Gender mainstreaming in European commission development policy in Asia: a transformative tool?
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- Petra Debusscher (UGent)
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- Abstract
- This article examines gender mainstreaming in European Commission (EC) development aid to Asian countries through quantitative and qualitative study of program documents. First, gender mainstreaming is assessed as a set of techniques of policy practice focusing on gender mainstreaming language, its place in policy texts and inclusion in budgets and indicators. Next, it is approached as a philosophy or frame of analysis, evaluating its transformative potential and analyzing how the issue of gender (in)equality is tackled. I conclude that gender mainstreaming in EC-Asian relations has flourished as an expert-bureaucratic tool, but its transformative potential has been neglected. The intra-European Union agenda, as well as the lack of space for Asian civil society voices, are proposed as explanations.
- Keywords
- Civil Society, EQUALITY, European Commission, European Union, Gender, Gender Mainstreaming, Development Policy, Asia
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-1154681
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- Debusscher, Petra. “Gender Mainstreaming in European Commission Development Policy in Asia: A Transformative Tool?” ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES, vol. 16, no. 3, 2010, pp. 80–111.
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- Debusscher, P. (2010). Gender mainstreaming in European commission development policy in Asia: a transformative tool? ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES, 16(3), 80–111.
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- Debusscher, Petra. 2010. “Gender Mainstreaming in European Commission Development Policy in Asia: A Transformative Tool?” ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES 16 (3): 80–111.
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- Debusscher, Petra. 2010. “Gender Mainstreaming in European Commission Development Policy in Asia: A Transformative Tool?” ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES 16 (3): 80–111.
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- 1.Debusscher P. Gender mainstreaming in European commission development policy in Asia: a transformative tool? ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES. 2010;16(3):80–111.
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- [1]P. Debusscher, “Gender mainstreaming in European commission development policy in Asia: a transformative tool?,” ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 80–111, 2010.
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