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Advancing Gender Equality in Bangladesh : Twenty Years of BRAC's Gender Quality Action Learning Programme
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Advancing Gender Equality in Bangladesh : Twenty Years of BRAC's Gender Quality Action Learning Programme / Rieky Stuart.
ISBN
1315195089
9781315195087
Edition
First edition.
Publication
London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource : text file, PDF
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Summary
"In 1994, BRAC, the world's largest NGO, made headlines by putting women's rights centre stage in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world. The Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) Programme was one of the very first large-scale efforts to mainstream gender equality and aimed to weave objectives of gender equality throughout its own microfinance, education and health services. Advancing Gender Equality in Bangladesh describes the history, implementation, and outcome of this major 20-year initiative and discusses the lessons learnt throughout the fight to achieve gender equality outcomes in an effort to provide a tangible framework for future organizations interested in promoting gender equality and social inclusion. At a time when many gender equality programmes are still relatively young, this book offers a unique opportunity to track 20 years of intervention within a theoretical and cultural context and provides a platform for ongoing discussion about the roles of empowerment and gender transformation as agents for social change. This book provides an in-depth analysis of how strategies for change have operated in practice and will be of considerable interest to students, researchers and practitioners of international development, gender studies and social justice theory as well as those interested in a new practical methodology of the gender role framework."--Provided by publisher
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge ISS Gender, Sexuality and Development Studies
Contents
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Working on gender equality in organizations: the state of play in 1994
Doing 'training' differently in support of organizational change
Strategic choices and trade-offs
Evolution, learning and adaptation
The structure of this book
Notes
References
1. The context in 1994
Gender relations in Bangladesh in 1994
BRAC's early days
What BRAC was doing to promote gender equality in 1994
Notes
References
2. Strengthening BRAC's ability to advance gender equality
The team: what we were trying to do
Administering diagnostic tools to establish a baseline
Findings of the needs-assessment exercise
Developing and negotiating an action-learning plan
How is action learning different from training?
Notes
References
3. Implementing GQAL in BRAC
Designing and testing GQAL in BRAC
The GQAL review process
Research findings
Results synthesis
Limitations of staff GQAL
Lessons learned
Notes
References
4. Implementing GQAL in the community
The evolution of GQAL in the community: concepts and practices
Working on gender equality and social norms at multiple levels
Piloting GQAL in communities
Integrating GQAL in the Ultra Poor Programme
GQAL as a stand-alone programme
Changing lives in one generation
Notes
References
5. Conclusion
Factors that contributed to GQAL's success
Community GQAL
Current literature and GQAL
Measuring gender-equality change
What are the messages for theory and practice in other organizations?
Limitations
Final words
Notes
References
Appendix 1: BRAC gender-equality milestones.
Appendix 2: Interview schedules and questionnaires
Appendix 3: List of people interviewed
Appendix 4: Staff GQAL survey questionnaire (English version)
Appendix 5: Criteria for issue selection
Appendix 6: Steps towards gender mainstreaming, 1994-2016
Index.
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