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Gender Works
Covers the challenges of implementing Oxfam's innovative gender policy: of promoting gender-aware development and emergency work; of influencing organisational culture and of working with the international women's movement to promote gender equality.
Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women's Lives
This book explores how international NGOs are navigating these rapid changes, changes that challenge their role and legitimacy, their values, and their overall purpose. It calls for a re-examination of theories about change, and a re-focus on ideas of complexity and feminism and on learning from past NGO experience.
Mainstreaming Gender in Development
Articles discuss how gender mainstreaming has been understood in different organisations; provide examples of good work, which supports the empowerment of women; and look beyond gender mainstreaming to what new possibilities exist for transformation.
Gender Training for Development Policy Implementers
This paper takes a critical look at gender training, drawing on the experience of five different international development organizations, suggesting that training is only one element of the varied strategy needed for organizations to become gender-sensitive. It arises from research sponsored by the UK government Department for International Development.
Gender Works
A text on integrating gender issues into development institutions. It charts the experiences of Oxfam in turning words into action on gender issues; and gives a critical analysis of failures as well as successes in intergrating gender into the work and structures of development organizations.
Mainstreaming Men Into Gender and Development
Based on research commissioned by the World Bank, this books primary focus is on incorporating men in gender and development interventions at the grass roots level. It draws attention to some of the key problems that have arisen from male exclusion; as well as to the potential benefits of - and obstacles to - men's inclusion.
Gender, Education, and Training
A collection of articles by development workers and researchers focusing on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training. Women make up an estimated two thirds of the world's illiterate people, the contributors to this book reflect on the causes and consequences of this.
Feminist Strategies in International Governance
The contributors to this volume provide a survey of the existing gender machineries on the international level, explore the way in which feminist movements have approached international organizations and the way IOs have responded, and examine the laws and norms that have been produced and their effects in local contexts globally.
Handbook on Development and Social Change
This Handbook provides an accessible critical review of the complex issues surrounding development and social change today. With chapters from recognized experts, examining economic, political and social aspects, and covering key topics and developing regions, it goes beyond current theory and sets out the debates which will shape an approach better suited to the modern world.
Senegal
Up-to-date view of Senegal from the perspective of the poor
