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PROGRAM

Women in Development:
A Decade of Experience


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Women in Development:
A Decade of Experience



October 13, 14, 15, 1983
Capital Hilton
Washington, D.C.




Sponsored by the
Association for Women in Development






ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President:
Jane Knowles
Land Tenure Center
University of Wisconsin

Vice President, Publications:
Margaret Fahs
Assistant Director
International Programs & Studies Office
National Association of State Universities
and Land-Grant Colleges

Vice President, Annual Meeting;
Mary Hill Rojas
Office of Women in World Development
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Vice President, Annual Meeting:
Sarah Tinsley
Director
Women in Development/PPC
Agency for International Development

Secretary:
Virginia Caples
Associate Dean, School of Agriculture
Division of Home Economics
Alabama A&M University

Treasurer:
Ellen Fenogllo
Center for Women in Development
South-East Consortium for International Development



The Association for Women in Development is
grateful to all of the people and organizations that
supported the Association and this conference. In
particular we thank our benefactors:
The National Association of State Universities
and Land-Grant Colleges
The Johnson Foundation
The South-East Consortium for International
Development
The Midwest Universities Consortium on
International Activities
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Asia Foundation






Welcome.


It is my very great pleasure and privilege, on behalf
of the officers and the Board of Directors of the
Association of Women in Development, to welcome
you to our first national conference. We have tried to
organize an exciting and challenging program
whose purposes are both to inform and to recognize
the very real accomplishments of our first Decade of
Development. Those accomplishments include:
the achievements of the United States Congress,
beginning with the Percy Admendment and
extending through Title XII of the Foreign Assistance
Act;
the activities of the United States Agency for
International Development, from the creation of the
Office of Women in Development, through its
support of the programs of that office, to the recently
adopted Policy Paper;
the many programs of the United Nations
system, publicly recognized in its promulgation of a
Decade for Women and the conferences in Mexico
City, Copenhagen,-and Nairobi;
the research and technical assistance activities
of the United States university community, which are
organized so as to tackle the long-term tasks of
training and institution-building;
the myriad activities of the Private Voluntary
Organizations, with their emphasis on working
directly with the people they serve;
the dedicated service of individuals, women and
men, too numerous to list fully, but certainly
beginning with Ester Boserup. Within the group
which founded the Association for Women in
Development, and as an indication of our strengths
within the government, the universities and the
private sector, we can note Arvonne Fraser, Irene
Tinker, and Willie Campbell.

So much already done, and so much left to be
done. We hope that this conference can both
illuminate the lessons of the past and highlight the
needs of the future by providing a setting for the
whole range of Women in Development
constituencies to come together and share with one
another their experiences and knowledge.

I challenge each of you to become an active
participant in that dialogue.

Welcome.

Jane B. Knowles
University of Wisconsin-Madison






PROGRAM



Women in Development:
A Decade of Experience







Thursday, October 13, 1983

6 pm-7 pm Reception (no host), Congressional
Room

Welcome Banquet

Thursday, October 13 7 p.m. Presidential Ballroom

Chair: Jane B. Knowles, President,
Association for Women in Development
Welcome: M. Peter McPherson, Administrator,
Agency for International Development
Comments: Charles H. Percy, Chairman, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Speaker: Margaret Snyder,
Voluntary Fund for the United Nations
Decade for Women


3 pm-8 pm

4 pm-7 pm

4 pm-6:15 pm





Friday, October

8 am-9 pm

9 am-6 pm

9 am-8 pm


Registration, Upper Lobby

Exhibits, Upper Lobby

Films, Michigan Room





14, 1983

Registration, Upper Lobby

Exhibits, Upper Lobby

Films, Michigan Room

4






9 am-10:30 am Plenary, Congressional Room
FOOD AND SELF SUFFICIENCY

11 am-12:30 pm Plenary, Congressional Room
ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF INCLUDING
WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT

1:30 pm-3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions I
FOOD AND SELF SUFFICIENCY,
Congressional Room
LINKING POLICY TO
IMPLEMENTATION IN DONOR
PROGRAMS, California Room
USING VOLUNTEERS IN
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
Gallery Room
FORMAL AND NONFORMAL
EDUCATION FOR GIRLS IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES,
Pan-American Room
INCREASING ECONOMIC
PRODUCTIVITY OF RURAL WOMEN,
Ohio Room
WOMEN IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE:
RECENT RESEARCH (I), New York
Room
PASTORAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
AND WOMEN, South American Room
PROJECT ADVISEMENT IN
UNIVERSITY SETTINGS,
Massachusetts Room

3:45 pm-5:45 pm Concurrent Sessions II
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ACTIVITIES AT SELECTED
LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES AND
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Congressional
Room
WOMEN IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE:
RECENT RESEARCH (II), New York
Room
DELIVERING ASSISTANCE AND
DEVELOPING ALLIES, THE PRIVATE
VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION
APPROACH TO WOMEN IN
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, South
American Room






