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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... programs. Before addressing the issue, a critical distinction must be emphasized: This chapter is not about global advocacy for women's rights. The achievements in Beijing, on the other hand, were most certainly a result of women's ...
... programs—such as those focused on governance, economic growth, health issues or natural resource management6—may be another.7 A sub-hypothesis of this chapter is that Americans (and some Europeans) who are either lawyers or are infected ...
... 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 the team suggested indicators such as “number of new laws passed ...
... program to teach women in rural areas about their rights, and their Ministry for Women, Children and Family publishes a ... Programs have also evolved to use not just modern media, but theater; to include men in organizing and marching ...
... program is UWONET's core program It seeks to include women as a key constituency in the formulation and implementation of any laws, policies, programs and practices to the end that women's and society's status improves, thus ...