Women and Girls Initiative Gender Impact Assessment Program
2023 NACo Achievement Award Winner
Los Angeles County, Calif., CA
About the Program
Category: Personnel Management, Employment and Training
Year: 2023
The Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) is a methodology within the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Women and Girl's Initiative (WGI), that helps the County of Los Angeles (County) improve its understanding of people's different needs, experiences and opportunities, which vary based on gender, race/ethnicity, age and other social-demographic variables. The GIA is a tool the County uses to question the assumption that policies, programs and services affect or benefit everyone in the same way. The GIA helps the County to estimate the effects, positive, negative or neutral of a policy, program or service, on different groups.