LINKING RESEARCH AND POLICY,
THE CASE OF HOUSEHOLD
RESEARCH, California Room

WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICAN AND
CARIBBEAN AGRICULTURAL
DEVELOPMENT: RECENT RESEARCH,
Pan American Room

WOMEN, FOOD, AND HISTORY,
Caucus II
NUTRITION AS A DEVELOPMENT
ISSUE, Ohio Room
MICRO-ENTERPRISE:
MODERNIZATION OF TRADITION,
Gallery Room
CREDIT: WHAT WORKS AND WHY,
Massachusetts Room

5:45 pm-8 pm MARKETPLACE, Presidential Ballroom
Cocktail Reception and information
exchange, tickets $3, list of
organizations participating on page 42.


Saturday, October 15, 1983

8 am-noon Registration, Upper Lobby

9 am-1 pm Exhibits, Upper Lobby

8:30 am-1 pm Films, Michigan Room

8:30 am-10:30 am Concurrent Sessions III
WOMEN AND MODERNIZATION IN
ASIA: RECENT RESEARCH,
Congressional Room
HOW TO INTEGRATE WOMEN IN
DEVELOPMENT ISSUES INTO THE
UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM,
Massachusetts Room
WOMEN OF THE FOURTH WORLD,
Executive Suite
HOW WOMEN MOBILIZE TO ACTION,
Gallery Room
EVALUATION PROCESSES AND THE
STATE OF THE ART, South American
Room






FRONTIERS OF FOOD-FUEL POLICY
AND PROGRAMMING, New York Room
SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT,
Senate Room
CAREER PLANNING IN
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
Pan-American Room

10:45 am- Concurrent Sessions IV
12:45 pm
12:45 pm WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT:
ADVANCEMENT OF A DISCIPLINE,
South American Room
POPULATION ISSUES AS THEY
RELATE TO WOMEN, Pan-American
Room
PERENNIAL PROBLEMS: IMPROVING
MACRO-LEVEL DATA ON WOMEN,
New York Room
TITLE XII AND WOMEN IN
DEVELOPMENT: THE OPPORTUNITIES
AND ISSUES, Massachusetts Room
NEW APPROACHES TO WOMEN IN
DEVELOPMENT, Gallery Room
DESIGN AND IMPLICATIONS OF
NONFORMAL ADULT LEARNING,
Congressional Room
WORKSHOP ON THE TRAINING
PROCESS: A POINT OF ENTRY TO
GRASSROOTS GROUPS, Executive
Suite
1985 WORLD CONFERENCE ON THE
UNITED NATIONS DECADE FOR
WOMEN: NAIROBI, Senate Room

1 pm-2:30 pm Closing Plenary and Lunch,
Congressional Room
THE NEXT DECADE

3 pm The Association of Women in
Development Business Meeting and
Election Results, Congressional Room

The plenary sessions are outlined and speakers identified
beginning on page 8.

Each concurrent session is described in a separate page
at the end of this summary.






Plenary Session
FOOD AND SELF SUFFICIENCY


Friday, October 14
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Congressional Room


Major presentations explore the relationships between
macro food security issues and micro problems of women
on the farm or in the household. If the growing body of
research on women in development is to have a policy
impact, it is essential that researchers and practitioners
specifically express themselves in macro policy terms. At
the same time, policy makers need to understand how
national and international choices affect both individual
women and men and their families at the micro level. The
afternoon round-table participants will comment on these
presentations and indicate how the issues raised relate to
their own programs.


Session organizer: Irene Tinker

Chair: Irene Tinker
Equity Policy Center

Speakers: Ruth Finney
United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization
E.T. York
Chairman
Board for International Food and
Agricultural Development/AID






Plenary Session
ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF INCLUDING WOMEN IN
DEVELOPMENT


Friday, October 14
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Congressional Room


Women around the world are involved in economic
activities. Those activities might not be counted by the
standard economic measurement devices, but those
activities none-the-less are real. Recognizing the reality of
women's roles and striving to improve their productivity will
increase the economic output of a country and provide
more buyers and sellers in the world market.


Session organizer: Sarah Tinsley

Speaker: Per Pinstrup-Andersen
International Food Policy Research
Institute






Closing Plenary and Luncheon


Saturday, October 15
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Congressional and Senate Room


There is no debate that the lot of women in developing
countries needs improvement. Over the past 10 years
some improvement has been made, while many women
are in more desperate situations than ever. Most
international agencies and donor countries have begun to
address this crucial situation. What are the policy and
research needs for the next decade if women are to be
more than bystanders in the development process?


