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Gender mainstreaming as an
approach came out of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women held in
In this issue, gender and development policymakers, practitioners, and feminist
activists debate the progress of gender mainstreaming in development institutions
and the state. The articles here come out of the Beyond Gender Mainstreaming
Learning Project convened during 2011 and 2012 by Gender & Development and
the UK Gender and Development Network - a network of UK-based international
NGOs - which involved around 200 women and men from the global South and North.
Image: The Plenary Hall during the UN Fourth World Conference on Women,
Credit: UN/DP 051331/Zhang Yan Hui
The links below will take you to
the abstract on the Oxfam Policy & Practice website where you can download
the article for free.
Introduction: Beyond gender mainstreaming
Caroline Sweetman
Gender mainstreaming: recognising and building on
progress. Views from the UK Gender and Development Network
Helen Derbyshire
'It's just been such a horrible experience.' Perceptions
of gender mainstreaming by practitioners in South African organisations
Jenevieve Mannell
Mainstreaming women's safety in cities into gender-based
policy and programmes
Caroline Moser
Looking through an equity and inclusion lens in Tanzania:
the experience of WaterAid
Joyce Ndesamburo, Erin Flynn and Samantha French
The micro-politics of gender mainstreaming: the
administration of policy in humanitarian work in Cambodia
Franz Wong
From the bottom up: lessons about gender mainstreaming in
the Andes from Digni's Women Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEGE) programme
Heidi Holt Zachariassen
Substantive Gender Mainstreaming and the missing middle:
a view from Dutch Development agencies
Anouka van Eerdewijk and Ireen Dubel
'...the donor community, they are not sensitised about
these kind of gender things': incorporating 'gender' into the work of a
Ghanaian NGO
Hannah Warren
Fixing women or fixing the world? 'Smart economics',
efficiency approaches and gender equality in development
Sylvia Chant and Caroline Sweetman
'Measuring the unmeasurable': gender mainstreaming and
cultural change
Jeanette Kloosterman, Esther Benning and Rex Fyles
The elephant in the room and the dragons at the gate:
strategising for gender equality in the 21st century
Joanne Sandler and Aruna Rao
Intersectional mainstreaming and Sightsavers' Lady Health
Workers Programme in Pakistan
Clara Fischer
Mainstreaming from Beijing to Ghana - the role of the
women's movement in Ghana
Diana Højlund Madsen
Better than the sum of our parts? Reflections on gender
mainstreaming in a confederation
Shawna Wakefield
Beyond Gender Mainstreaming Resources List
Compiled by Liz Cooke
Views, events, and debates
Edited by Liz Cooke
Edited by Liz
Cooke
Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities
reviewed by Dean Peacock, Angelica Pino and Mark Weston
Harvesting Feminist Knowledge for Public Policy:
Rebuilding Progress
reviewed by Kristine Goulding
The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy
reviewed by Deborah Eade
Transformative Policy for Poor Women: A New Feminist
Framework
reviewed by Naomi Hossain
The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class
Matter in an American Disaster
reviewed by Sarah Bradshaw
July: Post-disaster humanitarian work
March: Business and Enterprise