Over the last decade the term ‘mainstreaming’ has become an established part of development jargon. It rose to prominence through the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, where it was hailed as the most appropriate approach for promoting equality between women and men. While the concept of mainstreaming first became popular in the development field in relation to gender, it has become increasingly associated with an ever-growing set of issues of broad concern including age, HIV/AIDS, conflict, disaster reduction, and the environment.
In this issue Oliver Bakewell discusses the emergence of mainstreaming within development, highlighting problems related to the use of the term and the application of mainstreaming in practice, Jerry Adams outlines the findings from an evaluation comparing the experiences of mainstreaming HIV/AIDS, gender and the environment in five Irish NGOs, John Twigg explores the challenges of mainstreaming disaster reduction into development work, and Hannah Warren reflects on the difficulties of mainstreaming gender.
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