Gender works : Oxfam experience in policy and practice /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Oxfam
Otros Autores: Porter, Fenella (Editor ), Smyth, Ines A. (Editor ), Sweetman, Caroline (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxfam, ©1999.
Temas:
Oxfam GB
Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
Women in development.
Sex role.
Women > Economic conditions.
Femmes dans le développement.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Femmes > Conditions économiques.
sex role.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Developing & Emerging Countries.
Sex role
Women > Economic conditions
Women in development
Aufsatzsammlung
Frauenförderung
Developing countries > Training of.
Developing countries
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / David Bryer
  • Introduction / Fenella Porter, Ines Smyth, Caroline Sweetman
  • SECTION I. THE CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTATION
  • Much ado about knitting: the experience of Bosfam (Bosnia) / Usha Kar
  • Men in the kitchen, women in the office? Working on gender issues in Ethiopia / Feleke Tadele
  • Gender concerns in emergencies / Fiona Gell
  • Gender in times of war (El Salvador) / Martha Thompson
  • Bringing it back home: gender and poverty in the UK / Geraldine Terry
  • Representative systems and accountability structures in refugee settlements in Ikafe, Uganda / Judy Adoko
  • Mind the gap: how what we do differs from what we say (Burkina Faso) / Alice Iddi
  • The spaces between the weave: building alliances at the grassroots (Pakistan) / Maryam Iqbal
  • SECTION II. ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE AND PROCEDURES
  • Changing the rules: implementing a gender policy through organisational procedures / Bridget Walker
  • Two steps forward, one step back: experiences of senior management / Dianna Melrose
  • From infrastructure to people: experiences from Cambodia / Visha Padmanabhan
  • Gender: assessing the impact / Elsa Dawson
  • A rose by any other name: feminism in development NGOs / Ines Smyth
  • Personal management in crisis: experience from Afghanistan / Sue Emmott
  • Rhetoric to reality: a psychological approach / Wendy Carson
  • Setting up the Oxfam nursery / The editors with thanks to Norman Clift
  • SECTION III. THE ROLE OF A SPECIALIST TEAM
  • Chronicle of a death foretold: the birth and death of Oxfam GB's Gender and Development Unit / Suzanne Williams
  • GADU remembered: some reflections on the early years / Tina Wallace
  • Fairytales and feminism: volunteering in the gender team / Alison Farrell
  • Middle-aged man seeks gender team / Chris Roche
  • SECTION IV. WORKING AT DIFFERENT LEVELS
  • Regional cohesion and gender in the Middle East programme / Lina Abu-Habib, Omar Traboulsi
  • The experience of Beijing from a Zambian perspective / Lucy Muyoyeta
  • Women's eyes on the World Bank: integrating gender equity into advocacy work / Lydia Williams
  • Gender and diversity in Oxfam International / Ellen Sprenger, Diane Biray Gregorio
  • Harmonising gender and development: the GAD fund in South Africa / Penny Plowman, Josette Cole
  • Gender means doing things differently: lessons from Oxfam's Women's Linking Project / Candida March
  • Participation and management in South Asia: gender transformation in the AGRA South network / Kanchan Sinha
  • SECTION V. BUILDING CAPACITY
  • From the slipstream to the mainstream: incorporating gender into The Oxfam Handbook of Development and Relief / Deborah Eade
  • The 'cutting edge' of practice? Publishing, gender, and diversity in Oxfam GB / Caroline Sweetman
  • Making visible the invisible: the work of the gender resources centre / Sue Smith
  • A history of gender training in Oxfam / Jan Seed
  • Academic reality: from theory to practice / Rajni Khanna
  • Gender training for policy implementers: only a partial solution / Fenella Porter, Ines Smyth.

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