DAC Source Book on Concepts and Approaches Linked to Gender Equality

This background document defines key concepts and approaches and provides a selected list of materials on various themes within gender and development.

This background document is divided into two sections. The first defines key concepts and approaches and the second provides a selected list of materials on various themes within gender and development. The key concepts cover a wide range of development issues and are not only gender-specific. In this way descriptions of gender mainstreaming, gender equality and National Machineries for Women's Affairs are alongside institutional issues, monitoring and evaluation, 'resistance', policy dialogue, accountability, empowerment and programme assistance and how these relate to gender. Each concept begins with a discussion of its significance in terms of gender and then key issues are picked out for development policy and practice and references provided.

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DAC Source Book on Concepts and Approaches Linked to Gender Equality