Assessing the Gender Impact of Development Projects: Case Studies from Bolivia, Burkina Faso and India - Softcover

Gianotten, V.; Et Al

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9068327070 ISBN 13: 9789068327076

Publisher: KIT Publishers, 1994

Synopsis

Will proposed development projects have the effects intended? Who will benefit, and who will not? What side-effects are likely? These are just some of the questions behind this new methodological approach for use in planning and assessing product designs.The authors argue that gender impact assessment is an appropriate way to estimate the expected impact of an intervention, such as a development project, on women; and how the specific interests and needs of various categories of women will be affected. The book describes how development projects can have either positive or negative effects on the division of labour, and access to and control over allocation of resources, benefits, and decision-making in a society. It recognises that different groups of women (farmers and non-farmers, rich and poor, and so forth) have different interests; and that the interest of women cited in a proposed project or programme must be reflected in the design of activities and institutional linkage, so that intentions become reality. The book concludes that it is essential that gender differences are explored throughout the planning phase, since projects are unlikely to respond to women's needs, and

Edition details

• Publisher: KIT Publishers
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9068327070
• ISBN 13: 9789068327076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104