Members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) have long recognised that sustainable development must reflect the needs of women and men. These Guidelines from 1998 aim to advance gender issues in their development co-operation programmes, furthering the contribution of the DAC Expert...

It is assumed that self-help groups (SHGs) will play a larger role in its countribution towards improving women's health and empowerment as well as for achieving 'Millennium Development Goals' in developing countries. These assumptions are largely based on the global neo-liberal agenda which...