Session organizer: Mary Rojas

Speaker: Rounaq Jahan
Integration of Women in Development
Programme
United Nations Asian and Pacific
Development Centre and Faculty of
Policy Science
University of Dhaka

Closing Arvonne Fraser
Comments: The Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs






Concurent Session
LINKING POLICY TO IMPLEMENTATION IN DONOR
PROGRAMS


Friday, October 14
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
California Room


An account of the process and procedures used by
different donor agencies to translate policy into concrete
action. Research on aspects of this implementation
process is also discussed.


Session organizer: Kathleen Cloud

Chair: Kathleen Staudt
University of Texas-El Paso

Presenters: Elizabeth McAllister
Canadian International Development
Agency
Ulla Olin
United National Development Program
Sarah Tinsley
Office of Women in Development
Agency for International
Development

Respondent: Danielle Colombo
Italian Association for Women in
Development






Concurrent Session
USING VOLUNTEERS IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT


Friday, October 14
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Gallery Room


Volunteer representatives from the United States and Latin
America discuss developing projects of benefit to women's
economic lives in the Caribbean and Latin America.


Session organizer: Martha Lewis

Chair: Martha Lewis
Partners of the Americas

Panelists: Karen Krich
Peace Corps
Graciela Llano del Puerto
Partners of the Americas
Paraguay-Kansas
Helen Picard
Volunteers in Technical Assistance
(VITA)
Meridith F. Smith
Partners of the Americas
Paraguay-Kansas






Concurrent Session
FORMAL AND NONFORMAL EDUCATION FOR GIRLS IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES


Friday, October 14
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Pan-American Room


Limited educational opportunities for young girls
dramatically affects: their future roles as mothers; their
income potential; their fertility; and their countries overall
development. The panelists focus on these issues while
exploring the utility of formal and nonformal educational
techniques.


Session organizer: Marilyn Richards

Chair: Nadia Youssef
UNICEF

Panelists: Mary Chamie
Agency for International Development
Dean Jamison
Health and Nutrition Department
World Bank
Amy Mellencamp
International Centre for Research on
Women
Isabel Nieves
International Centre for Research on
Women






Concurrent Session
INCREASING ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY OF RURAL
WOMEN


Friday, October 14
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Ohio Room


Panelists review project design and evaluation. Projects
presented have either a primary or integrated goal of
increasing real income of rural women in developing
countries. The session identifies the key factors in future
project planning which will cause expanded and sustained
economic productivity among women in developing
countries.


Session organizers: Barbara Thomas and Marilyn Richards

Chair: Barbara Thomas
International Development Program
Clark University

Panelists: Marty Chen
Oxfam-America
Libbet Crandon
Pathfinder Fund
Maryanne Dulansey
Consultants in Development






Concurrent Session
WOMEN IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE: RECENT
RESEARCH (I)


Friday, October 14
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
New York Room


This is the one of two panels exploring the recent research
from Africa.


Session organizer: Barbara Knudsen

Chair: Rebecca Polland
Rutgers University


Presenters:
Gloria Braxton



Jean Due
Department of Agriculture
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Nadine Horenstein


Papers:
"Non Formal Training
Programs for Rural Women in
Nigeria"
"Women's Financial
Contribution to Household
Income in Zambia"

"Development Planning and
Women's Contribution to
Household and Agricultural
Production"






Concurrent Session
PASTORAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND WOMEN


Friday, October 14
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
South American Room


The four panelists have all worked with pastoral or
agro-pastoral systems in Lebanon, Sudan, Upper Volta and
Niger. The discussant has been directing and analyzing
socio-economic data from the Integrated Livestock Project
in Niger. All of the panelists will be looking at the
productive roles of women and the impact of development
processes on these roles. The papers dealing with Africa
focus on specific development projects, while the paper on
Lebanon examines the changing political, ecological and
economic conditions affecting a traditional nomadic
lifestyle in the Middle East.


Session organizer Helen K. Henderson

Chair: Helen K. Henderson
Bureau of Applied Research in
Anthropology
University of Arizona

Speakers: Discussant:
Sandra Blanchard Ralph H. Faulkingham
Anthropology Department Anthropology Department
University of University of
Massachusetts-Amherst Massachusetts-Amherst
Jan Noel
International Program
Development
Washington State University
Bonnie Ann Stewart
Center for International
Programs
New Mexico State
University






Concurrent Session
PROJECT ADVISEMENT IN UNIVERSITY SETTINGS


Friday, October 14
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Room


Project Advisement manuals, "Working with International
Development Projects: A Guide for Women in
Development" is the basis for the presentations. The
experienced project advisement staff will involve attendees
in short role playing exercises.

