ABSTRACT
In 1995, an uncommon encounter between local Brazilian women’s organizations and international funding agency representatives took place. What was unusual was not the contact between the two parties per se; foundation program offi cers made frequent site visits to applicants and grantees, and members of the latter groups oft en traveled North in search of much-needed funds. But on this occasion they gathered at a beachfront hotel near Recife to discuss, not the minutiae of evaluations and grant applications, but broader questions around the politics of gender and development aid.
