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Can an Aid Bureaucracy Empower Women? The Case of Sida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2019

Karin Himmelstrand
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At the NGO African Women's Task Force Meeting in Nairobi in April 1988, Sara Longwe suggested that the “main problem in Africa is to shift women's development above the welfare level in the face of resistance from male dominated government bureaucracies.” She also maintained that ”… women's welfare is not likely to be much improved until the affected women themselves achieve control in such areas as control over factors of production and distribution of income and benefits… This dimension is concerned with women's power to control their own lives and become independent and self-reliant — both individually and collectively — on equal terms with men. Equality in control is the ultimate objective of the process of empowerment.“

Type
FOCUS: Beyond Nairobi: Women’s Politics and Policies in Africa Revisited
Information
African Issues , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , Summer 1989 , pp. 37 - 43
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1989 

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Notes

1 Longwe, Sara, “From Welfare to Empowerment,” paper presented at the NGO African Women's Task Force Meeting, Nairobi, April 11-15, 1988.Google Scholar

2 “Women's Dimension in Developing Assistance.” SIDA's Plan of Action, SIDA, Stockholm, May 1985.

3 The Peripheral Centre: Swedish Assistance to Africa in Relation to Women, An Assessment, SIDA, 1985.

4 Longwe, op. cit.

5 Ibid.

6 Qureshi, Moeen, The World Bank and NGOs: New Approaches, World Bank Report, July 1988.Google Scholar