Women in development : A.I.D."s experience, 1973-1985. Vol. II. Ten field studies

The final report consisted of 2 volumes -- a synthesis volume (PN-AAL-087), and the present volume, which presents ten case studies developed in the course of the research. The cases cover the following topics: (1) the extent to which women were integrated as faculty members and students under a project to expand the Botswana Agricultural College; (2) the impact on women of the Accelerated Mahaweli Program, a vast, multi-donor river basin development project in Sri Lanka; (3) gender issues in the Northeast Rainfed Agricultural Development Project in Thailand; (4) the unplanned effects on women of the Association for the Development of Microenterprise, Inc. (ADEMI) Project in the Dominican Republic; (5) the effect of gender division of labor associated with a new food processing plant under the ALCOSA Agribusiness Project in Guatemala; (6) women"s incentives to participate in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Project in Kenya; (7) the integration of gender issues in the Resource Conservation and Utilization Project in western Nepal; (8) the Appropriate Technology for Rural Women Project, sponsored by the Inter- American Commission of Women, Organization of American States; (9) the achievements of the Industrial and Commercial Job Training for Women Project in Morocco; and (10) the Caribbean Agricultural Extension Project, which initially targeted women but dropped this objective in a later phase.