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Author:   Tina Wallace (Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Open University Business School) ,  Fenella Porter
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
Imprint:   Practical Action Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9781853397790

ISBN 10:   1853397792
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 April 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1.Introduction Tina Wallace and Fenella Porter Section One - A Perfect Storm 2.Development from the ground: A worm's eye view Stan Thekaekara 3.Evaluation, complexity, uncertainty - theories of change and some alternatives Chris Mowles 4. Losing Sight of our Purpose? Suzanne Walker 5. Can girls save the world? Kate Grosser and Nikki van der Gaag 6. Lost in Translation: Gender Mainstreaming in Afghanistan Anastasiya Hozyainova 7. Insulating the Developing Classes Tom Scott-Smith 8. Reconnecting Development Policy, People and History David Lewis Section Two - Changing conversations 9. Taking our lead from reality - an open practice for social development David Harding 10. Women on wheels Meenu Vadera 11.Too young to be women, too old to be girls: The [Un]Changing Aid landscape and the reality of girls at risk Seri Wendoh 12. Looking Beyond the Numbers: reducing violence against women in Ghana Kanwal Ahluwalia 13. From local to global and back again - learning from Stepping Stones Alice Welbourn 14.Peace Practice Examined Bridget Walker 15. I don't know ... and related thoughts Ashish Shah 16.Apolitical stories of sanitation and suffering women Deepa Joshi 17.Conclusion Tina Wallace

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Overall, Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women s Lives offers an accessible and politically astute introduction to the current state of international development policy and practice. It challenges readers to think critically about how neoliberal ideologies inflect international development (and human services more generally), about development managerialism, and about the unacknowledged pitfalls of the current rush to empower girls and women.

Overall, <i>Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women's Lives</i> offers an accessible and politically astute introduction to the current state of international development policy and practice. It challenges readers to think critically about how neoliberal ideologies inflect international development (and human services more generally), about development managerialism, and about the unacknowledged pitfalls of the current rush to empower girls and women. --Jeanne Marecek and Cynthia Caron

Overall, Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women s Lives offers an accessible and politically astute introduction to the current state of international development policy and practice. It challenges readers to think critically about how neoliberal ideologies inflect international development (and human services more generally), about development managerialism, and about the unacknowledged pitfalls of the current rush to empower girls and women. --Jeanne Marecek and Cynthia Caron

Author Information

Tina Wallace has worked in development, as an academic, practitioner and activist for over 35 years and has conducted reviews with the major NGOs including Oxfam, ActionAid, WaterAid, Amnesty International, as well as IIED and the UK's Department for International Development. Fenella Porter lectures in development at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been an activist and researcher on development and gender, with NGOs and women's organizations in Africa and the UK.

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