Kasule, Florence | 2005
- Author(s): Kasule, Florence
- Publisher: Action for development (ACFODE)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: gender, budgeting, capacity building, manuals, uganda
This training manual is designed as a guide for ACFODE trainers who are involved in capacity building of policy makers and other stakeholders in at district and sub-county levels in Uganda in gender budgeting.
Keane, Rory and Jacob, Margarete | 2009
- Author(s): Keane, Rory and Jacob, Margarete
- Publisher: OECD
- Pages: --
- Keywords: gender mainstreaming, justice, social security, institution building
The importance of integrating gender issues into security system reform processes and to support the creation of security and justice institutions that are representative, accountable, rights-respecting and responsive to the specific security and justice needs of women, girls, men and boys is shown.
Kellow, Tim | cop. 2010
- Author(s): Kellow, Tim
- Publisher: International alert
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, political participation, liberia, sierra leone, west africa
This paper draws on local views to provide a largely qualitative assessment of the current state of women’s political participation in Liberia and Sierra Leone ahead of their forthcoming elections. It also recommends actions to advance women’s political participation further in the two countries.
Khan, Haider A. | 2007
- Author(s): Khan, Haider A.
- Publisher: University of Tokyo]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women's rights, human rights, democracy
The paper develops the social capabilities approach to women's rights as human rights. Having introduced deep democracy as a structure in addition to formal democratic apparatus, it shows that the social capabilities approach, women's rights and deep democracy are related in an intimate way.
Khan, Virginia A. and Bibi, Shakila | 2008
- Author(s): Khan, Virginia A. and Bibi, Shakila
- Publisher: IDRC. Regional office for South Asia
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, affirmative action programmes, political participation, local government, pakistan
The relevance of political decentralization in Pakistan to women councillors’ roles as public representatives is analysed, including whether electoral affirmative action has granted legitimacy to women as political actors with a voice, agency capacity to respond to the needs of their constituents.