Gender and Development

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Gender and Development
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The Role of Gender in NGDOsBy Alan Fowler

• 1. Why is gender an issue for NGOs?
• 2. How has the history of gender appreciation
  evolved in the aid system
• 3. Does the author believe that NGOs are
  gender-neutral? Why or why not? What are his
  reasons?
• 4. What are his suggestions to make NGOs more
  gender-balance?
• Do you agree with his suggestions?
• 5. How can gender-awareness management affect
  NGO partnership between the North and the South?

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Getting Institutions Right for Women in
Development

• What does it mean by getting institutions right
  for women in development? What institutions?
• What does the author mean by institution and
  organization?
• What are different institutional contexts of
  development organizations?
• According to the author, in what ways are the
  above-institutions andocentric?
•  In what ways do social institutions and
  development organizations still produce gendered
  outcomes, which put women in disadvantaged
  positions?
• Discuss the following concepts that help to
  better understand gendered nature of
  institutions.
• a.              institutional and org history
• b.              the gendered cognitive context
• c.               gendered organizational culture
• d.              gendered participant
• e.              gendered space and time
• f.                the sexuality of organizations
• g. gendered incentive and accountability
  systems