Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Applying gender action plan lessons : a three-year road map for gender mainstreaming (2011-2013)

| 2010
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World bank. Poverty reduction and economic management network
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender mainstreaming, gender equality, world bank
This transition plan identifies key lessons from the implementation of the World Bank Group action plan, Gender Equality as Smart Economics, and sets out a proposal to improve the performance on Gender and Development.

Guidelines for enhancing women's representation and participation in politics within members of the countries of the International gender policy network

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International gender policy network (IGPN)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, political representation, political participation, training programmes, reference materials
Based on case studies, best practices and strategies, participants of a training of trainers workshop drew up these guidelines for advancing women’s representation and participation in political decision-making particularly in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.

Summary from the e-discussion on working with men to promote women in politics (March 16-31, 2009)

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: iKNOW politics
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, political participation, political parties, men
A summary report is presented of the 4th e-discussion of iKNOW Politics that focused on navigating political parties, balancing politics and family, support on legislation, networking and information sharing.

Report on the rights of women in Chile : equality in the family, labor and political spheres

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Inter-American commission on human rights (IACHR)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, sex discrimination, family law, labour legislation, political participation, chile
The report analyses the direct link between Chilean women's unequal status in the family and their limited participation in the country's political life and labour force.

UNDP lessons learned workshop on the nominated seats for women in the Papua New Guinea legislature : 'Lessons learned, looking into the future'

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: UNDP
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, political participation, affirmative action programmes, papua new guinea
To redress women’s representational imbalance in Papua New Guinea, temporary special measures for women’s parliamentary representation were put in place in 2007. This Report presents a summary of an evaluation of the strategies, processes, mechanisms and procedures that had been adopted.
 

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