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Has the move from WID to GAD approaches significantly altered project and policy tools for the empowerment of women? Discuss.
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Has the move from WID to GAD approaches significantly altered project and policy tools for the empowerment of women? Discuss. Formal policy approaches aiming to incorporate women into development activities began in the early 1970s. Over the past 30 years they have evolved on the basis of experience, review, and reformulation of objectives and strategies. By the 1980s the WID or 'women-in-development' approach was accepted and adopted internationally with an aim of "integrating women into global processes of economic, political and social growth and change" (Rathberger, 1990, p489). Development agencies and recipients of international development assistance adopted WID programs and projects with the hope of delivering development to women. Unfortunately WID failed to significantly narrow the gender gap. This led to a rethinking of WID and its approach to women and development. The 'gender-and-development' (GAD) approach emerged in the 1980s as an alternative to WID. Since gender is a relational concept...
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