ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the pioneering international management development programme for women from ‘developing countries’ created and launched in 1991 in conjunction with the Royal Institute of Public Administration (now RIPA International). It outlines the development and organization of the course, and describes the processes through which the programme has generated a model of management development in which theory and experience are linked together. This model makes visible the gendered relations of power within the Civil Service, and then explores strategies to intervene and change both the institution itself and the gendered outcomes of the service it delivers.
