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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... focused on bilateral assistance within a Women's Legal Rights program. In the midst of efforts to “reinvent government” and to “manage for results,” a team was to identify indicators for assessing the “results.” Typically, members of ...
... focus.10 While that was better, it still struck me that it was not good enough. It seemed still that pressures to achieve measurable changes within the funding periods risked distorting the approaches or sacrificing longer-term, more ...
... focus on advocacy—building individual and organizational capacity—may be a heavily legalistic approach that is particularly suited to the context of the United States but is oddly out of place elsewhere. At best, it may be ineffective ...
... against violence (see, e.g. South Africa), and to focus legal literacy beyond individual awareness to group awareness and political action. Further, this chapter recognizes an expansive understanding of women's rights 34 Chapter Two.
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