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    Strategies of feminist bureaucrats : perspectives from international NGOs

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    2012
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    Smyth, Ines
    Turquet, Laura
    Eyben, Rosalind
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    This paper explores the challenges and opportunities for feminists working as women’s rights and gender equality specialists in international non-governmental development organisations, as analysed from an insider practitioner perspective. Part 1 identifies the strategies used and the challenges encountered when Turquet lobbied DFID on its gender equality policy while struggling to avoid marginalisation within her own organisation, Action Aid. In Part 2, Smyth describes how she left Oxfam for a year to work in the Asian Development Bank and uses this experience to consider the strategic opportunities available to a gender specialist working in an NGO such as Oxfam as compared with working in an international finance institution. Keywords: INGOs, gender mainstreaming, feminist activism, gender and development
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    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4253
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    Smyth, I. & L. Turquet (2012) Strategies of feminist bureaucrats : perspectives from international NGOs. Working paper series, 396. Brighton: IDS.
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    IDS working papers;396
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