INSTITUTIONALIZING WOMENS INTERESTS AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT

The Editorial introduces the Bulletin by outlining current approaches to analysing institutions and organizations as gendered terrains and p rocesses. These approaches can help explain persistent difficulties in institutionalizing incentive and accountability systems responsive to women's needs and interests in development organizations. The article outlines an approach to analysing development organizations according to gendered structures and practices as they are expressed through ge ndered incentive and accountability systems, gendered expressions of p ower, and gendered patterns of organizing space and time. The article also stresses the importance of situating any organizational study and strategies for organizational change within the broad institutional c ontext embracing the organization in question.