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Contributions from feminist activists, development researchers and workers here focus on collective forms of enterprise to maximise co-operation between poor women entrepreneurs, women workers' rights and corporate accountability, gender and Fair Trade, and women's economic empowerment.

Gender, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning explores the tools and approaches used by different organizations to monitor women's economic empowerment, incidence of violence against women and girls and other aspects of women's empowerment.

Gender, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning explores the tools and approaches used by different organizations to monitor women's economic empowerment, incidence of violence against women and girls and other aspects of women's empowerment.

This book considers women 's access to land and their role in food production in developing counties.Articles in this collection assert that women 's contribution to global agricultural production for food and for profit continues to be largely unacknowledged and undervalued, and that their ability to farm is constrained by lack of control of land, agricultural inputs, credit, and other essential resources. Thirty years after the first studies...

The articles assess the implications for gender and development policy and practice of looking at male gender identities, as the issues of men and masculinity have often been marginalised. The focus of this work is on male gender identity and the effect this has on the society and community around them.

This volume analyses approaches to economic and political change and propose ways of ensuring that ideas are translated into concrete actions. The aim is to re-politicise the gender and development community with a solutions-oriented approach which looks at globalisation through women's eyes, and finds energising ideas.

In no country do women participate in political leadership on a par with men. Lack of a voice at all levels of decisionmaking in societies worldwide perpetuates women's poverty and marginalization. The contributors to this book discuss women's own strategies for ensuring gender parity in government and NGOs, including leadership training, the need for women's leadership of the institutions which distribute resources for development, so they re...

In what sectors and contexts should work on gender and development involve men as beneficiaries? What are the issues confronting men who work in development projects that are committed to promoting gender equality? These questions were addressed by contributors to a seminar hosted by Oxfam GB, with the Center for Cross-Cultural Research on Women at the University of Oxford, in Oxford in June 2000. This working paper presents an edited selectio...

This book examines how gender inequalities impact on people's experiences of poverty and demonstrates the importance of integrating gender analysis into development initiatives. Covering a range of issues including macro-level neo-liberal restructuring, poverty reduction strategies, gender budgets, education, HIV/AIDS, globalization and poverty.

Focusing upon microfinance and micro-credit issues, the contributors to this volume ask just what role does earning play in transforming the power relations between men and women? How far does a change in gender roles affect beliefs about who has the power in the household, the marketplace or that state? And how can one value the unpaid work that most women perform in the home and family context?

This collection explores the complex links between social and economic development and religious and spiritual belief. Writers explore the scope for promoting women's rights and needs offered by religious belief and practice and analyse feminist responses to fundamentalist regimes which use religious doctrine to justify women's oppression.

This collection explores conflict prevention through development projects when resources are scarce, and agreements between groups come under strain. Other activities take place to arrest existing conflicts, by forming alliances across warring forces - the authors argue that women play a significant but underestimated role in this type of work.

This collection focuses on implications for development goals of poverty alleviation and human rights. In particular, critiques from Southern women challenge development organisations for their inadequate and inappropriate policy and practice with gender inequality as a key concern.

Focusing on citizenship means thinking about the relationships between individuals and the states in which they live. What difference does having citizenship rights mean for people's lives? Are structures of governance efficient, and responsive to people's needs?

Issues covered include women's comparative lack of access to medical care throughout the life-cycle, mental health, why infectious diseases are a gender issue, the role of older women in health promotion, gender-sensitive monitoring and impact assessment of health projects, and women's gender-specific needs to control the number of children they bear and prevent exposure to sexually-transmitted disease, including HIV/AIDS.

This collection of articles explores how marriage is linked to gender inequalities, women's human rights, and development policy. It examines the economic, social, cultural, and health impacts of women's marital status and the implications for development initiatives.

This book shows how women are finding ways to influence national and international trade policy agendas in developed countries and are joining forces in global forums to campaign for reforms over trade agreements on agricultural products, intellectual property, and the movement of migrant labour

From the perspective of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the 21st century. Despite some successes women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education and medical care. Women throughout the world are still economically, politically and socially marginalised at a time when the globalisation of busi...

This collection focuses on the Millennium Development Goals from a gender perspective. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of this way of understanding and addressing poverty, and suggests ways of strengthening the approach by using key insights and approaches associated with the struggle to establish and uphold the rights of women.

The delivery of new technologies to communities in developing countries has been hailed as the key to economic and social progress. However, womens' experiences show that this view is an exaggeration, over-simplifying the potential of technology to deliver development. Different technologies in varying social contexts offer opportunities to challenge existing barriers to economic and political participation, but they can also be used to consol...