Rethinking Gender in Development Practice
eBook - ePub

Rethinking Gender in Development Practice

Lessons from the Field

  1. 166 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rethinking Gender in Development Practice

Lessons from the Field

About this book

Rethinking Gender in Development Practice is about the ways in which issues of gender—including violence against women and girls, entrenched gender roles and expectations, the exclusion of non-binary genders, and the participation of disempowered genders—affect and are affected by development practice.

This volume, which pulls together papers from Development in Practice, provides accounts from researchers and practitioners working with women in countries from Africa to the Pacific. The book offers a global perspective, but with the inclusion of local voices, on the way gender can impact daily living in the Global South. This book includes groundbreaking articles by some of development studies' most well-known scholars, which are interspersed with more recent publications that address urgent issues of gender in development practice.

Targeted at development practitioners and academics from across the world, this book reveals the plight of those from the Global South who do not identify as men, and offers examples of how NGOs, targeted programs, enhanced participation in decision-making processes, and the interrogation of established discourse on gender can assist in transforming lives.

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Yes, you can access Rethinking Gender in Development Practice by Emily Finlay,Patrick Kilby,Rochelle Spencer,Joyce Wu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Peace & Global Development. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Is development work still so straight? Heteronormativity in the development sector over a decade on
  10. 2 Buzzwords and fuzzwords: deconstructing development discourse
  11. 3 Taking the power out of empowerment – an experiential account
  12. 4 Seeing empowerment as relational: lessons from women participating in development projects in Cambodia
  13. 5 Targeting women or transforming institutions? Policy lessons from NGO anti-poverty efforts
  14. 6 Defining women’s empowerment in women and girl safe spaces: a call for collective self-determination
  15. 7 From complexity to simplicity – how chasing success stories affects gendered NGO practices
  16. 8 Research uptake, lessons from a multi-country global program: What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
  17. 9 A study on capacity development in the “What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women” program
  18. 10 The gendered impact of COVID-19 on FGM
  19. 11 Shifting gender roles: an analysis of violence against women in post-conflict Uganda
  20. 12 Exploring the use of film to stimulate dialogue on the issues of gender inequality in Samoa
  21. Index