The phrase: ‘getting institutions right’ in the title of this Bulletin refers to ‘governance’ concerns in current development policy discourse – concerns with understanding the relationship between patterns of development management, and development outcomes. These patterns institutionalize particular outcomes. These patterns institutions of people’s needs and ways of responding to them. What might be involved in ‘getting institutions right’ for women is a questions not often asked in governance debates. It should be. Gender and Development (GAD) policy initiatives have, at least in principle, been accepted…