ABSTRACT
In 1980 the first Overseas Development Administration policy document on ‘Women in Development (WID) Cooperation’ was presented to Parliament in the Netherlands. The most important policy statement on WID issues is that given in the Action Programme, ‘Women and Development’. Evaluations of women-oriented aid have therefore been relatively few, have covered a wide diversity of aid assistance and sectors, and have been based on a variety of exploratoryy methods. In academic research on women in development (WID), the focus in recent years has come to rest on the issue of gender relations rather than on women specifically as a category. The likelihood of such differentiation is indicated in a study on women’s livelihood systems, and the strategies adopted by women in different degrees of poverty. Gender-disaggregated project evaluations will contribute to the much-needed database on how various subgroups interrelate and affect each other and expand knowledge on the contributions which women are making to the development process.
