1. Gender and Social Development: identifying and addressing inequity
Dr Hakan Seckinelgin
ICPS -Strategic Gender Equity
Planning
14 February 2017

2. What is social development?
May be:
‘social policies are purposeful programmes, associated with political ideologies and programmatic ambitions to modify individuals’ behaviour and society’ Or
is about human wellbeing…the social relations necessary for human wellbeing and the systems by which wellbeing may be promoted” or as a product of the political economy
-Welfare policies (health, education, housing, employment….)?
-Or overall wellbeing

3. Social Protection
The ILO has set out three main objectives reflecting the three major dimensions of social protection:  
Extending the coverage and effectiveness of social security schemes
Promoting labour protection , which comprises decent conditions of work, including wages, working time and occupational safety and health, essential components of decent work
Working through dedicated programmes and activities to protect such vulnerable groups as migrant workers and their families; and workers in the informal economy. Moreover, the world of work's full potential will be used to respond to the AIDS pandemic, focusing on enhancing tripartite constituents' capacity
The development of International Social Security Floor, adopted in April 2009 by the the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (UNCEB).

4. Who are the actors of social development to provide such protection?
Governments
Civil Society
International Organizations
IGO
INGOs
Bilateral Agencies
Who has the power?

5. What is the question? Redistribution Recognition Temporality?
Sustainability and Openness of a system for new needs
How do new needs emerge – activism and opportunity

6. One mechanism is elections:
‘While the utilitarian state was committed to a complete inventory of its population, liberal ideas of citizenship, which implied voting rights and conscription also contributed greatly to the standardization of naming practices’ (Scott 1998:71).
But :
-This is an interesting juncture in terms of the way governance practice gains its own momentum?

7. This also highlights:
The quality of citizenship – in this case gender sensitivity will matter.
But also what less is being done to support this citizenship:
in education
labour law
associations
public attitudes

8. The case I discussed in the previous session on Turkey shows challenges in this process.
The formal changes do not necessarily deliver solutions for social needs and
Allows a particular progression in terms of social development.

9. Another Case: Burundi

10. Burundi II Long war ending in 2007/08
Important contributions from women’s organizations (particularly support by the international groups) to the Arusha peace process and the creation of eth post-conflict Constitution.
Participation of women at political level in the parliament and in the governance

11. But: Gender Governance of social relations remained the same:
Land ownership
Inheritance
Being either in your father’s or husband’s family
When neither is there what happens?
What happened when you arrived back from the conflict?

12. The gap between formal statements and explicit aspirations
vs.
Unchanging social relations and implicit unwillingness to change
Continuation of control over economic means, domestic violence, rape as a gender control mechanisms.

13. Other contexts and tools:
Conditional Cash Transfers:
Microfinance:

14. What are these tools changing?
How sustainable they are particularly considering that some of these interventions have rather conservative attitude towards women’s role within the household.
Education and reproduction of patriarchy and models of masculinities.

15.
What does this say?