NGOs, gender and indigenous grassroots development

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dc.contributor.authorMomsen, Janet H.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialCaliforniaen
dc.coverage.spatialMexicoen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:31:10Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:31:10Zen
dc.date.issued2002en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the issues of the unheard voices of even well organized indigenous communities. The paper presents the issues lived during a project development between two indigenous communities (in California and Mexico) and small NGOs headed or facilitated by women. The project was developed to attract tourism, protect the environment, and improve the living standards of the displaced indigenous communities. The projects were headed by male community leaders and the NGO. In Mexico the leaders agreed to share the profits among male headed- households. Men wanted to spend it on a road, women consulted wanted to improve the village clinic. Gender equity, in terms of gender differences in needs, aims and ability to participate were not considered but indigenous women were expected to donate their time and effort to the project, to perform as well as providing the crafts to be sold for visitors. The communities saw the tourist activities as a reclamation and reaffirmation of a culture that has been almost lost, rather than as an exercise in local economic development. Nevertheless the NGOs woman consultant failed to question if the men in charge spoke for the women's interests. In California the NGO also failed to comply with their requests, attempting to introduce unwanted economic activities.en
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dc.identifier3329en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of International Development 14(6): 859-867en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/jid.930en
dc.identifier.issn0954-1748en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67446en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectEcotourismen
dc.subjectCommunity developmenten
dc.subjectIndigenous communityen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectNgosen
dc.subjectIndigenous communitiesen
dc.subjectGrassroots developmenten
dc.subjectGender equityen
dc.titleNGOs, gender and indigenous grassroots developmenten
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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