Session organizer: Mary Hill Rojas

Participants: Pat Barnes-McConnell
Bean/Cowpea CRSP
Michigan State University
Mary Joy Pigozzi
Nonformal Education Information
Center
Michigan State University






Concurrent Session
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AT
SELECTED 1890 LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES AND
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE


Friday, October 14
3:45 pm-5:45 pm
Congressional Room


This panel surveys some of the successes and
disappointments in women in development activities; looks
at ways to tap funding, both campus and external
resources; and discusses ways to increase involvement
and support of women in development activities. Focus is
on structural and methodological approaches to involving
women in development activities on campus as well as
projects in the field. Cases discussed are from Africa and
the Caribbean.


Session Organizer: Eloise Carter

Moderator: Eloise Carter
Tuskegee Institute

Presenters: George Cooper
Tuskegee Institute
Patricia Harris
John A. Andrew Community Hospital
Ardine Kirchhofer
Lincoln University
Julia Miller
Virginia State University
Jenice Rankins
Tuskegee Institute






Concurrent Session
WOMEN IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE: RECENT
RESEARCH (II)


Friday, October 14
3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
New York Room


Recent research from Africa is presented focusing on the
countries of Uganda, Upper Volta, Zaire, and Ghana.


Session organizer: Barbara Knudsen


Chair:


Virginia M. Hammell


Presenters:
Jeanne-Marie Col
Public Administration
Program
Sangamon State
University
Dorothy Dee Vellenga
Muskingum College
Linda Garberson


Catherine Newburry
Government Department
Wesleyan University


Papers:
"When Women Produce and
Market Cooperatively:
Incentives and Constraints in
Uganda"

"Food as a Cash Crop for
Women Farmers in Ghana"
"Promotion of Women's
Income Generating Activities
in Upper Volta"
"From Plantains to Cassava:
Women, Work, and Food in
Eastern Zaire"






Concurrent Session
DELIVERING ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPING ALLIES,
THE PRIVATE VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION APPROACH
TO WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS


Friday, October 14
3:45 pm-5:45 pm
South American Room


It is a long and delicate thread from research findings,
project identification, design, and implementation to
evaluation and an assessment of impact. Often the end
results is a tangled knot never to be unraveled to offer a
solution'to the original problem.
This long and frustrating process often leads to the
question: what happened to the intended beneficiaries?
The panel will analyze this question through a review of
four to six African and Asian projects, tracing each from
research and theoretical concept through implementation
and evaluation. Panelists will focus on four questions: 1)
how often do intended beneficiaries get lost in the
technical assistance delivery process and why; 2) who
speaks for the beneficiaries we aim to serve; 3) how can
researchers and policy analysts be most helpful to
practitioners and vice versa; 4) the private voluntary
organization process: does it make a difference.


Session organizer: Vivian Lowrey Derryck

Chair: Vivian Lowrey Derryck
National Council of Negro Women

Panelists: Beverly Bruce
Howard University
Perdita Huston
Author, Third World Women Speak Out
Olive Sampson
National Council of Negro Women
Elise Smith
Overseas Education Fund






Concurrent Session
LINKING RESEARCH AND POLICY, THE CASE OF
HOUSEHOLD RESEARCH


Friday, October 14
3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
California Room


Initially, policy makers and economists expressed interest
in the intra-household allocation of resources and benefits
primarily for equity reasons. More recent analysis has
highlighted the efficiency issues; differential access to
resource effects productivity. As work in this area
progresses, it promises to cause major revisions of
micro-level analysis in areas such as farming systems,
nutrition planning, human capital development, and
demography. Recent work in Nepal, Philippines,
Zimbabwe, and Kenya is reviewed for methodology and
policy implications.


Session organizer: Kathleen Cloud

Presenters: Meena Acharya
University of Wisconsin
Louise Fortmann
University of California-Berkeley






Concurrent Session
WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: RECENT RESEARCH


Friday, October 14
3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Pan-American Room


Recent research is presented focusing on Latin America
and the Caribbean.


Session organizer: Barbara Knudsen

Chair: Marcia Wiss
Anderson and Pendleton


Presenters:
Elsa Chaney
Equity Policy Center


Kathleen M. Dewalt
Department of Behavioral
Science
College of Medicine
University of Kentucky
Mary Futrell
Department of Home
Economics
Mississippi State
University
Rosalie H. Norem
Department of Family
Environment
Iowa State University
Kathleen Staudt
Department of Political
Science
University of Texas at El
Paso


Papers:
"Scenarios of Hunger:
Migration, Decline of
Smallholder Agriculture and
the Feminization of Farming"
"Regional Variation in the
Role of Women in Agriculture
in Southern Honduras"



"The Effect of Cropping
Systems on Health of Women
and Children in Southern
Honduras"

"Economic Contribution of
Women to Family Small
Farming System's Production
in Central America"
"Planned-Centered Approach
to Research on Women in
Mainstream Development
Projects"






Concurrent Session
WOMEN, FOOD, AND HISTORY


Friday, October 14
3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Caucus II


A workshop on integrating issues of women and food into
formal and nonformal education using historical and
contemporary examples.

