Author: Uma Gengaiah
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783846513705
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act of India has brought women to the local level institutions as decision makers. But the experience of capacity building programmes conducted by various training agencies for Gram Panchayat Women leaders has shown that they demand institutional mechanism for the continuous flow of information and support structure to stabilize their development activities. The felt needs of the women leaders to fulfill their responsibilities are not adequately fulfilled by these training agencies. This has created a demand for a full-fledged support structures for women local body leaders. In the absence of any external support, the elected women leaders thought that they can create an outfit on their own. Against this background, the Elected Women Representatives (EWRs) formed their network and organized meetings. But, whether collectivizing/federating women elected to local self-government can provide a valuable platform for raising their voice for shifting gender relations and bringing more women into leadership with the capacity to influence development design is a major question. The study assumed that the more the initiatives to build capacity and netw
Gender and Governance at Grassroots
Author: Uma Gengaiah
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783846513705
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act of India has brought women to the local level institutions as decision makers. But the experience of capacity building programmes conducted by various training agencies for Gram Panchayat Women leaders has shown that they demand institutional mechanism for the continuous flow of information and support structure to stabilize their development activities. The felt needs of the women leaders to fulfill their responsibilities are not adequately fulfilled by these training agencies. This has created a demand for a full-fledged support structures for women local body leaders. In the absence of any external support, the elected women leaders thought that they can create an outfit on their own. Against this background, the Elected Women Representatives (EWRs) formed their network and organized meetings. But, whether collectivizing/federating women elected to local self-government can provide a valuable platform for raising their voice for shifting gender relations and bringing more women into leadership with the capacity to influence development design is a major question. The study assumed that the more the initiatives to build capacity and netw
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783846513705
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act of India has brought women to the local level institutions as decision makers. But the experience of capacity building programmes conducted by various training agencies for Gram Panchayat Women leaders has shown that they demand institutional mechanism for the continuous flow of information and support structure to stabilize their development activities. The felt needs of the women leaders to fulfill their responsibilities are not adequately fulfilled by these training agencies. This has created a demand for a full-fledged support structures for women local body leaders. In the absence of any external support, the elected women leaders thought that they can create an outfit on their own. Against this background, the Elected Women Representatives (EWRs) formed their network and organized meetings. But, whether collectivizing/federating women elected to local self-government can provide a valuable platform for raising their voice for shifting gender relations and bringing more women into leadership with the capacity to influence development design is a major question. The study assumed that the more the initiatives to build capacity and netw
Governing Women
Author: Anne Marie Goetz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135911061
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women into public office is just the first step in the challenge of creating governance and accountability systems that respond to women’s needs and protect their rights. Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women’s interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women. The book’s argument is that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than more women in politics. It requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support gender equality.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135911061
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women into public office is just the first step in the challenge of creating governance and accountability systems that respond to women’s needs and protect their rights. Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women’s interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women. The book’s argument is that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than more women in politics. It requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support gender equality.
Governing NOW
Author: Maryann Barakso
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501726749
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Boasting more than five hundred thousand contributing members and five hundred chapters nationwide, the National Organization for Women has been politically active for more than thirty-five years. In a book that offers tools for predicting the long-term viability of a range of organizations, Maryann Barakso traces the political development of NOW. According to Barakso, NOW's activities and the stances it has taken throughout its history have been shaped primarily by the organization's internal political system. Established during the group's founding period, NOW's governance structure consists of a set of principles and institutional rules that continue to guide the group's internal political dynamics and its decision-making. Focusing on interactions between NOW leaders and rank-and-file members, Barakso reveals how the organization's internal structure affects its development and its participation in the wider political arena. The author also reveals why strategic change has always been such a contentious issue for the organization, the ways in which NOW enhances civic and political engagement, and the limits on NOW's future mobilizing capacity. Governing NOW contributes to a deeper understanding of membership-based voluntary associations: why they choose some goals and tactics over others, why they invest resources as they do, and why they join or abstain from coalition politics.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501726749
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Boasting more than five hundred thousand contributing members and five hundred chapters nationwide, the National Organization for Women has been politically active for more than thirty-five years. In a book that offers tools for predicting the long-term viability of a range of organizations, Maryann Barakso traces the political development of NOW. According to Barakso, NOW's activities and the stances it has taken throughout its history have been shaped primarily by the organization's internal political system. Established during the group's founding period, NOW's governance structure consists of a set of principles and institutional rules that continue to guide the group's internal political dynamics and its decision-making. Focusing on interactions between NOW leaders and rank-and-file members, Barakso reveals how the organization's internal structure affects its development and its participation in the wider political arena. The author also reveals why strategic change has always been such a contentious issue for the organization, the ways in which NOW enhances civic and political engagement, and the limits on NOW's future mobilizing capacity. Governing NOW contributes to a deeper understanding of membership-based voluntary associations: why they choose some goals and tactics over others, why they invest resources as they do, and why they join or abstain from coalition politics.
Women in Grass-root Governance
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788131611180
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788131611180
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Capability of Elected Women Representatives on Gender Issues in Grassroots Governance
Author: Joseph Vanishree
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180697333
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Study conducted in Dindigul District of Tamil Nadu, India.
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180697333
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Study conducted in Dindigul District of Tamil Nadu, India.
Gender and Grassroots Democracy
Author: Maria Nassali
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Gender Politics in Global Governance
Author: Mary K. Meyer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847691616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This volume draws together a wide range of exciting new research that looks at the gendered nature of the institutions, practices, and discourses of global governance.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847691616
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This volume draws together a wide range of exciting new research that looks at the gendered nature of the institutions, practices, and discourses of global governance.
Gender and Grassroots Democracy
Author: Frank Emmanuel Muhereza
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Gender, Development and Environmental Governance
Author: Seema Arora-Jonsson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415890373
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book questions the conventional belief that development brings about greater gender equality and better environmental management. Based on participatory research and in-depth fieldwork, Arora-Jonsson studies struggles for local forest management, the making of women's groups within them and how the women's groups became a threat to mainstream institutions. Engaging seriously with academic debates on gender, environment and development, this volume contributes to a much-needed dialogue among these fields.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415890373
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book questions the conventional belief that development brings about greater gender equality and better environmental management. Based on participatory research and in-depth fieldwork, Arora-Jonsson studies struggles for local forest management, the making of women's groups within them and how the women's groups became a threat to mainstream institutions. Engaging seriously with academic debates on gender, environment and development, this volume contributes to a much-needed dialogue among these fields.
Engendering Governance and Development
Author: Sangeetha Purushothaman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex role
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Case studies with reference to: Turkey, Kenya, Czechoslovakia, India and Nicaragua.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex role
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Case studies with reference to: Turkey, Kenya, Czechoslovakia, India and Nicaragua.