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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.
Targeting women on transforming institutions? Policy lessons from NGO anti-poverty efforts, Naila Kabeer; Soup kitchens, women and social policy: studies from Peru, Luiba Kogan; dealing with hidden issues: trafficked women in Nepal, Meena Poudel and Anita Shrestha; the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network, Hope Chigudu; participatory development: an approach sensitive to class and gender, Dan Connell; women in the informal sector: the contribution of education and training, Fiona Leach; the evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot, Sara Hlupelike Longwe.
