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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Margaret SnyderPublisher: Practical Action Publishing Imprint: Practical Action Publishing Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.70cm Weight: 0.530kg ISBN: 9781853393020ISBN 10: 1853393029 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 15 December 1995 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Acronyms viii Introduction xi PART ONE: Global Poverty and the Politics of Development 1. Toward a New Development Paradigm 3 Project analysis 5 Empowerment 6 Sustainable institutions 7 Innovative and catalytic effects 7 2. Women Create a New Scenario 9 Origins of women and development 9 A pioneering centre in the United Nations 18 Initial concepts and an international model 22 Global interdependence: a shifting agenda 23 3. A Unique Fund for Women 25 Policy development and the search for structure 29 A pattern of decentralization 29 Empowering the system: regional and headquarters staffing and management 30 A distinctive role for the fund: as catalyst 35 4. Reaching the Poorest: A Continuing Challenge 41 Procedures of the project cycle 41 The UNDP partnership 47 New partners in attacking poverty: non-governmental organizations 50 Evolving strategies for operational activities 53 5. Women and World Politics 58 Guilt by association: the Copenhagen Conference 59 The battle of Vienna 62 A new mandate: hard-won autonomy 68 6. Core Resources and Outreach to Partners 74 Government pledges 75 National Committees and an NGO Advisory Committee 76 Earmarked contributions 78 UNIFEM: from an idea to a durable institution 80 PART TWO: UNIFEM at Work in the World: Case Studies 7. Economic Empowerment 85 Innovation in Swaziland: the first UN credit fund 88 From micro-enterprise to setting policy in the Philippines 98 Factory-based production in Laos, China, and Mauritius 115 More than economics: UNIFEM in India 124 8. Social Justice 141 Towards a new development paradigm: WAND in the Caribbean 143 Transferring technology: UNIFEM in Bolivia 151 Development amidst sudden wealth and civil wars: UNIFEM in Western Asia 168 A first for women in Oman 170 Empowerment through traditional approaches in Syria 174 Yemeni women determined to get technology and training 179 Kenyan women put down their heavy load 183 Mexican women stop waiting for clean water 187 9. Political Participation 191 National development planning 192 Institution building 194 Information for participation: Isis in Chile 199 Women mobilize in Zambia 199 Empowering the poor: SEWA 200 A Kenyan woman stands firm 205 Grassroots women's organizations in Peru 210 10. The Africa Investment Plan 224 Food policy and food-cycle technologies 224 The power brokers enter 230 Food policy 231 Energy conservation: fuel-saving stoves and fish smokers 232 Management support: the case of ESAMI 238 Credit support systems 241 'Mainstreaming': linking women with major development resources 241 11. Valuable Lessons for an Uncertain Future 246 Empowerment 246 Sustainable institutions 253 UNIFEM as innovator and catalyst for change 257 From risk to secure livelihoods 259 Annexes 266 Notes 283 Index 309ReviewsAuthor InformationMargaret Snyder lived and worked in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda for a total of 15 years. She is the founding director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She was also a co-founder of the African Centre for Women at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and was a member of the committee to organise Women's World Banking (WWB). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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