Engendering Transformative Change in International Development

Engendering Transformative Change in International Development
Author: Gillian Fletcher
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2018-09-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351272063

The Sustainable Development Goals were launched in 2015 with grand ambitions for ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all, with ‘no one left behind’. However, these goals will be impossible to achieve without addressing inequity, inequality, marginalisation, and exclusion related to gender, and to other intersecting social hierarchies linked to deeply emotional, culturally bound norms and judgements of worth. This book asks readers to consider issues of knowledge, power, and effectiveness, emphasising the limits of taking a categorical approach to gender and other social hierarchies, and the importance of process in what is known about generating transformative social change. Engendering Transformative Thinking and Practice in International Development draws on a range of real world examples which demonstrate both the limitations of the frameworks currently in use, and the very real possibilities for change when the intersecting social hierarchies that sustain and create inequity and inequality are challenged. This book brings together theoretical perspectives on social change, gender, intersectionality, and forms of knowledge, concluding with a set of proposals for revitalising a change agenda that recognises and engages with intersectionality and practical wisdom. Perfect for students and scholars of social change, gender, and development, this book will also be useful for practitioners looking for new ideas to help to generate social change.

Engendering Wealth And Well-being

Engendering Wealth And Well-being
Author: Cathy Rakowski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429980434

The new international division of labor and the imposition of structural adjustment on Third World countries has necessitated a reexamination of development policies and a reevaluation of the role of gender in their success or failure. Although women often bear the heaviest burden under structural adjustment, there is also considerable evidence of women being empowered through their responses to the challenges of economic restructuring. Based on case study material from Eastern Europe, the Islamic nations, Africa, China, and Latin America, this volume explores the significant contributions women make to the wealth and well-being of their families and nations. The contributors argue persuasively that women may hold the key to sustainable development, an increasingly critical issue at a time when policymakers are reconsidering the full costs and benefits of a growth-fixated development model. One of the first to embody the new “gender and development” paradigm, this book reports on research at the frontiers of knowledge and theory about the gendered outcomes of economic transformation, restructuring, and social change. By incorporating “voices from the South,” it makes a provocative addition to our understanding of the political economy of development and of the relationship between world ecology and the world economy.

Engendering Wealth And Well-being

Engendering Wealth And Well-being
Author: Rae Lesser Blumberg
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1995-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813321073

The new international division of labor and the imposition of structural adjustment on Third World countries has necessitated a reexamination of development policies and a reevaluation of the role of gender in their success or failure. Although women often bear the heaviest burden under structural adjustment, there is also considerable evidence of women being empowered through their responses to the challenges of economic restructuring.Based on case study material from Eastern Europe, the Islamic nations, Africa, China, and Latin America, this volume explores the significant contributions women make to the wealth and well-being of their families and nations. The contributors argue persuasively that women may hold the key to sustainable development, an increasingly critical issue at a time when policymakers are reconsidering the full costs and benefits of a growth-fixated development model.One of the first to embody the new “gender and development” paradigm, this book reports on research at the frontiers of knowledge and theory about the gendered outcomes of economic transformation, restructuring, and social change. By incorporating “voices from the South,” it makes a provocative addition to our understanding of the political economy of development and of the relationship between world ecology and the world economy.

The Global Social Change Reader

The Global Social Change Reader
Author: Lisa Meyer
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-08-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781516526666

The Global Social Change Reader: Development in an Unequal World explores development, globalization, and inequality within and between countries. This introductory anthology gives readers an overview of social change since World War II - change driven by public and private sector agents at the international, national, and local levels. The book is organized into five main sections. These cover developmental indicators, theories and critiques, the colonial and decolonization periods, institutions and sectors of development, views on prospects and progress, and specialized topics such as the environment, gender, health, and population. Readers will learn about theory, policy, and practices as viewed through diverse perspectives from academics and practitioners in the field. The Global Social Change Reader is well-suited to introductory courses in sociology, political science, and international relations. Lisa Meyer holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Emory University. Dr. Meyer is an associate professor of sociology and co-director of the Edgar Fellows Honor Program at the State University of New York, Geneseo where her research and teaching interests include globalization, gender and international development, and political economy. Joanna Kirk, who earned law degrees at Oxford University and the College of Europe in Belgium, is a lecturer, pre-law advisor, and legal studies coordinator at the State University of New York, Geneseo. She has worked with the United States Agency for International Development in law, development, and education.

