The study set to interrogate how gender is constructed in the community engaged in implementing the Millennium Village Project (MVP) in Kenya and consider the implications for the role of women and gender. The study advances an argument that the construction of gender in the African setting is very different from the universalized western conceptualization of gender. It is appropriate for international development agencies to take cognizance of details of conceptualization of concepts such as gender. Africans should avoid the tendency to universalise and essentialise Western conceptions and...