Synopses & Reviews
* Shows how to incorporate gender analysis into planning and evaluation* Examples drawn form South Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan AfricaMany practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women matter in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women 's needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier gender-blind efforts that simply ignored women 's specific concerns.Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on issues such as mainstreaming versus specialization, methodologies for incorporating gender analysis into planning and evaluation, the limitations of gender training, the unintended impacts of women-focused credit programs, and how institutional policies to promote gender equity are often tacitly undermined by patriarchal interests.
Synopsis
These papers taken from the journal Development in Practice cover topics as diverse as mainstreaming versus specialization, methodologies for introducing gender analysis into planning and evaluation, limitations of gender training and how institutional policies to promote gender enquiry can be tacitly undermined by patriarchal interests.
Synopsis
Development practitioners and development thinkers and academics have tried to make women matter in development. However, women-focused approaches have often addressed women's needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live and have been as damaging to women's interests as earlier gender-blind efforts that ignored women's specific concerns altogether. These papers taken from the journal Development in Practice cover topics as diverse as mainstreaming versus specialization, methodologies for introducing gender analysis into planning and evaluation, limitations of gender training and how institutional policies to promote gender enquiry can be tacitly undermined by patriarchal interests. This book is one of a series which sets out to promote debate on themes of current concern in development.