Global Development and Human Rights

Global Development and Human Rights
Author: Paul Nelson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-05-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1487512627

From 2000 to 2015 the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized external aid to finance life-changing services in the global South. However, in doing so, the organization failed to meet the challenges often associated with human rights initiatives, which are to make underprivileged communities independently prosperous, equitable, and sustainable. In Global Development and Human Rights, Paul Nelson assesses the current thirty-year effort to make transformative changes in the global South by exploring how this disconnect from human rights weakened the MDGs reputation as a successful aid organization. To overcome the failings of the MDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were formed in 2016 with the intention of managing the issues fundamentally ignored by the MDGs. Drawing on twenty-five years of research on development goals, human rights, and the organizations that promote them, Nelson reasons that transformative change arises out of national and local movements, and shows how human rights can offer leverage and political support that help drive transformative national initiatives.

Global Leadership and Peace

Global Leadership and Peace
Author: Ijigban Daniel Oketa
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-12-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This is a guide to transformative change for sustainable development, global leadership and peace. It is perfect for: Individuals seeking personal growth and development. Socio-economic, Religious, and Political Leaders aiming to foster positive change and promote peace. National and International Organizations dedicated to sustainable development and global peace initiatives. Governments and Nations committed to fostering leadership and promoting peace on a global scale. The following are the contents of this innovative work: TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE: Explore strategies for personal growth and collective empowerment to drive positive change in society. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Learn about the principles and practices essential for achieving sustainable development goals and fostering a better world for future generations. LEADERSHIP PURPOSE OF HUMANITY: Understand the role of leadership in promoting peace, unity, and prosperity for all humanity. UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES: Discover timeless principles that guide transformative change and sustainable development efforts. NEW RELIGIOUS ORDER: Explore an innovative approach and principle to spirituality and religious practice aimed at promoting peace and unity among diverse people and religion. START A TEST: Take practical steps to implement transformative change initiatives and promote peace-building efforts in your community and beyond. Whether you're an individual seeking personal growth, a leader looking to drive positive change, or an organization dedicated to sustainable development and global peace, "GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AND PEACE" offers invaluable insights and strategies to help you make a difference in the world.

Reclaiming Value in International Development

Reclaiming Value in International Development
Author: Chloe Schwenke
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

International development has complex unintended effects on the realities of equity, rights, governance, and conflict in poor countries. Yet the myriad moral questions and quandaries encountered at every turn by development policymakers and practitioners are seldom thought about or articulated in a rigorous fashion. Instead, development specialists are trained to focus on the technocratic aspects of economic aid delivery and to disregard the moral issues raised by the adverse collateral consequences of aid programs for many people, communities, institutions, and environments in the developing countries. Reclaiming Value in International Development is the first book to bridge the divide between ethics and development from the perspective of a seasoned development practitioner who is also a trained ethicist. Schwenke formally enlarges the concept of development to include its moral dimension, to denote beneficial change that alleviates human misery and environmental degradation in poor countries and reinforces universal ethical norms such as human dignity, essential freedoms, social justice, peace, civic virtue, human flourishing, the common good, gender equality, safety and security, and participation and inclusion. She applies this ethically expanded concept to nine key topics in international development: education, leadership, procurement, food security, conflict, urbanization, gender identity and sexual orientation, deliberative participation, and the measurement of ethical performance. Throughout the book, the author draws on her thirty years of experience as a development practitioner in thirty poor countries around the world to give vivid real-life illustrations of the classic moral dilemmas in development ethics and to show how moral reasoning can clarify and resolve them.

Global Development and Human Rights

Global Development and Human Rights
Author: Paul J. Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2021
Genre: Human rights
ISBN: 9781487512613

"From 2000 to 2015 the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized external aid to finance life-changing services in the global South. However, in doing so, the organization failed to meet the challenges often associated with human rights initiatives, which are to make underprivileged communities independently prosperous, equitable, and sustainable. In Global Development and Human Rights, Paul J. Nelson assesses the current thirty-year effort to make transformative changes in the global South by exploring how this disconnect from human rights weakened the MDGs reputation as a successful aid organization. To overcome the failings of the MDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was formed in 2016 with the intention of managing the issues fundamentally ignored by the MDGs. Drawing on twenty-five years of research on development goals, human rights, and the organizations that promote them, Nelson reasons that transformative change comes from national and local movements, and shows how human rights can offer leverage and political support that help drive transformative national initiatives."--

The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development

The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development
Author: Rosalind Eyben
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781853398865

The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development critically examines the context and history of the current demands for results-oriented measurement and for evidence of value for money.This book will inspire development professionals and organizations to cultivate their political skills.