‘Doing gender’: impacts of local meaning making on gender mainstreaming in agricultural and climate change policy in Uganda

Abstract

Chapter 2. The Power of Narratives: Explaining Inaction on Gender Mainstreaming in Uganda's Agricultural and Climate Change Policy 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Gender mainstreaming in climate change policy making 2.3 Conceptual framework -Narrative policy analysis 2.4 Methodology 2.5 Mapping the narrative landscape of gender and climate change adaptation in Uganda 2.6 Narrative shifts: mapping narratological power in action 2.7 Discussion and conclusion Chapter 3. Discursive Translations of Gender-Mainstreaming Norms: The Case of Agricultural and Climate Change Policies in Uganda 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The domestication of international norms 3.3 Methodology 3.4 Findings 3.5 Discussion 3.6 Concluding remarks Contents xii Chapter 4. What does it Mean to Make a "Joint" Decision? Unpacking Intrahousehold Decision Making in Agriculture: Implications for Policy and Practice 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Background 4.3 Examining "joint decision making" in research for development 4.4 Research methodology 4.5 Results 4.6 Discussion 4.7 Conclusions Chapter 5. The Promise of Localization: Examining the Potential of "The Local" for Improving Gender Equality in Agriculture and Climate Change 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The rise of "the local" in international development 5.3 Methodology 5.4 Results 5.5 Discussion and conclusion Chapter 6. General Discussion and Conclusion 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Main findings: conclusions from the empirical chapters 6.3 Main findings: discussion of crosscutting themes 6.4 Theoretical contributions to the politics of gender equality and interpretive policy analysis 6.5 Limitations and avenues for future research 6.6 Policy recommendations and implications for practice 6.7 Concluding remarks

How gender mainstreaming plays out in Tanzania's climate‐smart agricultural policy: Isomorphic mimicry of international discourse

“…Research also points to policy-implementation gaps in the existing gender policy within Tanzania. Ampaire et al ( 2020) explored the extent of gender integration in agricultural and natural resource policies in Uganda and Tanzania, noting both an interpretation of gender issues as "women's issues," with significant "gender gaps" due to a lack of information, action, and strategy-particularly at lower governance levels (see also Acosta et al, 2015Acosta et al, , 2016. In Uganda specifically, Acosta et al (2019Acosta et al ( , 2021 show that top-down donor discourses of gender mainstreaming influence the development policies of Uganda, yet any transformative potential is limited through policy processes that are themselves gendered and premised on gender assumptions-resulting in variegated interpretations of gender shaped by local norms.…”