Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Gender and local governance : a new discourse in development

Shamin, Ishrat and Kumari, Ranjana | 2002
  • Author(s): Shamin, Ishrat and Kumari, Ranjana
  • Publisher: Centre for women and children studies [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, political participation, local government, bangladesh, india
The study is broadly an attempt to analyze the emerging scenario of women leadership at local politics by focusing on the elected women representatives of Union Parishad of Bangladesh compared to their counterparts in Panchayats of India.

Gender responsive budgets (GRB's) have a place in financing gender equality and women's empowerment

Sharp, Rhonda | 2007
  • Author(s): Sharp, Rhonda
  • Publisher: UN. Department of economic and social affairs. Division for the advancement of women
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender mainstreaming, budgeting, pacific islands (trust territory), melanesia
Drawing on Australasian and the Pacific Island Countries and Territorities’ experiences, it is looked at how government’s achievements in gender responsive budgeting can be assessed and how gender responsive budgeting can be made sustainable in the face of change.

Budgeting for equity : gender budget initiatives within a framework of performance oriented budgeting

Sharp, Rhonda | 2003
  • Author(s): Sharp, Rhonda
  • Publisher: United nations development fund for women (UNIFEM)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender, government budgeting, budgeting, budget performance
This research was undertaken to explore the implications for gender responsive budget initiatives of public sector ‘performance oriented’ reforms in government budgeting. It poses the question: can performance oriented budgeting serve as a framework for making budgets more gender responsive?

Integrating gender into public expenditure : lessons from the Republic of the Marshall Islands

Sharp, Rhonda and Vas Dev, Sanjugta | 2006
  • Author(s): Sharp, Rhonda and Vas Dev, Sanjugta
  • Publisher: Brigham Young university-Hawaii [etc.]
  • Pages: 83--105
  • Keywords: gender mainstreaming, government budgeting, budgeting, marshall islands
In 2003, the Republic of the Marshall Islands introduced a gender budget initiative (GBI) as a strategy for promoting gender equality. The factors that have enabled and constrained the initiative are analysed and key lessons are offered.

Political parties, electoral system and women's representation in the 2004-2009 Indonesian parliaments

Siregar, Wahidah Zein Br | 2006
  • Author(s): Siregar, Wahidah Zein Br
  • Publisher: Australian national university (ANU). Centre for democratic institutions
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, political participation, parliamentary government, affirmative action programmes, indonesia
Despite the adoption of a quota system adopted in Indonesia in 2004, only a small proportion of women being elected to the Indonesian national parliament. The greatest obstacles to women's election are found in the institutional design of electoral systems and the structure of political parties.
 

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