Volumes 31 - 40: Recent submissions
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Missing Men?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2000)Summaries This article explores the implications of missing men for Gender and Development. Men, in all their diversity, are largely missing from representations of ‘gender issues’ and ‘gender relations’ in GAD. Mainstream ... -
Which Men, Why Now?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2000)Summaries This article interrogates the impulses behind the current interest in men and masculinities within a gender and development framework. It argues that the Women and Development agenda, which was propelled onto ... -
Changing Women and Avoiding Men
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2000)Summaries Health care researchers have documented that in many settings male social prerogatives powerfully condition women's relationship to health care systems. Particularly in the area of reproductive health care, the ... -
Analysing Gender Roles in Community Natural Resource Management
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2000)Summaries This article considers the absence of convincing analyses of gender roles in thinking about community?based natural resource management. It suggests that policies and approaches are inadequately gendered and ... -
Making Sense of Male Experience
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2000)Summaries During the twentieth century gender achievement in education has undergone a major transformation in the English?speaking Caribbean. Males are now the underachievers on global indicators, especially at the higher ... -
Alternative Masculinities in South Asia
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2000)Summaries Masculinity and its impact on gender relations and the institutionalisation of power exercised by men have been critically commented upon on by activists and academics working on issues related to gender relations. ... -
Why Men?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2000)Summaries There is today a call for a broader view on gender relations and there are also some signs that men are becoming increasingly involved in the promotion of gender equality. An important principle of Sida's policy ... -
Addressing Men and Masculinities in GAD
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2000)Summaries The GAD approach in both concept and practice has been inconsistent in its treatment of men and masculinities. In their work on mainstreaming gender in policy and planning, the authors have tried to confront ... -
NGOs' Seat at the Donor Table:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2000)Summary This article argues the case for three types of reform that would enable the relationship between NGDOs and their official donors to move closer to that predicated on ‘partnership’ — a relational condition that, ... -
Introduction Beyond Partnership:
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Beneficiaries, Mercenaries, Missionaries and Revolutionaries:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2000)Summary This article critically examines the involvement of NGOs in World Bank?supported development projects. It attempts to ‘unpack’ NGO involvement in Bank projects by shedding light on the variety of motivations that ... -
Partnership for Whom?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2000)Summary The article examines in what sense various donors understand and interpret the term ‘partnership’ and whether relations between local NGOs and their donors actually fulfill the meaning of this term in Cambodia. ... -
Constructing an NGO Sector in Transitional Contexts:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2000)Summary This article considers NGO?donor relationships in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Both NGOs and aid donors have emerged only recently as meaningful actors in post?Soviet space. More particularly, they have ... -
Strengthening Local Organisation:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2000)Summary As aid agencies embrace the concept of strengthening local organisation as an end rather than a means for achieving project objectives, there is need for wider understanding of best practice and lessons learnt in ... -
Editorial Introduction Re?visioning Social Policy in the South
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Social Policy and Rights in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2000)Summaries The agenda for social development in Africa, and therefore the framework in which social policy is defined, has undergone major shifts over the last forty years. This has partly been the result of the ability ... -
States, Social Policies and Globalisations
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2000)Summaries The debate about future social policies in OECD countries is framed in the light of rich country concerns, notably of a ‘welfare state at risk’. Because globalisation processes can plausibly be presented as a ... -
Globalisation
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2000)Summaries This article argues that the current phase of neoliberal globalisation presents a challenge to the prospects for equitable social development in developing and transition economies. This challenge flows partly ... -
From Users and Choosers to Makers and Shapers
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2000)Summaries This article explores approaches to participation in social policy, setting them within broader debates on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Drawing on studies of participation in a range of social ... -
Decomposing Welfare
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2000)Summaries Through comparisons of the composition of welfare provision in different countries and regions, this article shows how welfare systems are determined by different natural and cultural conditions, and argues that ...
