De focus verleggen van het individu naar het familiehuishouden kan bijdragen aan het bestrijden van genderongelijkheden. Auteur onderzocht bij de Q'éqchi Maya's in Guatemala de mogelijkheden en beperkingen van de Family Based Approach.
Well-designed community-driven development (CDD) projects are an effective tool for empowering women at the local level in developing countries. When these projects ensure that women and men have an equal voice in and gain equal benefits from the community's development decisions, CDD projects can become more effective and sustainable by meeting the needs of both women and men, and by giving both women and men a stake in the success of the community's projects.
Advocates for gender equality in many parts of the world have, since the past years, begun to engage with government budgetary processes, as researchers, organisers of women’s groups, elected representatives, or government ministries. These distinct actors have come together under the assumption that involving marginalised women more directly in the process of governance makes for ‘gender-responsive’ citizens, ‘gender-responsive’ decisions, and ‘gender-responsive’ government. Gender Responsive Budgeting is understood as a helpful tool to track these policies through the way that budgets respond to women’s priorities and the use of government funds to promote gender equality.
Collection of different articles explores the existence of money in relation to the basic concerns of gender and development to end poverty and inequality between the sexes. Irene van Staveren discusses the relationships between gender and finance and focuses on gender-based inequalities and inefficiencies that are created as a result. Brigit Anderson explores domestic labour of migrant workers in Europe and in particular the UK. Joyce B. Endeley asks how women and men in Bafaw and Mogham society in Cameroon deal with the concept of women's empowerment, in relation to income-generation and decision-making. Juliet Hunt and Naline Kasynathan reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of approaches taken by NGO's in Bangladesh and Bihar in India. Development workers and researchers have to focus on strategies that support the transformation of gender relations to support women's empowerment. Liliane Ploumen pays attention to Mama Cash, a Dutch independent organisation that is committed to changing and improving the position of women, through providing both financial an moral support to women's groups and entrepreneurs all over the world. Gill Seyfang explores the diverse range of new money schemes and examines the gender implications. Daphne Jayasinghe pleas for Caribbean women's access to training to meet requirements of new industries. Ingrid Robeyns discusses different arguments for a basic income, and relate these to ethical and moral questions. Robeyns also asks whether a basic income is desirable for women or whether additional concerns can be raised from a gender perspective. This special also contains a list of addresses and websites.