Lokot Michelle
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Front Sociol. 2021 May 28;6:664406. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.664406. eCollection 2021.
Many international non-government organizations (INGOs) implement interventions designed to promote gender equality, investing significant resources into embedding gender considerations into programmes through the strategy of gender mainstreaming. However, despite their altruistic mission, INGOs place less focus on addressing culture and power hierarchies within their organizations. This article suggests that many INGOs fail to walk the talk on gender equality. Through an analysis of recent challenges facing the development and humanitarian aid sector, including gaps in safeguarding and #AidToo, this paper emphasizes the importance of addressing gender equality from the inside out. It draws on feminist perspectives, the notion of the "deep structure" of organizations and the author's own experiences to argue for the need to address gendered, racial and colonial power hierarchies within the organizational culture of INGOs. The article argues that it is no longer sufficient to reduce gender mainstreaming and inclusion to programming interventions, and that INGOs need to reflexively and intentionally tackle power and inequalities within their own culture and structures.
许多国际非政府组织（INGO）实施旨在促进性别平等的干预措施，通过性别主流化战略投入大量资源，将性别因素纳入项目中。然而，尽管它们有着利他主义使命，但INGO较少关注解决其组织内部的文化和权力等级制度。本文指出，许多INGO在性别平等方面言行不一。通过分析发展和人道主义援助部门近期面临的挑战，包括保障方面的差距和“援助也有问题”，本文强调从内部解决性别平等问题的重要性。它借鉴了女权主义观点、组织“深层结构”的概念以及作者自身的经验，主张有必要在INGO的组织文化中解决性别化、种族化和殖民权力等级制度问题。文章认为，仅将性别主流化和包容性简化为项目干预措施已不再足够，INGO需要反思并有意应对其自身文化和结构中的权力及不平等问题。
