From Heroines to Beneficiaries; From Beneficiaries to Heroines: The Impact of a Small-Scale Irrigation Project on Gender in West-Bengal Terai

Loes Schenk-Sandbergen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Section South- and Southeast-Asia of the University of Amsterdam, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Social Science in 1975. She has published extensively or gender issues, linking them with povert and the process of empowerment. Besides, she is a consultant, in particular in gender (women) and empowerment. She did substantial anthropological research, and impact- and evaluation studies in India, Laos, Vietnam, China, Philippines and Bangladesh. Besides writing numerous articles, manuals and project reports she is the author of several books.