Power, Gender and Social Change in AfricaRaj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 M03 26 - 359 pages Gender plays a hugely significant and too often under-considered role in predicting how accessible resources such as education, wage-based employment, physical and mental health care, adequate nutrition and housing will be to an individual or community. According to a 2001 World Bank report titled Engendering Development—Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, enormous disparities exist between men and women in terms of basic rights and the power to determine the future, both in Africa and around the globe. A better understanding of the links between gender, public policy and development outcomes would allow for more effective policy formulation and implementation at many levels. This book, through its discussion of the challenges, achievements and lessons learned in efforts to attain gender equality, sheds light on these important issues. The book contains chapters from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including sociologists, economists, political scientists, scholars of law, anthropologists, historians and others. The work includes analysis of strategic gender initiatives, case studies, research, and policies as well as conceptual and theoretical pieces. With its format of ideas, resources and recorded experiences as well as theoretical models and best practices, the book is an important contribution to academic and political discourse on the intricate links between gender, power, and social change in Africa and around the world. |
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... NGO OCHA OECD Global Women in Politics Gender and Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation Project Home-based Enterprises Human Development Index of UNDP Juman immunodeficiency virus Human Poverty Index of UNDP Human Rights-Based ...
... NGO, Gender Links has observed that many processes are in place which aim at targets, measures and practical indicators. Some of these processes were in place before the MDGs, and what is particularly important about these global ...
... NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] and female intellectuals.” Opposition parties, by contrast, did not define a mechanism for selecting women to their reserved seats, according to Meena, leaving open the possibility of abuse: “This ...
... NGOs that assume legal and political contexts like their own. Readers' responses to this chapter will differ depending on their national and cultural frameworks: For Americans, the chapter urges caution and some re-thinking of the ...
... NGO-implementing partners might feel compelled to lobby in foreign legislatures for new laws (though such “lobbying” does happen as American organizations work with elected officials, staff, members of the judiciary, etc.). The push for ...