WID/Gender Units and the Experience of Gender
Mainstreaming in Multilateral Organisations
"Knights on White Horses"?*
March 1999
Gisela Geisler (team leader),
Bonnie Keller and Anne-Lene Norman
With contributions by Torill Iversen and Karin Kapadia and
assistance from Maggie Mabweijano and Maureen Mbaalu-Mukasa
(Uganda), Mary Shawa (Malawi) and Sadeka Halim (Bangladesh)
* A commentator in one of the
organisations surveyed here likened the WID/gender advisers to
knights on white horses, who like their medieval counterparts
defend their vision of an ideal society sometimes persuasively,
sometimes agressively, but always with bravery and conviction.
A Report Submitted to the
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
by Chr. Michelsen Institute.
The Ministry does not accept any
responsibility for the information in this
report nor the views expressed, which are solely those of
Chr. Michelsen Institute
in assosiation with Nordic Consulting Group
