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It was 2012, and I was in Bnaslawa, a town outside of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The purpose of my trip was to conduct a “gender assessment”—a development industry term for a type of participatory re-search designed to determine the extent to which a project has integrated principles of gender equity into its activities.
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