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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... for International Development Sudan Liberation Army Small to Medium Enterprise State-owned Enterprise Sub-Saharan Africa transnational feminist networks Tanzania Women Lawyers Association United Democratic Front (political party, ...
As of mid-2006 Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Seychelles all had national legislatures that included from 25 to nearly 50 percent women, placing them in the top 30 nations worldwide in terms of ...
The East African Cases: Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda have also experienced transitions in the past two decades. Uganda was first, with the National Resistance Movement (NRM) wresting power from the last in a ...
In Tanzania, not marked by the kind of conflict experienced in Uganda or Rwanda, women activists from the Tanzania Gender Networking Project have monitored closely the reserved seat system, put in place following the 1992 political ...
In Tanzania, a small number of 'special' seats for women existed during the single-party era, though not for the purpose of redressing historic imbalances, but rather with the goal of enhancing the representation of varied interests in ...