This Belize CGA is an update of the 2011 assessment commissioned by CDB, which has been prepared based on public policy documents, available statistics, and interviews and focus group discussions with technical experts in Belize, to assist in the planning, development and implementation of gender-responsive interventions to promote poverty reduction and economic growth. 

This CGA explores traditional systems and structures rooted in patriarchy and male dominance, as the core of persisting gender inequalities in Belize, which limit the capacity to promote a transformative gender equality agenda in the country. These patriarchal notions of social organisation systematise and institutionalise a gender hierarchy with various manifestations that cut across race, ethnicity, culture and age.