Men's Involvement in Gender and Development Policy and Practice

In what sectors and contexts should work on gender and development involve men as beneficiaries? What are the issues confronting men who work in development projects that are committed to promoting gender equality? These questions were addressed by contributors to a seminar hosted by Oxfam GB, with the Center for Cross-Cultural Research on Women at the University of Oxford, in Oxford in June 2000. This working paper presents an edited selection of papers given at the seminar by speakers from both North and South. These included women and men working as gender trainers and policy advisers in a wide range of contexts, from a task-force on reproductive health in Egypt to drop-in centres for unemployed men in the north of England. The contributors consider current debates about men and masculinity and argue that gender and development theory, fully expressed in practice, means not only working with women, but also with, and for, men.

ISBN 085598466X   Pages 80 ISBN13 9780855984663 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxfam Publishing   Weight (grammes) 236 Imprint Oxfam Professional   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series title Oxfam Working Papers Publication date 31 May 2001   Height (mm) 297 Library of Congress 2002277410   Width (mm) 210 DEWEY 305.32   Spine width (mm) 6 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Postgraduate, Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction by Caroline Sweetman
		Men, women, and organizational culture: perspectives from donors by Anne Coles		4
		Middle-aged man seeks gender team by Chris Roche		11
		Men in the kitchen, women in the office? Working on gender issues in Ethiopia by Feleke Tadele		16
		Gender training with men: experience and reflections from South Asia by Kamla Bhasin		20
		Gender training with men: experiences and reflections from East Africa by Milton Obote Joshua		35
		Male involvement in perpetuating and challenging the practice of female genital mutilation in Egypt by Nadia Wassef		44
		Men's roles, gender relations, and sustainability in water supplies: some lessons from Nepal by Shibesh Chandra Regmi and Ban Fawcett		52
		Tackling male exclusion in post-industrialised settings: lessons from the UK by Sue Smith		56
		Challenging machismo to promote sexual and reproductive health: working with Nicaraguan men by Peter Sternberg		59
		Men and child-welfare services in the UK by Sandy Ruxton		68
		'Sitting on a rock': men, socio-economic change, and development policy in Lesotho by Caroline Sweetman		71
		About the contributors		80

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