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    Measuring democratic governance: a framework for developing for selecting pro-poor and gender sensitive indicators

    United Nations Development Programme, 2006
    The aim of the guide is to provide a framework for generating pro-poor gender sensitive indicators to assist policy-makers monitor and evaluate democratic governance at the country level.The guide uses International IDEA’s Democracy Assessment Framework as the source for the basic principles and values required to derive a set of pro-poor gender sensitive indicators of democratic governance.
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    Beyond inequalities: women in Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network, 2005
    This report presents a gender analysis of the status of women and girls in Zimbabwe in the wider economic, social and political context.
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    Creating spaces for change: women’s empowerment and the case of panchayati raj in India

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    This research paper examines the theory of women’s empowerment, and explores the challenges faced by practitioners and policy makers in implementing this theory. Using the case study of women in panchayati raj (Indian village councils), the author analysis the concept of empowerment through the lens of boundaries and spaces.
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    Political parties: when do they work for women?

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005
    This paper analyses the interaction of gender issues with political parties in Latin America in order to assess the relationship between them and establish under what circumstances political parties best incorporate gender demands and contribute to mainstream the gender perspective.In Latin America, political parties are advancing gender-related initiatives.
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    Indian experience of women’s quota in local government: implications for future strategies

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005
    This paper examines the implementation of reservations and quotas for women in Indian politics.
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    Creating an outer circle in the digital world: participation of women in the e-government system

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    This paper argues for the incorporation of gender equity and women’s agenda in ICT policies to combat the exclusion-inclusion syndrome of digital power relations. It focuses on the situation in the Gambia.The current digital era has opened up a space for participation in governance through alternate means.
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    Thai-Buddhist leadership and Muslim grassroots women in the game of "terrorism" war: the unrest southern Thailand crisis

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005
    This report examines women’s political participation and leadership in the context of the current political situation in Thailand.The author argues that in Thailand there is new awareness of gender issues, even though the number of women in leading positions remains unacceptably low.
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    Nigeria: political transition and the complexities ofgender empowerment

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005
    The paper looks at the inherent gender constraints and the role of individuals as catalysts for change in the Nigerian political process through a biographical sketch of Representative Patricia Etteh.Nigeria experienced democratic transition in 1999 and a peaceful transfer of power from one elected government to another.
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    Keeping an eye on the campaign: monitoring media coverage of the 16 days of activism: no violence against women and children campaign

    Media Monitoring Project, South Africa, 2005
    This report is an analysis of media coverage of the 2004 "16 days of Activism: No Violence Against Women" campaign in South Africa. The study also compares media coverage of gender-based violence and woman and child abuse over the last seven years. The authors also present MMP’s strategies for the campaign including their process for selecting companies as partners.
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    Gender mainstreaming or just more male-streaming?: experiences of popular participation in Bolivia

    Oxfam, 2005
    This article provides a critical analysis of an attempt to effectively mainstream gender into the political process in Bolivia. The Law of Popular Participation (LPP), which was implemented in Bolivia from 1994, is widely seen as the first significant attempt by policy makers in the region to mainstream gender into a national development initiative.

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