Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development
Published on 1. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-85649-526-4 (ISBN)
Description
Gender and Development or Women in Development policies have been promoted in development organizations for almost three decades now. Although they have helped improve the immediate material condition of women, by and large such policies have involved organizations in reproducing the ideological and material conditions for women's subordination in the family and the economy.
This book offers a gendered analysis of development organizations in a range of different institutional arenas. It builds a conceptual framework for exploring the politics and procedures internal to the institutions which design and implement policy, and then applies this to the analysis of empirical case study material. Other contributions reflect on strategies to help organizations internalise or institutionalise gender equity; to make accountability to women a routine part of development practice.
This book offers a gendered analysis of development organizations in a range of different institutional arenas. It builds a conceptual framework for exploring the politics and procedures internal to the institutions which design and implement policy, and then applies this to the analysis of empirical case study material. Other contributions reflect on strategies to help organizations internalise or institutionalise gender equity; to make accountability to women a routine part of development practice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85649-526-4 (9781856495264)
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Anne Marie Goetz
Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development
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12/1997
Zed Books Ltd
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Anne Marie Goetz is a political scientist and a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Her books include Women Development Workers: Implementing Credit Programmes in Bangladesh (2001) and Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development (Zed, 1997).
Content
Part I: Accountability to Women: Theoretical Perspectives
1. Getting Representation Right for Women in Development - Katherine Fierlbeck
2. Making Development Organizations Accountable - Nuket Kardam
3. Fish, Feminists and the FAO: Translating Gender Through Different Institutions in the Development Process - Elizabeth Harrison
Part II: Institutionalizing Gender Equity in State Bureaucracies
4. Mainstreaming Gender Concerns - Virginia O. del Rosario
5. Women's Movements, the State and Democratization in Chile: The Establishment of SERNAM - Georgina Waylen
6. Gender and Representation: Women MPs in the Indian Parliament (1991-1996) - Shirin M. Rai
Part III: Institutionalizing Gender Equity in NGOs
7. Engendering Organizational Change: The BRAC Case - Aruno Rao and David Kelleher
8. What's in a Design? The Effects of NGO Programme Delivery Choices on Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh - Brooke Ackerly
Part IV: The Role of Individual Agents
9. Actor Orientation and Gender Relations at a Participatory Project Interface - Cecile Jackson
10. Local Heroes: Patterns of Field Worker Discretion in Implementing GAD Policy in Bangladesh - Anne Marie Goetz
Part V: Women Organizing for Themselves
11. What is Different about Women's Organizations? - Tahera Yasmin
12. Women Organizing Women: 'Doing it Backwards and in High Heels' - Sheelagh Stewart and Jill Taylor
1. Getting Representation Right for Women in Development - Katherine Fierlbeck
2. Making Development Organizations Accountable - Nuket Kardam
3. Fish, Feminists and the FAO: Translating Gender Through Different Institutions in the Development Process - Elizabeth Harrison
Part II: Institutionalizing Gender Equity in State Bureaucracies
4. Mainstreaming Gender Concerns - Virginia O. del Rosario
5. Women's Movements, the State and Democratization in Chile: The Establishment of SERNAM - Georgina Waylen
6. Gender and Representation: Women MPs in the Indian Parliament (1991-1996) - Shirin M. Rai
Part III: Institutionalizing Gender Equity in NGOs
7. Engendering Organizational Change: The BRAC Case - Aruno Rao and David Kelleher
8. What's in a Design? The Effects of NGO Programme Delivery Choices on Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh - Brooke Ackerly
Part IV: The Role of Individual Agents
9. Actor Orientation and Gender Relations at a Participatory Project Interface - Cecile Jackson
10. Local Heroes: Patterns of Field Worker Discretion in Implementing GAD Policy in Bangladesh - Anne Marie Goetz
Part V: Women Organizing for Themselves
11. What is Different about Women's Organizations? - Tahera Yasmin
12. Women Organizing Women: 'Doing it Backwards and in High Heels' - Sheelagh Stewart and Jill Taylor