MDS 625: Gender & Development (elective)

This module is designed to introduce students to recent literature, theoretical questions and methodological issues concerning the study of gender and development. It will focus on changing notions of gender in African societies, on relations between the genders and on the differential access of women and men to resources and benefits.

Aim:

To familiarise students with socio-economic factors which constrain or facilitate women and men’s meaningful participation in development at the household, community, national, and global levels.

Objectives:

  • To enable students understand different gender concepts;
  • To equip students with skills that will help them identify where gender interventions may be made in social and economic development activities and systems
  • To enable students analyse the implications of significant gender differences for development planning and implementations.

Topics

  • Introduction to Gender Concepts and Terminology
  • Key Gender Concepts
  • Terminology commonly used  in Gender and Development
     
  • Social Construction of Gender
  • Theoretical Perspectives on Socialization
  • Gender Davison of Labour
     
  • Gender Theories and Their Relationships to Development
  • A Brief background of their Relationship to Development
  • Development of Feminism
  • Diversification and Division: Feminism and Gender
  • Brand of Feminism
     
  • Historical development in Gender and Development Approach
  • The meaning of Development
  • Why Gender is a Development Issue
  • Modernisation Theory
  • Dependency Theory
  • Women in Development (WID)
  • Women and Development (WAD)
  • Gender and Development (GAD)
  • Gender mainstreaming
  • Practical Gender Needs/Interests
  • Strategic Needs/Interests
     
  • Gender budgeting
  • Definition of gender budgeting
  • Background to gender budgeting
  • Gender budgeting as part of gender mainstreaming
     
  • Preparation of Gender-Sensitive Budgets
  • Prerequisites for gender budgeting
  • Stages for gender budgeting
  • Tools for gender budgeting
     
  • Gender budgeting at different levels
  • Central government
  • Sectoral/departmental
  • Regional/local government
  • Programme
  • A gender budget pilot initiative
     
  • Role of civil society in gender budgeting
  • Case studies from:
  • Civil society  influencing macroeconomics policy from gender perspective
  • Academics-international conferences, seminars, consultancy reports
     
  • Gender  as a human right issue
  • A review of international, regional and national instruments pertaining to gender issues
  • Human right and gender
  • Gender and law
  • Gender –Based violence
  • Violence against women
     
  • The Sociology-economic profile of women and men
  • Definitions of poverty
  • Measurement of poverty: The Poverty line
  • Identifying the poor
  • The feminization of poverty
  • Theories of poverty
  • Strategies to redress Gender-based poverty
     
  • Gender sensitivity in development, policy and planning
  • Planning
  • Development Planning
  • Past and present conceptualization of Development Planning
  • Social planning
  • The relationship between policy and planning
  • Inequality, dependency and social planning
  • Social policy and social change
  • Gender sensitivity/insensitivity of past and present policies at national and Internationals levels
  • Why gender planning
  • The role of information in strategies to mainstream
  • Gender issues in planning and policies
  • Checklists on policy environment
     
  • Methodology of an engendered social research
  • Relationship between gender theory and practice
  • Gender sensitive identification of research problems
  • Gender analysis and gender analytical frameworks
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