Mannell, Jenevieve (2014) Adopting, manipulating, transforming: tactics used by gender practitioners in South African NGOs to translate international gender policies into local practice. Health and Place, 30. pp. 4-12. ISSN 1353-8292
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Abstract
This paper looks at what is lost and gained through the process of translating international policy from a global to a local space. It does this by sharing results from a multisite ethnographic study of gender practices in foreign-funded South African health organisations. This study identifies a number of tactics used by practitioners to deal with the funding constraints and unique knowledge systems that characterise local spaces, including: using policy to appeal to donors; merging gender with better resourced programmes; and redirecting funding allocations. These tactics point to how practitioners are adopting, manipulating and transforming international policies in order to suit their everyday working realities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/health-and-place |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. |
| Divisions: | Psychological and Behavioural Science |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JX International law |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2014 09:10 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2024 00:09 |
| Funders: | Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/59263 |
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