Table 1.

World Health Organization's Gender Responsive Assessment Scale: Criteria for Assessing Programs and Policies

Levels	Description
Level 1: Gender-unequal	• Perpetuates gender inequality by reinforcing unbalanced norms, roles, and relations, and privileging men over women (or vice versa)
Level 2: Gender-blind	• Ignores gender norms, roles, and relations, and differences in opportunities and resource allocation for women and men
Level 3: Gender-sensitive	• Does not address inequality generated by unequal norms, roles or relations, and indicates gender awareness, although often no remedial action is developed
Level 4: Gender-specific	• Considers women's and men's specific needs by intentionally targeting and benefiting a specific group of women or men to achieve certain policy or program goals or meet certain needs
Level 5: Gender-transformative	• Addresses the causes of gender-based health inequities and includes strategies to foster progressive changes in power relationships between women and men