Lost in translation? Keeping women's issues alive in gender and development initiatives

Vidyamali Samarasinghe

Development in Practice, 2014, vol. 24, issue 1, 30-38

Abstract: Gender and Development (GAD) theory has been enthusiastically embraced by all leading official donor agencies as the basis for initiating women's development initiatives in developing countries of the South. Based on a field survey of women's development initiatives in Sri Lanka, this paper shows the difficulties encountered by aid-dependent developing countries in the South in using the concept “gender”, as defined in the GAD theory, in their women's development activities, especially at the local community level.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2014.867303

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