the presentation here and watch the recording of the event here