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Short Summary
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| Title |
Failing Women, Sustaining Poverty: Gender in
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) |
| Author |
Whitehead, A. |
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May 2003 |
| Publisher |
UK Gender and Development Network |
| Donor |
UK Gender and Development Network (GAD Network)
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Short Summary |
Why have so few Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
(PRSPs) taken women's poverty seriously? To answer the question, this
paper draws on PRSP processes from Tanzania, Bolivia, Malawi and Yemen.
As elsewhere, the PRSPs fail to address gender in a coherent and consistent
way. If addressed, gender issues feature only under sections on health
and education rather than being mainstreamed. The analyses of poverty
are limited, failing to question why certain groups of people, including
women, are poor. Capacity for a gendered poverty analysis which also
embraces macroeconomic issues, needs to be built within government
including national women's machineries. Consultation with civil society
organisations was generally weak, and women's voices were hardly sought
out and never listened to. Gender-sensitive participatory consultations
are recommended, as are efforts to follow these through to ensure
women influence policy priorities and spending. The report ends with
the warning that the current resistance to gender advocacy may be
due not only to lack of capacity but also to a lack of political will.
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