Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan: The Politics and Effects of Intervention

by Lina Abirafeh

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786445196
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	09/09/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lina AbiRafehis a global women’s rights expert, advisor and former aid worker with a decades-long track record in creating positive change for women in more than 20 countries around the world.  She speaks and publishes frequently on her experiences. She lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface     

1. An Agenda for Social Change     
2. Discourses on Chaddari Politics     
3. Gender and the Aid Apparatus     
4. Transplanting Democracy     
5. Afghaniyat and the Gender Order     
6. Maida, Maida     
7. This Is Afghanistan     
8. Violence in the Aftermath     
9. Insecurities and Ideological Occupations     

Dari Terminology     
Acronyms and Abbreviations     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index