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    Political Reform to Increase Quotas for Women in Parliament: The Use of Electoral Gender Quotas in Rwanda

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2007
    Electoral gender quotas accelerated greater representation of women in the Rwandan Parliament, with 48.8 per cent of parliamentary seats, the highest in the world after the first ever multiparty elections. While the use of electoral gender quotas is a useful and important mechanism, multiple factors produced the Rwandan success.
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    Increasing Women's Political Representation: New Trends in Gender Quotas

    International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2005
    The aim of electoral quotas is to increase - and safeguard - women's presence in Parliaments. Quotas for women mean that women must constitute a certain number or percentage of the members of a body, whether it is a candidate list, a parliamentary assembly, a committee or a government. There are three main ways in which quotas can work:
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    Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers - A Revised Edition

    2005
    Women's access to the legislature is covered in three steps by this handbook: (1) it looks into the obstacles women confront when entering Parliament - be they political, socio-economic, ideological or psychological; (2) it presents solutions to overcome these obstacles, such as changing electoral systems and introducing quotas; and (3) it details strategies for women to influence politics once th
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    Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development

    Zed Books Limited, 1997
    How can we make gender equity routine in development organisations and challenge the legitimacy of forms of social organisation which discriminate against women? The authors in this edited collection offer a range of reflections and propose a range of solutions including:
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    Institutions, Relations and Outcomes: Framework and Tools for Gender-Aware Planning

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1996
    There is well-documented evidence that failure to integrate gender awareness into policy and planning processes gives rise to a variety of equity, welfare and efficiency costs.
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    The Politics of Democratic Governance: Organising for Social Inclusion and Gender Equity

    One World Action, 2007
    Democratic governance involves developing institutions and processes that are more responsive to the needs of ordinary citizens.
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    Governing Women: Women's Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform

    Routledge, 2008
    Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16 per cent on average, there are some striking examples: 49 per cent of Rwanda's assembly is female, Argentina's stands at 35 per cent, and Liberia and Chile's new women presidents have raised expectations of an upward trend in women's representation, from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance.
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    Just Politics: Women Transforming Political Spaces

    One World Action, 2008
    In November 2007, the British non-governmental organisation (NGO) One World Action brought together 40 women and men from different countries of the global north and south for a unique initiative called Just Politics: Women transforming political spaces. The dialogue explored what difference women in power can make, and how women's involvement in politics can be supported and strengthened.
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    Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2008
    The evidence reflected throughout this report suggests that despite formal guarantees of equality, progress for many women, particularly the poorest and most marginal, has been far too slow. Who answers to women?
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    Gendering Governance

    Publishers WWW sites, 2008
    Governance has become a central concept used by policymakers and politicians at the local, national, regional and global levels - as well as by political and other social scientists.

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