Gender, Citizenship and Governance

UNIFEM's gender-responsive budgeting initiative

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations development fund for women (UNIFEM) etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, government budgeting, municipal government, capacity building, india
This video showcases UNIFEM's work on gender-responsive budgeting. The film is set in Mysore, India, where an elected woman representative facilitates dialogue between women and municipal government and mobilize women to articulate their priorities and demand action from local leaders.

Promoting women's participation in decision making at the commune level in Cambodia : activity report

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World bank. Cambodia office
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, political participation, local government, training programmes, capacity building, cambodia
As part of a project to increase the number of women commune/sangkat counselors at the April 2007 election in Cambodia, training sessions of women candidates and public forums to create conducive environments for potential candidates were conducted.

Gender justice : a citizen’s guide to gender accountability at international financial institutions

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Center for international environmental law (CIEL) [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender mainstreaming, financial institutions, international organizations, gender equality, women, employment, governance
This guide encourages the use of the accountability mechanisms to ensure the international financial institutions (IFIs) comply with their own gender policies and seeks to advance IFI treatment of gender concerns.

Religion, politics and gender equality : project reference document

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations research institute for social development (UNRISD)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, gender equality, religion, political conditions
This project is particularly concerned with the effects on gender equality of the mixing of religion and politics, and how women engage in this arena to reinforce, contest and reinvent hegemonic norms, actions and representations.

The women's legal rights initiative : final report

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: USAID
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, legal status, legislation, gender, benin, guatemala, lesotho, madagascar, mozambique, namibia, rwanda, south africa, swaziland
Between 2002-2007 the Initiative implemented women's legal rights programmes in Benin, Guatemala, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa and Swaziland. The successes and innovations are summarized in this final report.
 

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