Title: HOW TO AUGMENT GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES TO ACHIEVE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Abstract: Women play a major role in civil society and economic growth in rural areas of developing countries. However the role that women play and their position in meeting the challenges of Rural Development Programmes are quite dominant and prominent. Despite this, women have been left out of the formal structures for rural development programmes. The Millennium Declaration endorsed by the world’s governments in September 2000 recognized the importance of gender equality and mainstreaming to be the most effective methodology and tool to meet the needs of the goals and produce a successful end result. Unless the gender issues in development progammes are addressed, rural development cannot be achieved. Hence this paper examines the constraints facing by women’s complete integration into the rural development programmes and the mechanism to mitigate the situation. The important reasons to emphasize gender mainstream in the rural development programmes are effective policy and legislation, effective governance, visible presence of gender equality in the mainstream of society and diversity among women and men. If a problem is tackled merely at the technical level when it also has important underlying social and political dimensions, then the intervention strategy is likely to be ineffective. However, such issues can be addressed through making policies for equal access to and control over resources, increasing skills and knowledge, increasing participation in market oriented agriculture production, strengthening women’s decision making power, increasing accessibility of technology, improving wellbeing and easing workload etc.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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