* Shows how to incorporate gender analysis into planning and evaluation
* Examples drawn form South Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa

Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women "matter" in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women’s needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier "gender-blind" efforts that simply ignored women’s specific concerns.

Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on issues such as mainstreaming versus specialization, methodologies for incorporating gender analysis into planning and evaluation, the limitations of gender training, the unintended impacts of women-focused credit programs, and how institutional policies to promote gender equity are often tacitly undermined by patriarchal interests.

Table of Contents:

Targeting women on transforming institutions? Policy lessons from NGO anti-poverty efforts - Naila Kabeer; Soup kitchens, women and social policy: studies from Peru - Luiba Kogan; Dealing with hidden issues: trafficked women in Nepal - Meena Poudel and Anita Shrestha; The Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network - Hope Chigudu; Participatory development: an approach sensitive to class and gender - Dan Connell; Women in the informal sector: the contribution of education and training - Fiona Leach; The evaporation of gender policies in the patriarchal cooking pot - Sara Hlupelike Longwe