The IASC Gender with Age Marker

Welcome to the IASC Gender with Age Marker (GAM)

The GAM was designed in response to requests from the field, as a tool that would help them understand how to do better gender equality programming. By applying the GAM, you can help ensure that your organization and your country response plan are on track and delivering assistance effectively to women, girls, boys and men of all ages and in all their diversity.

The GAM, a quantitative source of global data on gender and age, offers 10 programmatic actions to improve attention to gender and age in projects and programs.

It is the process of discussing and answering the GAM questions that creates better projects. Ideally, the GAM is used as a team planning or monitoring exercise. The GAM provides topics and questions for project teams to discuss, reflect on, and decide if there are ways they can improve the project. It can be completed by a single monitoring officer, but users report it is most beneficial when project teams work together to complete the exercise.

Noone is applying the GAM to your project, but rather you decide if you are happy with how gender and age concerns are reflected in your project. The GAM is not used to judge projects, or to decide whether they should be selected or funded. It merely guides a reflective learning process. It is called a “Marker” because at the end of filling in the questionnaire, you will receive a code. This code does not reflect the quality of your proposal or monitoring report.

Ensure effective assistance

Results from the GAM speak directly to Commitments from the Agenda for Humanity, including gender-responsive planning and programming; integration of SGBV prevention and response in humanitarian action; meaningful and effective engagement of affected people especially women and girls; improving transparency and accountability throughout the humanitarian program cycle.

Apply the GAM to ensure your organization and your country response plan are on track and delivering assistance effectively to women, girls, boys and men of all ages.

How to use the marker

Design: We recommend using the GAM during the design of your programme, to enable effectively planned programmes that consider age and gender throughout.

Monitoring: If your program or project been underway for three months or more, it’s time to use the GAM for monitoring.

Please remember to use Chrome or Firefox to open the GAM – it does not work in Internet Explorer.

Access the marker

ONLY for users accessing the GAM through OCHA’s HPC Projects Module:

Please note you are not (yet) able to get a Report of the GAM information you enter. This is because the report function of the new questionnaire is still being developed. When you try to retrieve your report on the GAM home page, you will get the message, “The given PGRN was not found.”

IMPORTANT: When using the OCHA GAM link, be sure to SAVE a PDF version of your results before pressing “SUBMIT”.” Click on the printer icon at the top of the form, and for “Destination” choose “Save as PDF.” Then be sure to click ‘submit’, otherwise your answers will not be saved!

ALL OTHER USERS: Please access the marker here.

Access the GAM offline

Use Chrome or Firefox to open the GAM.

Open the GAM here and BOOKMARK it, where it will be saved in your browser memory (i.e. chrome, internet explorer, etc.). We suggest to bookmark it in all the browsers you use.

You can then travel and open the GAM offline, anywhere. It will remain fully functional in your browser and can be used repeatedly.

When you are offline, you will see two little boxes appearing in the upper left corner of the GAM page. Those boxes do not appear when you’re online. One is an orange square that tells you you’re using it offline. The other is a white square with a number in it (0, 1, 2, etc) that tells you the number of forms you have saved, waiting to upload.

Your completed forms will be saved and uploaded automatically the next time you go online.

Access Your GAM Report

To get a report of the information you entered, click here and enter your GAM reference number. It will provide a report on your previous submission – useful to guide you in monitoring! If you have forgotten your GAM reference number, please email with your name, organization and location to iasc-gam@un.org

Codes

Unlike other gender markers, this code does NOT reflect how well you have addressed gender differences in you program. It only reflects how consistently you have selected the intended genders, ages and people with disabilities. If you get a Code 2, 1, or 0, you may want to go back and check that your activities will reach the groups intended.