Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development

Abstract

Part I Accountability to women - theoretical perspectives: getting representation right for women in development - accountability, consent, and the articulation of women's interests, Katherine Fierlbeck making development organizations accountable - the organizational, political, and cognitive contexts, Nuket Kardam fish, feminists and the FAO - translating through different institutions in the development process, Elizabeth Harrison. Part II Institutionalizing gender equity in state bureaucracies: mainstreaming gender concerns - aspects of compliance, resistance and negotiation, Virginia O. del Rosario women's movements, the state and democratization in Chile - the establishment of SERNAM, Georgina Waylen gender and representation - women MPs in the Indian parliament (1991-1996), Shirin M. Rai. Part III Institutionalizing gender equity in NGOs: engendering organizational change - the BRAC case, Aruno Rao and David Kelleher what's in a design? - the effects of NGO programme delivery choices on women's empowerment in Bangladesh, Brooke Ackerly. Part IV The role of individual agents: actor orientation and gender relations at a participatory project interface, Cecile Jackson local heroes - patterns of field worker discretion in implementing GAD policy in Bangladesh, Anne Marie Goetz. Part V Women organizing for themselves: what is different about women's organizations?, Tahera Yasmin women organizing women - doing it backwards and in high heels, Sheelagh Stewart and Jill Taylor.

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