This tool provides guidance to project designers and proposal writers on how to meaningfully include gender equality during the design phase of a project. For more information on gender in project design and gender analysis, see Switchboard’s Gender Equality in Service Programs Continuum; Information Guide: Improving Gender Equality through Basic Gender Analysis; Gender Analysis Project Risk Matrix; and Gender Analysis Workplan Template. This checklist includes questions around program planning, program design, partnerships, monitoring & evaluation, and budgets.