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THE MICROPOLITICS OF EVAPORATION: GENDER MAINSTREAMING INSTRUMENTS IN PRACTICE
Author(s) -
Eerdewijk Anouka
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.2951
Subject(s) - transformative learning , gender mainstreaming , mainstreaming , sociology , political science , gender equality , public administration , gender studies , law , pedagogy , special education
Dutch development agencies have actively taken up gender mainstreaming strategies since the mid‐1990s. This article considers two gender mainstreaming instruments, gender targets and gender assessments, and investigates their transformative effect. A five shifts approach is applied to both the instruments' design on paper and the implementation in practice. The analysis reveals two disconnections, which undermine their transformative potential: between organisational and operational level of policies and between the administrative and conceptual aspects. The emptying and narrowing down of the concept of gender is made possible because the desired transformation of policy is made an individual affair rather than institutional affair. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.