Engendering Governance Institutions

Smita Mishra Panda is currently Professor of Development Studies with the Human Development Foundation, Bhubaneswar (Orissa). Prior to this, she has taught at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), Gujarat for eight years. She is trained as a Social Anthropologist and Regional Planner in Delhi University and the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (Thailand), with specialisation in gender and environment issues. She has worked as a researcher at the Gender and Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and also with United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Japan. Dr Mishra Panda has been a guest faculty with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Her current areas of interest are gender and governance, gender and integrated water resource management, and peri-urban natural resource and livelihood institutional concerns. She is also the India coordinator for CapNet (capacity building and networking in integrated water resource management), focusing primarily on gender and institutional concerns. Widely travelled, she has published in several national and international journals.

• Preface1: ENGENDERING GOVERNANCE: CONCEPTUALISATIONEngendering Governance Institutions: An Introduction - Smita Mishra PandaGender Mainstreaming, Equity and Good Governance - Kumud SharmaII: STATE, GENDER AND GOVERNANCEModernity with Democracy?: Gender and Governance in the People’s Planning Campaign - Keralam J DevikaRole of Grassroots Women`s Networks in Engendering Governance: Case of Mahila Samakhya, Karnataka - Sangeetha Purushothaman and Suchitra VedanthHuman Rights, Panchayats and Women - Bidyut MohantyCity Consultation as an Approach to Gender Responsive Local Urban Governance: An Experience from UMP-Asia - Girija ShresthaRedefining an Agenda for Governance: Gender and Policy Planning - Meera VelayudhanIII: MARKET, GENDER AND GOVERNANCEEngendering Market Mechanisms - Nirmala BanerjeeLinking the Informal Sector with Mainstream Markets: Case of SEWA Self Employed Women’s AssociationIV: CIVIL SOCIETY, GENDER AND GOVERNANCEWomen’s Movement and Governance: Issues and Challenges - Indu AgnihotriEngendering Governance: A Preliminary Enquiry into Formal and Informal Institutions - Ratna M SudarshanEngendering Cooperative Governance: Case of Women Dairy Cooperative Societies in Gujarat - Smita Mishra PandaV: ASSESSMENT OF GENDER SENSITIVITY IN GOVERNANCEGender Audits as an Input to Engender Governance - Vibhuti PatelEngendering Governance in Panchayati Raj Institutions: Insights from Karnataka - N Shantha MohanIndex

The wide range of areas covered by this edited work makes it crucial for meeting the challenges posed to women in the 21st century. This volume is essential for all development workers, students, academicians, administrators, policy planners, social activists, women’s studies scholars, decision makers in all spheres engaged in women’s empowerment and human development.