Caroline Sweetman
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Mainstreaming Gender in Development
Fenella Porter, Caroline Sweetman
This volume offers a critical review of gender mainstreaming and aims to be enabling and practical, offering ways to help identify solutions and move past dilemmas into action. Articles discuss how gender mainstreaming has been understood in different organisations; provide examples of good work, wh...
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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...
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Women, Employment and Exclusion
Considering various types of finance schemes, this text compares the effectiveness of various approaches in aiding poverty reduction. The provision of credit and other financial services has become increasingly seen as the answer to the problem facing poor people. Microfinance interventions have the...
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Working with Men for Gender Equality
Working with men on gender equality is essential to challenge patriarchal constraints that men experience in their own lives. Authors here share experience of working with men to question traditional ideas about masculinity. Men rejecting these norms are not only happier, but are also critical allie...
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Young Feminisms
Caroline Sweetman, Imogen Davies
There are more young people today than ever before, and many countries in the global South have youth populations which make up well over half of the total. Against the backdrop of the #MeToo and #AidToo revelations, sexual abuse and harassment, and targeting and persecution by governments is a real...