Session organizer: Mary Hill Rojas
Leader:
Susan Hill Gross
Upper Midwest Women's History Center






Concurrent Session
NUTRITION AS A DEVELOPMENT ISSUE


Friday, October 14
3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Ohio Room


This session will review research, policy, and programming
as they relate to new approaches to evaluating the impact
of development on nutrition, and to integrating nutrition in
more general development programs.


Session organizer: Irene Tinker

Chair: John G. Merriam
Department of Political Science
Bowling Green State University

Panelists: H.C. Bittenbender
Department of Horticulture
Michigan State University
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
International Food Policy Research
Institute
Carol Waslien
Department of Home Economics
Hunter College
Christine S. Wilson
Department of Epidemiology and
International Health
University of California






Concurrent Session
MICRO-ENTERPRISE: MODERNIZATION OF TRADITION


Friday, October 14
3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Gallery Room


Women have traditionally produced handicrafts or food for
their families use; surplus was traded for other goods or
services. Modernization has destroyed markets for some
commodities but created demand for others. Panelists
explore these changes in Ecuador, and Egypt, and
through a comparative study of street foods.


Session organizer: Irene Tinker

Chair: Millidge Walker
American University

Panelists: Monique Cohen
Equity Policy Center
Diane de Terra
Development Anthropologist
Diana de Trevelle
University of California at Berkeley
Caroline Moser
Bartlett School of Architecture and
Planning
University College London






Concurrent Session
CREDIT: WHAT WORKS AND WHY


Friday, October 14
3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Massachusetts Room


There are innumerable myths and more misunderstandings
surrounding the women and credit aspect of development.
This session both dispells those myths and articulates why
projects have worked or failed. The panelists outline how
the provision of credit can be used in projects in which
women both benefit from and have control over financial
resources. Each of the panelists has substantial experience
developing, running, and assessing programs with
developing country women involving the use of credit.


Session organizer: Marilyn Richards

Chair: Barbara Reno
Chase Manhattan Bank

Panelists: Olubanke Y.K. Akerele
Voluntary Fund for the United Nations
Decade for Women
Suzanne Smith Saulniers
Ford Foundation
Michaela Walsh
Women's World Banking






Concurrent Session
FOOD AND SELF SUFFICIENCY


Friday, October 14
1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Congressional Room


If the growing body of research on women in development
is to have a policy impact, it is essential that researchers
and practitioners specifically express themselves in macro
policy terms. At the same time, policy makers need to
understand how national and international choices affect
both individual women and men and their families at the
micro level. The afternoon round-table participants
comment on the morning plenary presentations and
indicate how the issues raised relate to their own
programs.


Session organizer: Irene Tinker

Chair: Irene Tinker
Equity Policy Center

Panelists: Julia Chang Bloch
Bureau for Food for Peace Program
and Voluntary Assistance
Agency for International
Development
Patricia Kutzner
World Hunger Education Service
Martin McLaughlin
The U.S. Catholic Conference
Montague Yudelman
Agriculture and Rural Development
Department
The World Bank






Concurrent Session
WOMEN AND MODERNIZATION IN ASIA: RECENT
RESEARCH


Saturday, October 15
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Congressional Room


Recent research is presented focusing on Taiwan, India,
Thailand, Yugoslavia, and Pakistan.


Session organizer: Barbara Knudsen


Chair:


Barbara Miller


Presenters:
Rita Gallin
College of Nursing
Michigan State University
Sucheta Mazumdar
Asian American Studies
Center
University of
California-Los Angeles
Nina C. Stiles





Anita Weiss
Department of Sociology
University of
California-Berkeley


Papers:
"Rural Industrialization and
Chinese Women: A Case
Study from Taiwan"
"Prostitution: The Impact of
Development on a Traditional
Sector of Employment, India"



"Women of Thailand and
Yugoslavia: A Comparative
Analysis of Their Incentives
and Economic Contributions
for Development"
"Factory Women Workers in
Lahore, Pakistan-Women
and Factory Work in Punjab,
Pakistan"






Concurrent Session
HOW TO INTEGRATE WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
INTO THE UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM


Saturday, October 15
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Massachusetts Room


A round-table discussion on:
* forming women in development courses and curricula;
* integrating women in development concerns into courses
in various disciplines;
* targeting courses and departments as well as strategies
for integration of women in development material;
* the concept of "agri-home economics" which emphasizes
women in development; and
* developing a two year degree program, "Food and
Family in International Development" for international
women.


