Professor Kardam has conducted research on organizational change in donor agencies, on how to make development organizations more accountable, and the problems of collaboration between donor and recipients. She has designed and implemented surveys to assess women’s economic status and liaised with women’s non-governmental organizations and their constituencies for the purposes of collaboration and the development of capacity building activities. At the national and regional levels, she has advised the United Nations Development Programme on gender mainstreaming strategies, gender and good governance programs and projects and offered a training program at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on the same topics. She has further participated at many UNDAW, UNRISD and INSTRAW sponsored workshops as a gender expert, prepared reports and papers, edited books and offered advice in the area of gender, good governance, accountability, and civil society building.
Articles
The Emerging Global Gender Equality Regime from Neoliberal and Constructivist Perspectives in International Relations, International Feminist Journal of Politics (2004)
A global gender equality regime has emerged, identifiable by its norms, principles, legal instruments and...
Books
Turkey's Engagement with Global Women's Human Rights (2005)
Examining the rise of global women's human rights and their interpretation and application to Turkey,...
Bringing Women in: Women's Issues in International Development programs (1991)
The responses of development agencies to women in development (WID) issues are shaped by the...