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Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Tools to support transparency in local governance

| 2004
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: UN-Habitat [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: popular participation, civil society, political participation, municipal government, local government, manuals
This toolkit offers practical tools that civil society organizations and other advocacy groups can use in their efforts to promote more effective citizen participation and for combating corruption in cities.

A decade of women's empowerment through local government in India : workshop report October 20-21, 2003, New Delhi

| 2003
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: South Asia partnership Canada (SAP) [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, panchayat, political participation, local government, india
At this workshop, sixty people discussed various innovations and interventions that have been implemented to empower women by promoting their political participation in local government (panchayat) in different states of India during the last decade.

Men's contribution in the process of achieving gender equality : experience of the Gender and law project Oromia (GALPO)

| 2003
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: GTZ
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, gender equality, men, ethiopia
GTZ's Gender and Law Project Oromia, Ethiopia, aims to improve women's rights situation. It specifically strives to enable the women to increasingly use the possibilities to protect and benefit from their rights in the traditional (informal) and formal governmental justice structures.

Producing NGO shadow reports to CEDAW : a procedural guide

| 2003
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International women's rights action watch (IWRAW)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, treaties, manuals
The procedural and format guidelines are designed to assist NGOs in producing shadow reports for the CEDAW Committee to use in evaluating government efforts to meet the obligations of the CEDAW Convention.

Gender approaches in conflict and post-conflict situations

| 2002
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations development programme (UNDP)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender mainstreaming, manuals, conflict, dispute settlement
The purpose of this manual is to support and strengthen the capacity of UNDP staff working on recovery and rehabilitation activities in crisis and post-conflict situations to mainstream gender equality objectives.
 

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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.