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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... regional exchange.” NDI has stated a “philosophy that supporting nongovernmental organizations and their efforts to conduct advocacy-related programs is critical to giving community groups and key NGOs the power to keep pace with ...
... regional Civic Education and Advocacy workshop delivered by NDI in the Gambia, participants engaged in a role-playing exercise in advocacy. They were expected to organize an advocacy campaign—taking into account their socio-economic ...
... regional coordinator of WiLDAF, from a paper presented to the SADC regional women's parliamentary caucus in May 2005.) The concerns of the five-year review were confirmed by the UNDP's recent completion of independent evaluation of ...
... regional women lawyers' groups to support a suit brought by lawyer and activist Unity Dow, challenging the Citizenship Amendment Law on both constitutional and international human rights' grounds. Dow's husband was not a Botswana ...
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