Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Strengthening PRS monitoring project

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  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Government of Pakistan
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, government budgeting, poverty alleviation, pakistan
Pakistan launched the Strengthening Poverty Reduction Strategy Monitoring Project to strengthen institutional capacities for results-based monitoring and evaluation of poverty reduction strategies. Gender-responsive budgeting is one of the tools introduced under the Project.

Gender responsive budgeting

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  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations development fund for women (UNIFEM) [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, budgeting, government budgeting
The website strives to support efforts of governments, women’s organizations, members of parliaments and academics to ensure that planning and budgeting effectively respond to gender equality goals. It also provides resources, assessments and training materials on gender responsive budgeting.

Democracy and gender

| cop. 2008-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International institute for democracy and electoral assistance (International IDEA)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, political participation, political representation, affirmative action programmes, democracy, political parties, parliamentary government
International IDEA is committed to providing comparative information and research on how to overcome the obstacles to women’s political participation and to advance gender and democracy issues in general, and to promote the participation and representation of women in political life in particular.

The Initiative for inclusive security

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  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Hunt alternatives fund
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, popular participation, peace
The Institute for Inclusive Security uses research, training, and advocacy to promote the inclusion of all stakeholders, particularly women, in peace processes.

Resource kit [equality and justice in the family]

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  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Sisters in Islam
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender equality, justice, citizenship, family law, islam, muslims, reference materials, islamic countries
The Resource Kit provides ideas and arguments that can be used to advocate for equality and justice in Muslim family laws and practices. The local context and people’s needs will determine which argument works best in that environment.
 

About this portal

This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on women’s political participation & representation, women’s rights, institutional mainstreaming, and decentralization & local governance. Find your resources in the database.