Gender Analysis in International Development | Master's degree | Humanities & Culture | On Campus | 2 years | University of East Anglia | United Kingdom

This course incorporates a number of topics, including concepts used in: gender analysis of development; social justice; gender and power; poverty and inequality; and gendered approaches to social and human development such as: capabilities; social exclusion and human rights; and violence religion and identities; it offers training integrating theory and development policy experience which is both sectoral (e.g. education, land and property, credit and finance, rural livelihoods, sustainable development, environment and conservation, HIV/AIDS) and cross cutting, (e.g. migration, and male gender identities and masculinities in development); the course covers both the theory and practice of gender in development; it provides students with the skills and knowledge needed to work in an advisory capacity for organisations concerned with integrating gender awareness into their programmes and policies; it emphasises the development of research techniques and methods that are essential not only for further academic research, but also in practical development work and policy formulation, such as gender planning, and gender policy approaches such as mainstreaming.