Development policy

One of Banúlacht’s Strategic aims is the promotion of critical engagement with feminist analyses in relation to women’s human rights issues.

We do this through: drafting position papers on identified policy issues; disseminating and promoting these analytical papers; and working in partnerships and strategic alliances with human rights, development and women’s organisations.

Our policy positions on specific issues (e.g. MDGs, CEDAW, Beijing Platform for Action and UNSCR 1325) are to be found under the various themes on the website and in our Gender and Development Bulletin.

Banúlacht’s analysis is based on Banúlacht's Feminist Principles  and also expressed in articles and chapters which have been written for various publications:

• “Gender and Development” in McCann, G. and McCloskey,S. eds, From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies, MacMillan.
   
• “Gender and Development Policy Approaches” in McCloskey, S., Development Reader, Centre for Global Education, Belfast.
   
• “Gender and the White Paper on Irish Aid” in Trócaire Development Review (2007)
   

• Looking at the Economy through Women’s Eyes: A Facilitator’s Guide for Economic Literacy. Published by Banúlacht.

For more information on the gender work and gender policy of Irish Aid, the Irish Aid is the Government of Ireland’s programme of assistance to developing countries, click here.

To download Irish Aid’s Gender Equality Policy, click here.

To download Irish Aid’s Annual Monitoring Report on Gender Equality 2010, click here.