ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews and acknowledges the emergence, development and increasing sophistication of that body of knowledge and action associated with integrating women and then consolidating the attention to gender in institutional core missions and strategies. It addresses the historical development of women and gender in integrating and mainstreaming terms. Global citizens need gendered summary outcomes about poverty reduction, assets and incomes, and good governance. Although global perspectives provide a framework for understanding the full dimensions of inequalities, global citizens have limited political spaces in which to share voices about regional and international trade agreements, capital flows and computerized trading. The obstacles to an ambitious gender mainstreaming strategy are both contextual and conceptual. In part, these are obstacles associated with transforming institutional missions and policy dialogues with gender tools that attend to the very heart of development as capacitating human beings: budgets and evaluation outcomes.
