Comments for Contestations http://www.contestations.net Dialogues on Women's Empowerment Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:54:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on What is happening to Donor Support for Women’s Rights? by How Matters /  Hallowed Halls or Ghost Towns? http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-4/what-is-happening-to-donor-support-for-women%e2%80%99s-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-1385 How Matters /  Hallowed Halls or Ghost Towns? Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:33:23 +0000 http://www.contestations.net/?p=881#comment-1385 [...] dealing with the constraints of donor-controlled, project-based funding, which ties their hands and shuts down any possible processes that could result in local ownership and [...] [...] dealing with the constraints of donor-controlled, project-based funding, which ties their hands and shuts down any possible processes that could result in local ownership and [...]

]]> Comment on What is happening to Donor Support for Women’s Rights? by What’s happening to the rights-based approach? | Justice for all http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-4/what-is-happening-to-donor-support-for-women%e2%80%99s-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-1384 What’s happening to the rights-based approach? | Justice for all Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:26:19 +0000 http://www.contestations.net/?p=881#comment-1384 [...] wanted to share an incredible article I recently ran across, by Rosalind Eyben on Contestations: Dialogues on Women’s Empowerment: Recent years have seen a marked shift in official development discourse, with less emphasis on a [...] [...] wanted to share an incredible article I recently ran across, by Rosalind Eyben on Contestations: Dialogues on Women’s Empowerment: Recent years have seen a marked shift in official development discourse, with less emphasis on a [...]

]]> Comment on What is happening to Donor Support for Women’s Rights? by ottilia chikosha http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-4/what-is-happening-to-donor-support-for-women%e2%80%99s-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-1383 ottilia chikosha Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:49:45 +0000 http://www.contestations.net/?p=881#comment-1383 “If the quality of our existence is more than the quantity of what we consume and possess, then a concern for development must surely be a concern for a process that expands people’s ability to be and to do, as much as their possessions.” “If the quality of our existence is more than the quantity of what we consume and possess, then a concern for development must surely be a concern for a process that expands people’s ability to be and to do, as much as their possessions.”

]]> Comment on What is happening to Donor Support for Women’s Rights? by Gita Sen http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-4/what-is-happening-to-donor-support-for-women%e2%80%99s-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-1380 Gita Sen Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:07:56 +0000 http://www.contestations.net/?p=881#comment-1380 Ros, this is a sharp piece that picks up one of the major challenges women's orgns and social movements are facing. The rise of philanthro-capitalism is arguably responsible for the most insidious transformation of the agenda. The more so because who can be against 'technology' per se especially when it claims to be for the good. But it was ever so. Focusing on technology to the exclusion of social relationships has always been the way that progressive political agendas have been subverted. And it goes beyond this. Look at the current flavour of the month - randomised control trials to determine development policy with nary a word about power relations! one more reason to go back to the basics: it's about power and its transformation, stupid! Ros, this is a sharp piece that picks up one of the major challenges women’s orgns and social movements are facing. The rise of philanthro-capitalism is arguably responsible for the most insidious transformation of the agenda. The more so because who can be against ‘technology’ per se especially when it claims to be for the good. But it was ever so. Focusing on technology to the exclusion of social relationships has always been the way that progressive political agendas have been subverted. And it goes beyond this. Look at the current flavour of the month - randomised control trials to determine development policy with nary a word about power relations!

one more reason to go back to the basics: it’s about power and its transformation, stupid!

]]> Comment on What is happening to Donor Support for Women’s Rights?: Response to Rosalind Eyben by Deborah Eade http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-4/what-is-happening-to-donor-support-for-womens-rights-response-to-rosalind-eyben/comment-page-1/#comment-1378 Deborah Eade Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:13:12 +0000 http://www.contestations.net/?p=889#comment-1378 My daughter posted one of the GE video links on FB. She had just turned 18, which I assume is around the target audience for these videos - they obviously aren't aimed at middle-aged people who have already had a lifetime's involvement whether in the development industry and/or in the women's movement. She was the first to say she felt the message was a bit simplistic and had sent in some feedback. So if the target audience is not swallowing it uncritically but engaging with and discussing issues they might otherwise have waited for years to tumble to, or never done so, isn't that a good thing? My daughter posted one of the GE video links on FB. She had just turned 18, which I assume is around the target audience for these videos - they obviously aren’t aimed at middle-aged people who have already had a lifetime’s involvement whether in the development industry and/or in the women’s movement.

