Gender-awareness and policies
Theory and practice among small NGDOs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3885940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeannette Lekskes (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 478-482 |
| Publication date | 1998-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development in Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09614529853503 |
| PMID | 12321994 |
| OpenAlex | W1981814338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
While in recent years, many nongovernmental development organizations (NGDOs) have committed themselves to addressing gender inequality in their development work, little is known about the gender-related practices of small NGDOs with annual budgets of less than 1 million pounds. It is known, however, that larger NGDOs tend to have developed more gender-aware policies and practices than smaller ones. Findings are reported from an exploration of the gender-related awareness and practices of 13 small NGDOs, 8 based in the UK and 5 based in Cameroon. The study found that at the organizational level, all studied organizations were aware of the concept of gender and acknowledged its importance, but had a wide range of ideas of what gender actually means. Most organizations had not devised any specific way of incorporating gender into their programs because they had neither a specific person nor unit responsible for gender issues. Male NGDO employees were not really involved in gender issues. Policy- and project-level findings are presented, followed by consideration of the problems encountered by small NGDOs, the advantages of such organizations, how to ensure gender-aware practices, gender and development versus women in development approaches, and recommendations for good practice
Best practice · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Gender analysis · Gender and development · Gender disparity · Gender equality · Gender gap · Gender history · Gender inequality · Gender mainstreaming · Inequality · Political science · Public relations · Social change · Sociology · Engineering · Gender Studies · International Development and Aid · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |