Gomez, Jessica | [2012]
- Author(s): Gomez, Jessica
- Publisher: The Institute for inclusive security
- Pages: --
- Keywords: elections, gender, local government, women, rwanda
The Initiative for Inclusive Security partnered with the Rwandan Association of Local Government Authorities to conduct training to increase women’s participation in local elections. The preparation of female candidates helped successfully fulfill a constitutional quota at the local level.
Gonzalez, Keila and Sample, Kristen | 2010
- Author(s): Gonzalez, Keila and Sample, Kristen
- Publisher: International institute for democracy and electoral assistance (International IDEA) [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: gender mainstreaming, legislation, political representation, parliamentary government, latin america
This guide offers strategies to better obtain influence in parliaments that Latin American legislators can use to promote their gender equality agenda more effectively; ensure that gender is an element in the debate and agendas, and that it becomes an essential component of all legislation.
Gough, Tracy Vaughan | 2011]
- Author(s): Gough, Tracy Vaughan
- Publisher: Gender & governance programme in Kenya (GGP)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, popular participation, political participation, sex roles, capacity building, empowerment, women's status, kenya
This document outlines how one organization in marginalized Pokot North in Kenya addressed the patriarchal culture, which inhibits women from participating in the governance of their communities and country.
Gough, Vaughan Tracy | 2011]
- Author(s): Gough, Vaughan Tracy
- Publisher: Gender & governance programme in Kenya (GGP)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, parliamentary government, associations, capacity building, kenya
The Kenya Women Parliamentary Association (KEWOPA), was created to ensure that issues affecting women are integrated into legislation. This case study documents some of the successes over the years and some of the challenges faced by KEWOPA, the secretariat and its members.
Groverman, Verona and Kloosterman, Jeanette and Tsega, Lebesech and Metz, Nicole and Dipo-Salami, Bunmi | 2010
- Author(s): Groverman, Verona and Kloosterman, Jeanette and Tsega, Lebesech and Metz, Nicole and Dipo-Salami, Bunmi
- Publisher: Oxfam Novib
- Pages: --
- Keywords: gender mainstreaming, nongovernmental organizations, capacity building, manuals
This manual aims to support gender experts in South America, the Horn of Africa, West, East, Central and Southern Africa, South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, in the implementation of the gender mainstreaming and leadership trajectory.