Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Governance & gender equality

| 2006
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender, governance, world bank
This note describes the World Bank's approach to gender and governance.

Women's rights and citizenship : program initiative : description of the program for 2006-11

| 2006
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International development research centre (IDRC)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, civil and political rights, work programme
A 5-year plan of work for a new programme on Women’s Rights and Citizenship (WRC) is outlined. The WRC is part of IDRC’s two-pronged strategy on gender: commitment to sound gender analysis in all initiatives in tandem with research that is specifically focused on gender and social inequities.

Annual report on good practices, lessons learned and success stories : October 1, 2004 - September 30, 2005 : [women's legal rights initiative : best practices year three]

| 2006
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: USAID
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, legal status, legislation, gender, albania, benin, guatemala, madagascar
The Women’s Legal Rights Initiative designs, implements, and evaluates activities in focus countries in Southern Europe, Southern Africa and Latin America. This report reviews lessons learned and good practices in programmes in Albania, Benin, Guatemala and Madagascar during Oct 2004-Sep 2005.

Gender and the involvement of women in local governance : a handbook of concepts training and action tools

| 2006
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: UN-Habitat
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, political participation, local government, training programmes, capacity building, manuals, somalia
This manual was translated and adapted to Somali language and culture during the Good Governance and Leadership Training Programme (GLTP). Free registration is required to download the publication.

Women & elections : guide to promoting the participation of women in elections

| 2005
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: UN. Department of public information
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, elections, manuals
The current handbook is intended to provide a quick reference guide to assist headquarters- and fieldbased actors from the United Nations, Governments and civil society working to promote greater participation of women in electoral processes in post-conflict countries.
 

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