The South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG) at North South University (NSU) on Saturday organized a virtual launching program of a book published by Palgrave Macmillan.
The book, titled “Gender Mainstreaming in Politics, Administration and Development in South Asia”, is the outcome of an international conference held in 2017 on the said topic at NSU, says a press release.
The book approaches gender mainstreaming from policy-and-governance perspective and explore government initiatives to promote gender mainstreaming, challenges and results of those initiatives.
The book includes chapters on Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Prof Ishtiaq Jamil from the University of Bergen, of Norway spoke on behalf of the editorial panel, which was followed by the reflection from the authors.
Prof Ragnhild Louise Muriaas, deputy dean (research) at the University of Bergen, Norway, Prof Krishna Menon, dean, School of Human Studies at the Dr BR Ambedkar University, Delhi, India and Nazneen Ahmed, senior research fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, were present as speakers.
Discussants of the program shed the light upon the diverse topics and broad range of issues related to gender mainstreaming that the book covered.
They said,the chapters of the book focus on the process of incorporation of gender issues in policy formulation and governance and the challenges to implement those policy and their implications.
The authors have presented their argument with empirical evidences and used varied framework to analyze gender mainstreaming at the micro and macro levels in the book.
Prof Atiqul Islam, vice-chancellor of North South University, chaired the event.