She was the first to say she felt the message was a bit simplistic and had sent in some feedback. So if the target audience is not swallowing it uncritically but engaging with and discussing issues they might otherwise have waited for years to tumble to, or never done so, isn’t that a good thing?

]]> Comment on Women’s Empowerment: What do Men have to do with it? Response by justina yesutor http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-3/womens-empowerment-what-do-men-have-to-do-with-it-response-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1258 justina yesutor Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:36:47 +0000 http://www.contestations.net/?p=689#comment-1258 This article has been a most insightful submission on the need to bring the 'other gender' (boys and men) in reconstructing maleness and femaleness in today's world. This article has been a most insightful submission on the need to bring the ‘other gender’ (boys and men) in reconstructing maleness and femaleness in today’s world.

]]> Comment on Technocrats vs Rights by Davos Man meets Girl http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-4/technocrats-vs-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-1257 Davos Man meets Girl Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:55:45 +0000 http://www.contestations.net/?p=899#comment-1257 [...] to women’s empowerment, and to development more broadly.Even our own local aspiring feminist weighs in, expanding on a discussion that took place here on the blog a few weeks ago:The debate over the [...] [...] to women’s empowerment, and to development more broadly.Even our own local aspiring feminist weighs in, expanding on a discussion that took place here on the blog a few weeks ago:The debate over the [...]

]]> Comment on What is happening to Donor Support for Women’s Rights? by Tweets that mention Contestations / Dialogues on Women’s Empowerment -- Topsy.com http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-4/what-is-happening-to-donor-support-for-women%e2%80%99s-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-1256 Tweets that mention Contestations / Dialogues on Women’s Empowerment -- Topsy.com Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:53:36 +0000 http://www.contestations.net/?p=881#comment-1256 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Anand Philip, Julie Cowdroy and Margo Pellegrino, Alanna Shaikh. Alanna Shaikh said: The end of the rights based approach for women? http://adjix.com/vnae [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Anand Philip, Julie Cowdroy and Margo Pellegrino, Alanna Shaikh. Alanna Shaikh said: The end of the rights based approach for women? http://adjix.com/vnae [...]

]]> Comment on Apparently Women are ‘at the Heart of Development’. But Feminism is nowhere to be seen. by Davos Man meets Girl http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-4/apparently-women-are-at-the-heart-of-development-but-feminism-is-nowhere-to-be-seen/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 Davos Man meets Girl Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:02:34 +0000 http://www.contestations.net/?p=886#comment-1254 [...] the rates of return from investing in a person as if she were a piece of machinery.Emily Esplen describes the dilemma posed by “the Girl Effect” Effect for women’s rights advocates:Our cause is being [...] [...] the rates of return from investing in a person as if she were a piece of machinery.Emily Esplen describes the dilemma posed by “the Girl Effect” Effect for women’s rights advocates:Our cause is being [...]

]]> Comment on What is happening to Donor Support for Women’s Rights? by Davos Man meets Girl http://www.contestations.net/issues/issue-4/what-is-happening-to-donor-support-for-women%e2%80%99s-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-1253 Davos Man meets Girl Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:02:15 +0000 http://www.contestations.net/?p=881#comment-1253 [...] the website girleffect.orgIn the new issue of the e-journal Contestations, Rosalind Eybens asks, What is Happening to Donor Support for Women’s Rights?:Recent years have seen a marked shift in official development discourse, with less emphasis on a [...] [...] the website girleffect.orgIn the new issue of the e-journal Contestations, Rosalind Eybens asks, What is Happening to Donor Support for Women’s Rights?:Recent years have seen a marked shift in official development discourse, with less emphasis on a [...]

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