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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... Activities under the Policy Advocacy program will include: • Monitoring International and Regional women's rights conventions, especially tracking CEDAW • Advocacy for the ratification of international and regional conventions • Gender ...
... activities. There may be many African contexts for legal culture—ranging from reliance on dispute resolution by a chief or other respected person in a village, to rent-seeking by African civil servants that Africans may accept as normal ...
... activities are drawn from organizations that are either American (in origin and personnel) or multilateral (but ... Activities To explore how law and development critiques shed light on common activities, we will use a typology of ...
... Activities (CEDPA's) work in Bahrain30 In 2004, the Moroccan government adopted the landmark Family Law supporting women's equality and granting them new rights in marriage and divorce. Several women's organization members who lobbied ...
... activities and budgets. Sample examples included voter education and encouragement of women's participation. The workshop evaluations show that 39 percent found developing a civic advocacy strategy “most enriching”; but 10 percent found ...