Assessing the Gender Impact of Development Projects

Gender impact assessment is a way to estimate the expected impact of an intervention, such as a development project, on women, and to what extent the specific interests and needs of various categories of women will be affected. Such assessment provides information relevant to project planning, and should preferably take place before a project begins. This book presents three case studies from Burkina Faso, India and Bolivia in which this method was used, plus an introduction to the methodology, conclusions regarding its use, and the lessons to be learned from the studies.

Vera Gianotten trained as an anthropologist and sociologist; her PhD. is in rural sociology. She has worked in Latin America for fourteen years and has, since 1989, been a senior researcher in the Department of Agriculture and Enterprise Development within the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. She has published a variety of books and articles on her research.