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It is argued that the persistent marginalization of gender sensitive policy measures points to gendered patterns in the administration of development, which makes small-scale changes with policies or projects futile in the absence of more fundamental institutional change. Development institutions and organizations must be recognized as being deeply gendered in their structure, and strategies to institutionalize women's interests and gender-sensitive accountability in development must be oriented to institutional transformation. A gendered analysis of development organizations in a range of different institutional arenas from the state to the community is offered. It looks at the gendered dynamics structuring bureaucracies at the state level, and at the inter-state level where multilateral organizations are located. It also explores gendered institutional dynamics in the less formally bureaucratized arena of NGOs …