BA/KIT Information Portal

Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Women's struggles for justice : a roundtable on confronting sexual violence in armed conflict, [September 2007]

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Inter Pares
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, domestic violence, sex crimes, armed conflicts
In 2007 with women's rights activists from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Canada participated in a roundtable to discuss issues related to sexual violence against women in armed conflict. This report outlines the issues and reflections raised.

Producing shadow reports to the CEDAW committee : a procedural guide

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota. International women's rights action watch (IWRAW)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, human rights, treaties, report preparation, manuals
This manual offers a proposed timeline for NGO activity and guidelines on how to organize the shadow report. It outlines how the report should be presented and how NGOs might work with the CEDAW Committee.

Participatory budgeting from a gender perspective

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations development fund for women (UNIFEM)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: government budgeting, popular participation, gender mainstreaming, women, mexico, argentina, venezuela, mozambique, morocco
This issue of the GRB newsletter examines participatory budgeting (PB) as one of the main strategies for securing public participation in local governance. Articles discuss case studies from Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico and Morocco.

Facilitating CEDAW implementation in Southeast Asia (CEDAW SEAP) : UNIFEM programme evaluation report

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations development fund for women (UNIFEM)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, human rights, treaties, evaluation, south east asia, cambodia, indonesia, lao, philippines, thailand, vietnam
CEDAW SEAP aims to support the realization of women's human rights in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam through the Convention's effective implementation. This evaluation report shows the regional programme's effectiveness, relevance and sustainability.

Empowered and equal : gender equality strategy 2008-2011

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations development programme (UNDP)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender equality, gender mainstreaming, undp
Gender equality is articulated in the updated UNDP Strategic Plan 2008-11 as an 'integrating dimension' of UNDP's work. In this Gender Equality Strategy 2008-2011 it is described how the required integration will take place.
 

About this portal

This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on women’s political participation & representation, women’s rights, institutional mainstreaming, and decentralization & local governance. Find your resources in the database.