Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan
The Politics and Effects of Intervention
Lina
Abirafeh
ISBN
978-0-7864-4519-6
27 photos, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
232pp.
softcover
2009
Available for immediate shipment
Description
Afghanistan has become home to one of the largest gender-focused aid interventions in the aftermath of 9/11, with foreign aid agencies using Afghan women as a barometer of social change and political progress. Through the lens of gendered aid intervention, this book seeks to understand how the promise of freedom has largely fallen short--for both men and women. Topics include the tenuous relationship between social indicators and aid dynamics; the advancing of the gender agenda through Afghanistan’s 2005 parliamentary elections; and the journey from policy formulation to interpretation to implementation through the voices of policy-makers, policy implementers, NGO leaders, Afghanistan specialists and ordinary Afghan women and men.
About the Author
Lina Abirafeh has worked with issues of gender and development in a variety of countries and contexts, including Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea. She received a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in 2008 and has published widely on her experiences.
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