1st Edition
Rethinking Gender in Development Practice Lessons from the Field
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.
Introduction
Emily Finlay
1. Is development work still so straight? Heteronormativity in the development sector over a decade on
Susie Jolly
2. Buzzwords and fuzzwords: deconstructing development discourse
Andrea Cornwall
3. Taking the power out of empowerment – an experiential account
Srilatha Batliwala
4. Seeing empowerment as relational: lessons from women participating in development projects in Cambodia
Philippe Doneys, Donna L. Doane, and Sina Norm
5. Targeting women or transforming institutions?
Naila Kabeer
6. Defining women’s empowerment in women and girl safe spaces: a call for collective self-determination
Hala Nasr
7. From complexity to simplicity – how chasing success stories affects gendered NGO practices
Maren Olene Kloster
8. Research uptake, lessons from a multi-country global program: What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
Leane Ramsoomar, Rebecca Ladbury, and Rachel Jewkes
9. A study on capacity development in the ‘What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women’ program
Samantha Willan, Alice Kerr-Wilson, Anna Parke, and Andrew Gibbs
10. The gendered impact of COVID-19 on FGM
Ottis Mubaiwa, Tamsin Bradley, and Jane Meme
11. Shifting gender roles: an analysis of violence against women in post-conflict Uganda
Anasuya Sengupta and Muriel Calo
12. Exploring the use of film to stimulate dialogue on the issues of gender inequality in Samoa
Ramona Boodoosingh and Safua Akeli Amaama
Biography
Emily Finlay is Managing Editor of the journal Development in Practice; an Affiliate of Monash University’s School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies, Australia; and Chair of the Institute of Professional Editors’ Standing Committee on Academic Editing.
Patrick Kilby is Editor in Chief of the journal Development in Practice and has honorary Associate Professor positions at both the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has over forty years’ experience working in development both as a practitioner and an academic.
Rochelle Spencer is Deputy Editor of the journal Development in Practice and co-Director of the Research for Development Impact Network, Australia. Her research interests include the rural livelihoods in Africa, gender and development, feminist and participatory processes, Indigenous social enterprise, and development tourism.
Joyce Wu (PhD) is Senior Lecturer in Global Development at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia. She is a Deputy Editor of Development in Practice.
