Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Women's political participation in the Philippines : conversations, reflections and recommendations

Santos-Maranan, Aida F. and Endrinal Parreٌo, Nancy and Fabros, Alinaya | [ca. 2008]
  • Author(s): Santos-Maranan, Aida F. and Endrinal Parreٌo, Nancy and Fabros, Alinaya
  • Publisher: One world action
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, political representation, affirmative action programmes, budgeting, political participation, philippines
This report provides a history of the successes and challenges the women’s movements have faced in the Philippines by documenting the rise of feminist movements through to the current debates around quotas and gender budgets.

Gender-responsive government budgeting

Sarraf, Feridoun | 2003
  • Author(s): Sarraf, Feridoun
  • Publisher: International monetary fund (IMF)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender, gender mainstreaming, government budgeting
This paper examines the concept of gender-responsive government budgeting, and the extent of its implementation by national governments in both developed and developing countries.

Development cooperation beyond the aid effectiveness paradigm : a women's rights perspective : a discussion paper

Schoenstein, Anne and Alemany, Cecilia and Raaber, Natalie | 2011
  • Author(s): Schoenstein, Anne and Alemany, Cecilia and Raaber, Natalie
  • Publisher: Association of women's rights in development (AWID)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender mainstreaming, development assistance, women's rights, human rights, development strategies
This discussion paper unpacks how women’s rights advocates envision a development cooperation framework that takes into account gender equality and women's rights and that is truly inclusive, sustainable and just.

Female legislators and the promotion of women, children, and family policies in Latin America : The state of the world's children 2007 background paper

Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie A. | 2006
  • Author(s): Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie A.
  • Publisher: United nations children's fund (UNICEF)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, legislators, political representation, family law, legislation, latin america, argentina, colombia, costa rica
This paper examines whether female legislators represent the interests and concerns of women in Latin America, investigating men’s and women’s attitudes and bill initiation behaviour on women’s, children’s, and family issues focusing on Argentina, Colombia, and Costa Rica.

Measuring democratic governance : a framework for selecting pro-poor and gender sensitive indicators

Scott, Christopher and Wilde, Alexandra | 2006
  • Author(s): Scott, Christopher and Wilde, Alexandra
  • Publisher: United nations development programme (UNDP). Bureau for development policy [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: governance, social indicators, gender, poverty, democracy, manuals
A framework for generating pro-poor gender sensitive indicators is provided to assist policy-makers monitor and evaluate democratic governance at the country level. The guide claims to be sufficiently flexible to accommodate a variety of definitions of poverty.
 

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