Transforming Institutions: History & Challenges
This chapter is from the book “Institutionalising Gender”, published by the Royal Tropical Institute, and was initially written as an overview paper to introduce the international seminar on Transformation for Gender Justice and Organizational Change held in South Africa in mid-1998. The main intention is to offer perspectives on what has shaped the connections between gender justice and organizational/institutional transformation debates, what visions are emerging and what are some of the current salient concerns. The issues outlined in this chapter have been abstracted from experiences and writings from practitioners in various contexts. While remaining cognizant of contextual differences is that this collage of issues will provide a useful introduction to this book on gender mainstreaming where the assumptions, paradigms and practices from different contexts will be explored. Through identifying important linkages, new questions can be articulated to further work in the field of organizational change.
