Discursive translations of gender mainstreaming norms: The case of agricultural and climate change policies in Uganda

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cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Development Research Centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationHumboldt Universitat zu Berlinen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Queenslanden
cg.contributor.affiliationOpus Insightsen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierMariola Acosta: 0000-0003-4456-1283
cg.creator.identifierEdidah Ampaire: 0000-0003-3679-8360
cg.creator.identifierLaurence Jassogne: 0000-0002-2106-5001
cg.edition74en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.02.010en
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII-FP1_PACCA
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII-FP1_PACCA2
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0277-5395en
cg.journalWomen's Studies International Forumen
cg.subject.ccafsPRIORITIES AND POLICIES FOR CSAen
cg.volume74en
dc.contributor.authorAcosta, Mariolaen
dc.contributor.authorBommel, Severine vanen
dc.contributor.authorWessel, Margit vanen
dc.contributor.authorAmpaire, Edidah L.en
dc.contributor.authorJassogne, Laurence T.P.en
dc.contributor.authorFeindt, Peteren
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-12T13:26:02Zen
dc.date.available2019-03-12T13:26:02Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/100258
dc.titleDiscursive translations of gender mainstreaming norms: The case of agricultural and climate change policies in Ugandaen
dcterms.abstractWhile the international norm on gender mainstreaming, UN-backed since 1995, has been widely adopted in national policies, gender inequalities are rarely systematically addressed on the ground. To explain this limited effectiveness, this paper takes a discourse analytical perspective on gender policy and budgeting, with a focus on the translation of the international norm into domestic norms and policies. An in-depth, inductive analysis of 107 policy documents in Uganda examines how the gender mainstreaming norm has been translated at three administrative levels: national, district, sub-county. The analysis finds five processes that reduce the norm's transformational potential: neglecting gender discourse, gender inertia, shrinking gender norms, embracing discursive hybridity and minimizing budgets. Overall, gender mainstreaming largely stopped at the discursive level, and often paradoxically depoliticized gender. The findings explain why gender mainstreaming might be helpful but not sufficient for advancing gender equality and suggest additional focus on promising practices, women's rights movements and stronger monitoring.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAcosta M, van Bommel S, van Wessel M, Ampaire E, Jassogne L, Feindt PH. 2019. Discursive translations of gender mainstreaming norms: The case of agricultural and climate change policies in Uganda. Women's Studies International Forum 74:9-19.en
dcterms.extent9-19en
dcterms.issued2019-05
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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