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Gender-Sensitive 60 Shalendra D Sharma The views expressed in Gender and ^eloPmentj and in the Focus on Gender books are those o the si au hors, and not necessarily those of the PuWJJ* *e funders, or the Editorial Advisers. Authors affiliations ar given for identification purposes only. Oxfam The books in Oxf am's Focus on Gender series were originally published as single issues of the journal Gender and Development (formerly Focus on Gender). Gender and Development is published by Oxfam three times a year. It is the only British journal to focus specifically on gender and development issues internationally, to explore the links between gender and development initiatives, and to make the links between theoretical and practical work in this field. For information about subscription rates, please apply to Carfax Publishing Company, PO Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3UE, UK; Fax: +44 (0) 1235 401550. In North America, please apply to Carfax Publishing Company, 875-81 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139; Fax: (+1) 617 354 6875. In Australia, please apply to Carfax Publishing Company, PO Box 352, Cammeray, NSW 2062, Australia; Fax: +61 (0) 2 9958 2376. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the Publisher. Front cover: A trainee community healthworker leads a discussion on household hygiene during a workshop held near Bukumbi, Tanzania. Photo: Geoff Sayer © Oxfam (UK and Ireland) 1997 Reprinted by Oxfam GB in 1999 Published by Oxfam (UK and Ireland), 274 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DZ, UK. Designed and typeset by Oxfam Design Department OX417/RB/96 Oxfam is a registered charity No. 202918 Oxfam (UK and Ireland) is a member of Oxfam International ISBN 0 85598 365 5 This book converted to digital file in 2010 Contents Editorial 2 Caroline Sweetman Rethinking organisations: a feminist perspective 10 Aruna Rao and Rieky Stuart Managing organisational change: the 'gendered' organisation of space and time 17 Anne Marie Goetz Implementing a Gender Policy in ACORD: strategies, constraints, and challenges 28 Angela Hadjipateras Establishing a feminist culture: the experience of Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network 35 Hope Chigudu AFRA confronts gender issues: the process of creating a gender strategy 43 Moya Bydawell Promoting women entrepreneurs in Lebanon: the experience of UNIFEM 49 Randa Husseini Women's rights, the family, and organisational culture: a Lesotho case study 54 Elizabeth Everett Making the Human Development Index (HDI) gender-sensitive 60 Shalendra D Sharma Interview: Magda Mateus Cardenas 62 Resources: Book Review: Gender, Culture, and Organisational Change: Putting Theory into Practice, Itzin C and Newman J (eds) 67 Sara Chamberlain Further reading 69 Gender and Development Vol 5, No. 1, February 1997 Editorial rganisations are culturally-defined well as for the development interventions entities, which reflect and replicate they undertake. Othe values of those who set them All the authors in this collection up: 'national cultural values are reflected emphasise the interlinkedness of the in the ways organisations function, and external and internal contexts for develop- these values stereotype appropriate roles ment organisations. No longer is it tenable and behaviours in ways that generally limit to see interventions as existing in 'the women's access to resources and decision- field', divorced from the guiding prin- making' (Anderson 1993). This collection ciples which have formed the organisa- of articles examines these issues in the tion's purpose and structure, and context of development organisations; determined the choice of staff. Working looking at organisations as social mechan- on gender issues obliges organisations to isms in this way makes examining gender set their own houses in order, and change and organisational culture of central aspects of the organisational culture relevance to development practitioners which discriminate against women staff, and policy-makers. and women 'beneficiaries'. A crucial question is what the term 'gender equity' means to different stake- Gender and organisations: holders. For some, taking on a commit- ment to this goal may mean no more than a three-dimensional view the adoption of an equal opportunities Gender in the context of development policy. For others, it means targeting organisations is a complex topic. In this women as beneficiaries in development introduction, the articles to follow are interventions. For a third group, a concern contextualised through the use of an for gender equity means adopting a analytical framework which highlights radical political agenda which asserts not the inter-relationship between the cultural only women's needs, but their rights to and structural elements of organisations. full participation in decision-making at all The framework, originally developed by levels. In this light, taking on a 'gender Marge Schuler to analyse the law and legal agenda' has implications for the internal systems, emphasises the importance running of development organisations as of considering three interdependent Gender and Development Vol 5, No. 1, February 1997 Editorial elements: the substantive (laws, or organ- mainstream2 development organisations) isational policies); the structural (pro- share a common vocabulary with each cedures and mechanisms to enforce the other and with practitioners and policy- substantive level); and the cultural (beliefs makers in organisations which have and attitudes held by wider society, grafted a commitment to working to including the women and men who work promote gender equity onto a markedly in the organisation).1 But while Schuler's different root-stock. framework may be of use in discussing Tensions which exist between very why and how development agencies have different constituencies in development worked on gender issues, artificially are more easily addressed if there is clarity distinguishing between the elements in on the fact that we do not all mean the this way is only helpful if we remain clear same thing when we speak of 'doing that, ultimately, the topic needs to be gender'. For example, awareness of the considered holistically. different agendas which underlie the rhetoric of 'gender' aids understanding of The substantive level: instances where 'unplanned' outcomes may be dismissed as 'project misbehav- reaching a shared vision iour' (Buvinic 1986). If gender and development has moved from the fringe to the mainstream of development, this Women as instruments: WID approaches should be cause for celebration rather than the In her 1995 study of the way four bilateral development donor agencies have feeling of unease about what has been lost in handled gender issues, Rounaq Jahan the translation (Jackson 1996,489). found that 'the relationship between Examining the substantive level of organ- WID/GAD. policy objectives and the isations, as defined in their mandate and agency and governments' overall object- objectives, can explain why in some ives was not clear' (Jahan 1995,115). The organisations, gender issues have been idea that gender relations are fundament- 'depoliticised' to fit into a conservative or ally concerned with power has been liberal world-view rather than a radical conspicuously absent from much of the agenda of social transformation. WID/GAD literature emanating from Recently, gender and development these agencies (White 1992). It therefore researchers have questioned an apparent appears that, consciously or unconscious- consensus around the objectives of gender ly, mainstream development organisa- equality and social transformation (Jahan tions have 'bypassed a large part of the 1995) which exists between very different women's agenda' (ibid., 4). types of development organisation. They There are two notable features at the have found that this common professional substantive level of mainstream develop- language cloaks a very wide range of ment organisations. First, most have a ideological standpoints. Radical messages mandate based on their history of working about gender equity have been 'trans- to eradicate economic poverty in a post- lated' into policies with more conservative war, post-colonial context; they do not rationales and goals: an obvious example inherently question the assumption that is the widespread use of the term 'em- the world should 'develop' along Western powerment' by feminist activists and lines. During the International Decade for multilateral aid agencies alike (Rowlands Women 1976-85, most development 1997). Grassroots women and feminist agencies which adopted a WID perspect- activists (both inside and outside ive did so from a growing awareness of 4 Gender and Development women's marginalisation from develop- grounds that 'Oxfam believes that unless ment activity and their potential in gender-related inequalities are addressed, contributing to economic growth (Kabeer it will not be possible to achieve sustain- 1994). Attempts to integrate women into able development and alleviate poverty' existing economic, social and political (Oxfam 1993, 2). Poverty here is defined structures were due to a recognition of more widely, including a distancing from their potential force in driving forward political, social and economic power. development along Western lines. This is Yet, while a broad definition of poverty an argument based on a rationale of such as this can offer a rationale for efficiency rather than equality. Women working on gender issues,
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