ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some of the analytic debates about gender mainstreaming, before showing how gender mainstreaming was interpreted as a policy-led set of moves in Kenya, and as a practice-led set of engagements in South Africa. It considers what relationships on terrains of a middle space were evident in the two countries, and reflect which form of relationship in which terrain supported gender equality enactments of policy. Gender mainstreaming has been the term used for the practices within institutions and organisations developed to give effect to the actions identified in the Beijing Platform of Action. The chapter distinguishes broadly between policy-led approach to institutionalisation, largely evident in Kenya, and a practice-led approach, documented more in South Africa. The chapter compares and contrasts these two approaches and considers their implications for global gender equality and education frameworks. It indicates how the interpretation of global gender equality policy focussed largely on interventions, or on interventions with some interactions.
