Gender, Vulnerability Theory and Public Procurement - Perspectives on Global Reform

Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices.

List of contents

List of Contributors
Acronyms
Introduction
S.N. NYECK
1 The Challenge of Knowing: Public Procurement Between Unilateral Knowledge Dissemination and Participatory Knowledge Creation
E.K. SARTER
2 Law and Public Procurement in Kenya: A Human Vulnerability Analysis
ATIENO MBOYA
3 Gender Justice in Public International Organizations' Procurement Work: A Contrasted View
EMILIE COMBAZ
4 Growth Pattern in Women-Owned Construction Companies as Evidence of Vulnerability
ABIMBOLA WINDAPO
5 Contracted Vulnerability?: Job Quality, Service Quality, and Public Procurement of Services
E.K. SARTER AND ORLY BENJAMIN
6 The Case for Gender-Responsive Public Procurement in Botswana
EMMANUEL BOTLHALE
7 Gender-Responsiveness of Public Procurement and Tendering Policies in Kenya
GEDION ONYANGO AND MARYGORETTY AKINYI OTIENO
8 Policy Perspectives on Engendering Public Procurement in Africa: The Case of Rwanda and South Africa
ANGELITA KITHATU-KIWEKETE AND SHIKHA VYAS-DOORGAPERSAD
9 Vulnerability in Higher Education: The Case of Managerialism in Cleaning Services Procurement in Israel
ORLY BENJAMIN
10 The Paradox of Equity in Public Procurement Policies: A Vulnerability Analysis of Jordan
WA'ED ALSHOUBAKI
Index

About the author

S.N. Nyeck is Associate Professor of African Studies, Political Economy, Gender, and Queer Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA, and Adjunct Professor at CriSHET Mandela University, South Africa.

Summary

Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices.

Product details

• Authors: S.N. Nyeck
• Assisted by: S.N. Nyeck (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032443416
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244341-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Gender in Law, Culture, and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Sociology, Globalization, LAW / General, LAW / Gender & the Law, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Outsourcing, Systems of law, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Public Administration, Political Economy, Gender & the law, Gender studies, gender groups, Social Law, Development Studies, Civil service and public sector, Civil Service & Public Sector, Law and society, gender issues, Social law and Medical law