Inclusion Insight Lens

What is Inclusion Insight Lens?

Inclusion Insight Lens is Edit Right Advisors’ gender equality, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) analysis model. Programs can reach many people and still miss those most often left out. Funders such as DFAT and FCDO expect a GEDSI analysis that shows who benefits, who does not, and why. Left unsolved, the design misses people it should serve and the proposal loses ground on inclusion. Inclusion Insight Lens shows who a program reaches and who it misses, and turns that into practical choices for design, delivery, and reporting.

How does Inclusion Insight Lens work?

Power and decision making sits above the lens and shapes every domain. The five domains form the lens, and the context and identity factors apply across all of them. We hear directly and safely from excluded groups, with consent processes suited to the people involved.

• Power and decision making: Who decides, at home, in the community, and in institutions
• Access to assets: Who has access to and control over resources, services, and opportunities
• Practices and participation: Who takes part in activities and decisions, and how
• Roles, responsibilities, and time use: Who does what work, and how time is divided
• Beliefs and perceptions: The norms and beliefs that shape what people can do
• Institutions, laws, and policies: The formal and informal rules that include or exclude people

Context and identity factors: gender, age, disability, ethnicity and culture, economic status, and location.

Who it is for

• NGOs and community-based and similar organizations: see who is reached and who is missed.
• Funders: receive GEDSI analysis that meets their requirements.
• Government: see how laws, policies, and institutions include or exclude people.
• Researchers: get a structured GEDSI analysis across five domains and six identity factors.

Recognized practice behind Inclusion Insight Lens

• Gender analysis domains. All five domains (access to assets; practices and participation; roles, responsibilities, and time use; beliefs and perceptions; and institutions, laws, and policies) are adapted from the USAID ADS 205 gender analysis domains, via Jhpiego. Power and decision making runs across all five.
• GEDSI analysis. The model follows the GEDSI analysis approach in DFAT and FCDO guidance, including DFAT’s GEDSI analysis good practice note.
• Identity factors and disaggregation. Disability data can use the Washington Group Short Set on Functioning where appropriate.

Inclusion Insight Lens is adapted from the USAID ADS 205 gender analysis domains, via Jhpiego. Sources: Jhpiego Gender Analysis Framework; DFAT GEDSI analysis good practice note (archived copy); Washington Group Short Set on Functioning.

Edit Right models are our own structured adaptations of established practice. Naming a benchmark, author, or institution does not imply accreditation, membership, or endorsement.

Frequently asked questions

Key terms

• Equity and inclusion analysis: Analysis of who benefits from a program, who does not, and why.
• GEDSI: Gender equality, disability, and social inclusion.
• Context and identity factors: Gender, age, disability, ethnicity and culture, economic status, and location.
• Washington Group Short Set: A standard set of questions for disability data.