A UNRISD Programme Paper examining faith-based organisations’ engagement with gender.

This paper deals with faith-based organisations (FBOs) delivering services with the aim of contributing to the debates on religious organisations’ engagement with questions of gender. The paper presents no conclusions or generic findings about this heterogeneous group of actors; instead, by flagging a series of conundrums, it questions the ways in which FBOs have been framed as positive agents for the advancement of gender equality.

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