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| Title |
Gender Manual |
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| Project Information |
A Practical Guide for Development
Policy Makers and Practitioners |
| Keywords |
gender, equality, |
| Organisations |
Social Development Division,
DFID |
| Author |
Helen Derbyshire |
| Document Type |
Manual |
| Date of Publication |
April 2002 |
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| Abstract |
The aim of UK international development
policy is to contribute to the elimination
of world poverty. A key component of the strategy
to achieve this is to promote equality for
women, particularly for those who make up
the majority of the billion or more people
living in abject poverty.
Promotion of gender equality and the empowerment
of women is part of the responsibility of
all staff. It is integral to work in all sectors
and regions, and at all levels from national
policy to community level projects.
This gender manual is designed to help non-gender
specialists in recognising and addressing
gender issues in their work. The intention
is to demystify gender, make the concept and
practice of gender “mainstreaming“
accessible to a wide audience, and clarify
when to call in specialist help. Whilst designed
for DFID staff and partner organisations,
the manual should provide useful information
and guidance for staff from any government
or civil society organisation striving to
recognise and address gender issues in their
work. The manual is intended to be enabling
rather than prescriptive. It focuses on the
processes of gender mainstreaming which are
similar in all sectoral and regional contexts,
and also similar, in some instances, to other
processes of social development and organisational
change.
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