Gender, Citizenship and Governance--A Global Sourcebook.Gender, Citizenship and Governance--A Global Sourcebook This book presents four case studies: from India, Namibia, Pakistan and South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , describing civil society initiatives that have intervened in governance and brought about changes in institutional practice, aiming to secure strategic gender interests. The case studies focus on the following issues: Decentralisation n. 1. same as decentralization. Noun 1. decentralisation - the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments decentralization spreading, spread - act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time process and women: the case of Kerala, India; Engendering institutions in Pakistan; Customary law reform in the new South Africa; A case study of the 50/50 Campaign in Namibia, focusing on women's grass-roots participation. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This publication aims to incorporate issues of gender equality into the global debates on good governance The terms governance and good governance are increasingly being used in development literature. Governance describes the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented). that arose in the 1990s from the growing realisation that conventional development efforts had failed to eliminate poverty and inequality inequality, in mathematics, statement that a mathematical expression is less than or greater than some other expression; an inequality is not as specific as an equation, but it does contain information about the expressions involved. . The good governance agenda envisaged building accountability of public administration institutions to the public they are supposed to serve. However, the good governance agenda did not automatically address the question of gender equality. These national case studies are complemented by a global perspective on governance and gender in the form of the 'state of the art' introduction, an annotated bibliography An annotated bibliography is a bibliography that gives a summary of the research that has been done. It is still an alphabetical list of research sources. In addition to bibliographic data, an annotated bibliography provides a brief summary or annotation. of the international literature on this subject, and a review of relevant web sources. KIT Publishers & Oxfam GB, 2004 |
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