This Guide focuses on ways to use gender analysis to increase the effectiveness of development programs and projects for sustainable development. The primary goal is to make policy, program and project specialists aware of simple and inexpensive tools to incorporate gender concerns into development action. The tools discussed include PRA methods as well as more conventional techniques. They offer ways of gathering data and analysing gender as a variable in household and community organisation for natural resource management. Each tool is illustrated with an application from ECOGEN research.
This study of internationational development agencies ranges from Biafra to Rwanda, from administrative costs to participatory development, and it examines the phenomenon of the transnational mega-charity (such as CARE, World Vision, Plan International) focusing on threats to the independence of voluntary organisations.