Session organizer: Nancy M. O'Rourke

Chair: Nancy M. O'Rourke
College of Family Life
Utah State University

Discussants: Sue Ellen Charlton
Department of Political Science
Colorado State University
Mary Hill Rojas
Office of Women in World Development
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University
Kathleen Staudt
Department of Political Science
University of Texas at El Paso






Concurrent Session
WOMEN OF THE FOURTH WORLD


Saturday, October 15
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Executive Suite


The people of the Fourth World are those who are not only
poor, but are caught in a cycle of poverty. They are the
urban and rural population totally excluded at the bottom of
the social scale in all countries whatever their social
structure. This panel discusses the women who suffer the
dual oppression of being both women and part of the
Fourth World.


Session organizer: Margaret Varma

Chair: Laura Jane Harper
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University

Panelists: Fanchette Fanelli
Fourth World Movement
Margaret Varma
Cook College
Rutgers University






Concurrent Session
HOW WOMEN MOBILIZE TO ACTION


Saturday, October 15
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Gallery Room


The panelists provide a panorama of the formal and
informal associations through which women mobilize to
action and through which they can be reached. Panelists
will classify different types of associations, and for each,
define contours; assess strengths and limitations; and
describe dynamics.


Session organizer: Maria Otero

Chair: Judith Helzner
Private Agencies Collaborating
Together

Presenters: Blanca Fernandez
Center for Research and Promotion of
Peasantry
Kathryn March
Department of Anthropology
Cornell University
Virginia Saurwein
Department of International Economic
and Social Affairs
United Nations






Concurrent Session
EVALUATION PROCESSES AND THE STATE OF THE
ARTS


Saturday, October 15
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
South American Room


The session covers the state of the art in systems of
measurement. It identifies ways to demonstrate how a
measurable impact can be made on national priority
development goals by providing women with access to
resources.


Session organizer: Caroline Pezzullo

Chair: Carolina Pezzullo
United Nations NGO Representative
Society for International Development

Panelists: Olubanke Y.K. Akerele
Voluntary Fund for United Nations
Decade for Women
Constantina Safilios-Rothschild
The Population Council
Frieda M. Silvert
Institute for the Study of Human Issues






Concurrent Session
FRONTIERS OF FOOD FUEL POLICY AND
PROGRAMMING


Saturday, October 15
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
New York Room


Types of fuels and stoves affect efficient fuel use and
smoke pollution. This panel discusses the successes and
failures of projects addressing these issues, and examines
the extent to which the needs of women have been met.


Session organizer: Irene Tinker

Chair: Marilyn Hoskins
Food and Agriculture Organization

Panelists Discussant:
Karlyn Eckman Martha Loutfi
International Labor
Dolores Koenig Organization
Department of
Anthropology
American University
Shubh Kumar
International Food Policy
Research Institute
Kirk R. Smith
East-West Center






Concurrent Session
SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT


Saturday, October 15
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Senate Room


First hand observations on how small businesses are
successfully organized, financed, and managed in
developing countries. A discussion examines the
implications of small business development for women,
and how women entrepreneurs in developing countries can
most effectively build their businesses.


Session organizer: Marilyn Richards and Barbara Thomas

Chair: Mary Houghton
South Shore Bank of Chicago

Panelists: Jeffrey Ashe
ACCION International/AITEC
Ela Bhatt
Self Employed Women's Association
Suzanne Kindervatter
Overseas Education Fund
Mildred Robbins Leet
Trickle-Up Program






Concurrent Session
CAREER PLANNING IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT


Saturday, October 15
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Pan-American Room


This session is designed for people new to the
development field and for individuals who may already be
working in international development and wish to expand
their opportunities. It looks at potential career paths, ways
to open new options, and the broader issues of
international development in the future, specifically as
relating to professional opportunities for women.


Session organizer: Marilyn Richards

Chair: Paula Goddard
Agency for International Development

Panelists: Hazel Denton
The World Bank
Shashi Gupta
New TransCentury Foundation
Barbara Lazarus
Career Services
Wellesley College






Concurrent Session
WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT: ADVANCEMENT OF A
DISCIPLINE


Saturday, October 15
10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
South American Room


The panel examines how the Women in Development field
has moved from micro experiments and niches of
opportunity to larger policy decisions and budgets. The
panel is made up of people who have played a large part
in key institutions in moving Women in Development from
the retail to the wholesale level of influence.


Session organizer: Robert J. Berg

Chair: Robert J. Berg
Overseas Development Council

Panelists: Beatriz Harretche
Inter-American Development Bank
Loret Miller Ruppe
Peace Corps
Gloria Scott
The World Bank
Sarah Tinsley
Office of Women in Development
Agency for International Development






Concurrent Session
POPULATION ISSUES AS THEY RELATE TO WOMEN


Saturday, October 15
10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Pan-American Room


Current population themes in research and programming
are outlined and related specifically to women. Among
issues panelists describe are: the links between women's
reproductive and productive roles; the availability of data
on women; and the concept of the user's perspective.


