Rethinking Gender in Development Practice is about the ways in which issues of gender-including violence against women and girls, entrenched gender roles and expectations, the exclusion of non-binary genders, and the participation of disempowered genders-affect and are affected by development practice.

Introduction 1. Is development work still so straight? Heteronormativity in the development sector over a decade on 2. Buzzwords and fuzzwords: deconstructing development discourse 3. Taking the power out of empowerment - an experiential account 4. Seeing empowerment as relational: lessons from women participating in development projects in Cambodia 5. Targeting women or transforming institutions? 6. Defining women's empowerment in women and girl safe spaces: a call for collective self-determination 7. From complexity to simplicity - how chasing success stories affects gendered NGO practices 8. Research uptake, lessons from a multi-country global program: What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls 9. A study on capacity development in the 'What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women' program 10. The gendered impact of COVID-19 on FGM 11. Shifting gender roles: an analysis of violence against women in post-conflict Uganda 12. Exploring the use of film to stimulate dialogue on the issues of gender inequality in Samoa