Why has this progress been so elusive? How can we explain the contradictory trends-heightened advocacy on the one hand and the growing poverty of the world's women on the other? Rounaq Jahan has written a book which is both timely and necessary. In raising the critical issue of the distinction between strategies of integration and those of transformation, it will help to clarify the different roles of national machinery for the integration of women in development, women's NGOs, and the women's movement. With clarity, Rounaq Jahan begins to unravel a central question in development cooperation: why is it that after two decades of work, gender issues have yet to become part of mainstream development? Her work responds to the pressing need which she identifies well: increased accountability of donor implementing gender-friendly policies and programs.