Session organizer: Maria Otero

Chair: Barbara Herz

Panelists: George Brown
The Population Council
Mallica Vajrathon
Joann Vaneck
United Nations Statistical Office






Concurrent Session
PERENNIAL PROBLEMS: IMPROVING MACRO-LEVEL
DATA ON WOMEN


Saturday, October 15
10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
New York Room


A discussion of recent efforts to improve national level
census data, agricultural participation data, and
agricultural survey data. Policy, research and programming
implications are explored.


Session organizer: Kathleen Cloud

Chair: Rae Lesser Blumberg
University of California-San Diego

Presenters: Ruth Dixon
Department of Sociology
University of California-Davis
Ellen Jamison
Center for International Research
Bureau of the Census
Anita Spring
Department of Anthropology
University of Florida






Concurrent Session
TITLE XII AND WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT: THE
OPPORTUNITIES AND ISSUES


Saturday, October 15
10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Massachusetts Room


This session is a round-table dialogue among university
researchers/administrators and top level AID policy
makers. Three former AID Mission Directors, with 50 years
of collective experience with host governments and AID,
interact with established scholars to identify opportunities
and impediments for Title XII Women in Development
initiatives. Panelists discuss lessons learned from the past,
and new approaches including farming systems research.


Session organizer: C. Jean Weidemann

Chair: C. Jean Weidemann
Board for International Food and
Agricultural Development/AID

Panelists: Priscilla Boughton
Board for International Food and
Agricultural Development/AID
Cornelia Flora
Rural Sociology
Kansas State University
Glenn Patterson
Agency for International Development
Ralph Smuckler
International Programs
Michigan State University
Leonard Yaeger
Agency for International Development






Concurrent Session
NEW APPROACHES TO WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT


Saturday, October 15
10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Gallery Room


This session reviews new research findings on women and
agricultural development.


Session organizer: Barbara Knudsen

Chair: Joyce Lewinger Moock
Rockefeller Foundation


Presenters:
Susan Poats
International Programs
University of Florida
Linda Salcedo

Ruth Taplin
London School of
Economics
Jacquiline R. Touba



Jane H. Walter
North Carolina A&T State
University
with
A.C. Samli
Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State
University


Papers:
"Women and Potatoes in
Developing Countries"

"Global Issues-Can Women
Help?"
"The Position of Women in
the Israeli Kibbutz System:
Linkages and Effects"
"Women's Non-Agricultural
Economic Contributions in
the Middle East"
"Towards Improving the Food
Supply: A Technology
Transfer Model Applicable to
Women"






Concurrent Session
DESIGN AND IMPLICATIONS OF NONFORMAL ADULT
LEARNING


Saturday, October 15
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Congressional Room


Women's groups in the Third World need training. They are
best approached with nonformal education techniques.
This session looks at program design and asks the
question: what do such nonformal education approaches
imply? During this workshop participants design a strategy
using nonformal education techniques: needs analysis,
problem posing, participative evaluation.


Session organizer: Jane Kathryn Vella

Presenters: Sheila Taube
The Jubilee Group
Jane Kathryn Vella
The Julibee Group






Concurrent Session
WORKSHOP ON THE TRAINING PROCESS: A POINT OF
ENTRY TO GRASSROOTS GROUPS


Saturday, October 15
10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Executive Suite, 4th Floor


A two hour experiential workshop involves the participants
in a training activity. By analyzing the process, participants
will identify methods, skills, and underlying philosophies for
training effectively at the grassroots level.


Session organizer: Maria Otero

Co-trainers: Maria Otero
Centre for Development and Population
Activities
Suzanne Kindervatter
Overseas Education Fund






Concurrent Session
1985 WORLD CONFERENCE ON THE UNITED NATIONS
DECADE FOR WOMEN: NAIROBI


Saturday, October 15
10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Senate Room


A discussion on the concluding international conference of
the United Nations Decade for Women presents information
on conference preparations and on its expected outcome.
The panel also outlines the role of non-governmental
organizations as well as governments in the conference.
Conference themes and issues; strategy and concrete
measures for the advancement of women after the Decade
is examined. The impact of the Decade on international
technical assistance programs is reviewed in the context of
an overall retrospective of the Decade and its goals.


