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| Date Added to Site: 28th March 2006 | ||
| Short Summary | ||
| Title | NGOs, Gender Mainstreaming and Urban Poor Communities in Mumbai | |
| Author | Desai , V. | |
| Publication Date | July 2005 | |
| Publisher | Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group | |
| Volume | Gender and Development | |
| Series | Volume 13, Number 2 | |
| Donor | Oxfam | |
| Short Summary |
How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) support women during rapid economic, social and political change? This article argues that NGOs working at the community level can play an important role in supporting women to challenge customs and beliefs which perpetuate unequal gender relations. However, this becomes particularly challenging in a context of rapid change, such as in Mumbai. This article focuses on gender mainstreaming in small grassroots NGOs in Mumbai and identifies some of the main challenges they face: •NGOs have limited conceptual understanding of how their interventions facilitate women's empowerment in the context of rapid change; •Cost and efficiency considerations often override concerns for more gender-aware participatory practice; •Attempts to co-ordinate small-scale localised actions into more powerful movements are often unsuccessful. These challenges point to the need for NGOs to understand the social and cultural impact of globalisation and economic change in India, and the way in which this is changing the nature of women's roles and participation in civil society. To obtain a paper copy, contact Oxfam - Gender and Development journal, 274 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DZ, UK, Tel: +44 (0)870 333 2700, Email: csweetman@oxfam.co.uk For an electronic copy, visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals Summary written in collaboration with the Eldis Gender Guide (http://www.eldis.org/gender) |
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