Power, Gender and Social Change in AfricaGender 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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In my own work, I have illustrated how Africa has made a critical contribution to the development of women's rights 9 by devising the Women's Protocol10 of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights. The Banjul Charter's protocol ...
It will take male Presidents, legislators, business people, doctors, farmers, and activists to work alongside women to craft and implement the solutions addressed and implied by this book. It will take husbands and fathers as well as ...
See Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (11 July 2003), http://www.africa-union.org/home/ Welcome.htm. See African Charter on Human and People's Rights (adopted 27 June 1981, ...
... sans frontiers Landless People's Movement National Democratic Institute New Partnership for Africa's Development New Generation of African Entrepreneurs Non-government organization Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...
human rights, Stephen Lewis, the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, lamented on how the multilateral system is disgorging a high-level panel of fifteen people to look at the redesign of all those areas of the United Nations system ...