DEVELOPMENT WITH WOMEN

Book Details

• Author: Dorienne Rowan-Campbell

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: 2006

• ISBN: 8170339480

• Pages: 208

• Cover: Hardcover

• Sale Territory: India

About the Book

Many practitioners and thinkers have sought to make women "matter" in development, but women-focused approaches often attempt to address their needs outside the broader social contexts in which they live. As a result, these approaches have sometimes been more damaging than earlier "gender-blind" efforts, which simply ignored women's specific concerns.

Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces a collection of papers that critically examine key issues in gender and development, including "mainstreaming" versus specialization, methodologies for incorporating gender analysis into planning and evaluation, the limitations of gender training, the unintended consequences of women-focused credit programs, and the ways institutional policies to promote gender equity are often undermined by patriarchal interests. The papers presented in this volume are drawn from diverse regions including South Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, providing valuable insights into the global struggle for gender equality in development.

About the Author

Dorienne Rowan-Campbell is an independent development consultant based in Jamaica. She specializes in gender and development and has contributed significantly to the discourse on how to effectively integrate gender analysis into development policies and practices.