Getting institutions right for women in development / edited by Anne Marie Goetz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goetz, Anne Marie, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in development.

Women--Political activity.

Women.

Women--Government policy.

Organizational change.

Organizational behavior.

Communication in organizations.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books, 1997.

Summary:

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 conditions 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 internalize or institutionalize gender equity and to make accountability to women a routine part of development practice.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development / Anne Marie Goetz 1

Part I Accountability to Women: Theoretical Perspectives

2 Getting Representation Right for Women in Development: Accountability, Consent and the Articulation of Women's Interests / Katherine Fierlbeck 31

3 Making Development Organizations Accountable: The Organizational, Political and Cognitive Contexts / Nuket Kardam 44

4 Fish, Feminists and the FAO: Translating 'Gender' through Different Institutions in the Development Process / Elizabeth Harrison 61

Part II Institutionalizing Gender Equity in State Bureaucracies

5 Mainstreaming Gender Concerns: Aspects of Compliance, Resistance and Negotiation / Virginia O. del Rosario 77

6 Women's Movements, the State and Democratization in Chile: The Establishment of SERNAM / Georgina Waylen 90

7 Gender and Representation: Women MPs in the Indian Parliament, 1991-96 / Shirin M. Rai 104

Part III Institutionalizing Gender Equity in NGOs

8 Engendering Organizational Change: The BRAC Case / Aruna Rao, David Kelleher 123

9 What's in a Design? The Effects of NGO Programme Delivery Choices on Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh / Brooke Ackerly 140

Part IV The Role of Individual Agents

10 Actor Orientation and Gender Relations at a Participatory Project Interface / Cecile Jackson 161

11 Local Heroes: Patterns of Fieldworker Discretion in Implementing GAD Policy in Bangladesh / Anne Marie Goetz 176

Part V Women Organizing for Themselves

12 What is Different about Women's Organizations? / Tahera Yasmin 199

13 Women Organizing Women: 'Doing it Backwards and in High Heels' / Sheelagh Stewart, Jill Taylor 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-234) and index.

ISBN:

1856495256

1856495264

OCLC:

37261062