Session organizer: Kristen Timothy-Connor

Moderator: Kristen Timothy-Connor
United Nations Secretariat

Presenters: Ulla Olin
United Nations Development
Programme
Leticia Shahani, Secretary General
1985 World Conference on the United
Nations Decade for Women
Anne Walker
International Women's Tribune Centre






FILMS


Thursday, October 13,
*4:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Friday, October 14,
*9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 14
*8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Michigan Room

Films exploring a variety of issues concerning women,
development and socio-economic change will be shown
from Thursday mid-afternoon to Saturday noon. Settings
are varied-among them western Kenya, southern Indian,
Greece's Cyclades Island, urban Morocco, the Andes, and
New Mexico. Subjects range from !Kung nomadic
hunter-gatherers to Chicano mine workers. Among the
topics explored are women's diverse political, social and
economic roles, the relationships between growing
populations and diminishing resources and conflicting
value systems as modernization processes and traditional
ways collide.
*Please check the film listing at the registration desk for
individual times and titles.

Sessions Barbara Thomas
organizer:



MARKETPLACE PARTICIPANTS

Friday October 14
5:45 p.m.-8 p.m.
Senate Room

Pan American Health Overseas Development
Organization Council
Women and Food UNESCO
Information Network
Information Network Partners of the Americas
Office of Women in
Office o Women in American Home Economics
International Development, Association
Michigan State University
International Centre for
Women in World Area
Research on Women
Studies
Management-
In Our Own Way Management-
Communication Seminars

The marketplace is a combination cocktail party/exchange
of program information.






EXHIBITS


Exhibit hours
Thursday, October 13, 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
Friday, October 14, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday, October 15, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Upper Lobby


UNESCO
Overseas Development Council
Pan-American Health Organization
Peace Corp


Exhibitors may be seen in the registration area, upper
lobby.










PLEASE NOTE ...


* Admission to all conference activities is by registration
only.

* As of press date, the speakers on the program are all
confirmed. Affiliations for speakers, chairs, presenters,
moderators, discussants, etc. are listed for identification
only. Speakers' opinions and comments are their own
and not necessarily those of their affiliated institutions.

* Copies of some research papers presented at this
conference will be available from AWID after the
conference for the cost of copying ($.10/page) and first
class mailing. Papers that were submitted in advance are
on a list at the registration area. For a copy of a paper,
complete an order and leave with the registrar. The cost
of papers will be billed.

* All meeting rooms are in the Capital Hilton.






The Association for Women in Development was
created by a group of scholars, practitioners, and
policy-makers at a founding conference held in
Racine, Wisconsin, May, 1982. The Association is a
U.S.-based initiative which is open to individuals and
institutions world-wide. As the organization develops,
it expects to form linkages with comparable national
and regional associations outside the U.S.

The Association for Women in Development is
committed to: increasing the awareness of the
interdependence of nations, institutions, and
individuals in development; ensuring that women
participate as full and active partners in a more
equitable development process and that they share
in its benefits.

Goals:

* Strengthen research and action in the Women in
Development field by increasing interaction among
scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in both
the private and public sectors.

* Improve the practice of multilateral, bilateral, and
private institutions in the integration of women as
both agents and beneficiaries of development.

* Provide improved communications to a widening
audience on problems and solutions relative to
Women in Development.

Regular membership is available at $15 a year,
individual founding memberships are $25, founding
memberships for institutions are $100. Membership
includes a subscription to the AWID newsletter.

The Association for Women in Development is
incorporated under the laws of the District of
Columbia, and has received 501-C (3) status from
the Internal Revenue Service making contributions
tax deductible.

Wingspread Participants:
Willie Campbell, Overseas Education Fund
Virginia Caples, Alabama A&M University
Mariam K. Chamberlain, Russell Sage Foundation
Kathleen Cloud, CID/WID Project and Women and Food
Information Network
Margaret Fahs, National Association of State Universities
and Land-Grant Colleges






Ellen Fenoglio, South-East Consortium for International
Development
Francille M. Firebaugh, Ohio State University
Arvonne S. Fraser, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Paula Goddard, Agency for International Development
Margaret Goodman, House Foreign Affairs Committee
Florence Howe, The Feminist Press
Jane Jaquette, Occidental College
Valeriana Kallab, Overseas Development Council
Jane B. Knowles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Barbara D. Miller, Syracuse University
Joyce Lewinger Moock, The Rockefeller Foundation
Maria Otero, Centre for Development and Population
Activities
Rebecca Polland, North-East Council for Women in
Development
Katharine P. Riddle, University of Nebraska
Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso
Barbara P. Thomas, Clark University
Irene Tinker, Equity Policy Center
Sarah Tinsley, Agency for International Development
Paula T. Valad, The World Bank
Anne S. Walker, International Women's Tribune Center
C. Jean Weidemann, Board for International Food and
Agricultural Development


Special Thanks for thoughtful advice to Alice
Hudders, Mary Beth Lochnicht, Judy Schnidman
and Marcia Wiss.


Program design: Alice E. Hudders
Typography: Intergraphics, Inc.
Printing: VMW Printing, Inc.






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