Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society First Edition

The wide range of areas covered by this edited work makes it crucial for meeting the challenges posed to women in the 21^st century. This volume is essential for all development workers, students, academicians, administrators, policy planners, social activists, women’s studies scholars, decision makers in all spheres engaged in women’s empowerment and human development.

— Economic & Political Weekly

[The] introduction by Smita Mishra Panda is copious and meticulous…. She attempts to sketch the historical context in which the concept originated and assumed significance…. The volume makes a significant contribution in terms of conceptualizing ‘engendering institutions’ which is considered crucial from the viewpoint of institutionalising democratic gender politics within the system of governance at various levels.

— Sociological Bulletin

The volume highlights the concerns, challenges, and strategies in a well-articulated manner. It makes a significant contribution to this growing area of research and attempts to produce a framework for assessing and analyzing engendered governance….This volume provides new and exciting ways on how issues of gender and governance can usefully be approached. This book is an insightful reading to all those interested in vital questions about gender mainstreaming strategies, its implementation, and challenges. — Gender, Technology and Development

Smita Mishra Panda is currently Professor of Development Studies with the Human Development Foundation, Bhubaneswar (Orissa). Prior to this, she has taught at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), Gujarat for eight years. She is trained as a Social Anthropologist and Regional Planner in Delhi University and the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (Thailand), with specialisation in gender and environment issues. She has worked as a researcher at the Gender and Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and also with United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Japan. Dr Mishra Panda has been a guest faculty with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Her current areas of interest are gender and governance, gender and integrated water resource management, and peri-urban natural resource and livelihood institutional concerns. She is also the India coordinator for CapNet (capacity building and networking in integrated water resource management), focusing primarily on gender and institutional concerns. Widely travelled, she has published in several national and international journals.