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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... NGOs; and that model may allow for organizing and getting out the word (educating), but at the same time it stresses advocacy for legislation as the primary tool with which to achieve social change. In fact, the advocacy approach may ...
... NGOs), 2) legal literacy (strengthening women's knowledge/awareness of their rights), and 3) access to legal and judicial services (strengthening women's ability to enforce their rights). Focusing on laws and legislative frameworks ...
... NGOs to advocate for new laws and women's rights. In one report, it states that increased access to communications and the globalization of strategies and campaigns have made NGOs increasingly effective. Yet many NGOs need further ...
... NGO representatives reacted angrily to unsatisfactory MP responses, which in turn upset the chiefs. Typically, the assessment would be that the failure of the meeting was a matter of difficult personalities, or perhaps a simple “lesson ...
... NGOs lose the potential dynamism and power that such integration offers.” IDS, p. 3. As will be noted below, this chapter paper is in part “inspired” by Trubek and Galanter's 1973 paper entitled “Scholars in Self-Estrangement”—so this ...