Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Bibliography gender and governance

Evertzen, Annette | 2011
  • Author(s): Evertzen, Annette
  • Publisher: GADE (Gender diversiteit Annette Evertzen)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender equality, governance, women, political participation, budgeting
This bibliography is based on two collections: (1) the Internet, all the relevant literature on gender and governance and gender and legislation found on the Internet is given; and (2) the Inter Parliamentary Union, all their important literature on gender and governance.

Gender accountability : services fail poor women

Evertzen, Annette | 2008
  • Author(s): Evertzen, Annette
  • Publisher: GADE
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender equality, public services, gender mainstreaming, governance
Cases, methods and guidelines to strengthen gender accountability are presented. The focus is on gender accountability with respect to public services, mainly health and education, and elaborates on an accountability model developed by the World Bank.

Gender and local governance

Evertzen, Annette | 2001
  • Author(s): Evertzen, Annette
  • Publisher: SNV [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender mainstreaming, local government, development planning, manuals
This handbook outlines strategies in local governance to ensure that women’s needs and interests are incorporated into development planning at the local level. Although there is a particular emphasis on West Africa, the handbook is of value more widely.

The OP-CEDAW as a mechanism for implementing women's human rights : an analysis of the first five cases under the communications procedure of the OP-CEDAW

Facio, Alda | cop. 2008
  • Author(s): Facio, Alda
  • Publisher: IWRAW Asia Pacific
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, human rights, treaties, procedure (law), jurisprudence
The five first cases on human rights violations that were submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) under the Operation Procedures (OP) are analysed to extract lessons and to promote a better use of the OP-CEDAW by the women's movement.

Equity or equality for women? : understanding CEDAW's equality principles

Facio, Alda and Morgan, Martha I. | cop. 2009
  • Author(s): Facio, Alda and Morgan, Martha I.
  • Publisher: International women's rights action watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, treaties, gender equality
This essay traces the background of the controversy over the terms equity and equality in international human rights law and it describes CEDAW’s attempts to emphasize the distinction between ‘equality’ and ‘equity’ and its efforts to clarify the meaning of CEDAW’s gender equality concept.
 

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