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    Gender and Governance: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This Supporting Resources Collection - part of the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Governance - showcases existing work on gender and governance. It presents summaries of a mix of conceptual and research papers, policy briefings, advocacy documents, case study material, and practical tools from diverse regions and disciplines.
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    Gender and Governance: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    With their focus on democracy, transparency, accountability, inclusive citizenship and participatory processes there is huge potential in the ideas and practices of governance to catalyse real change in terms of gender equality. However, this potential remains largely untapped.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 21: Gender and Governance

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Governance processes - with their emphasis on principles of accountability, transparency, responsiveness and inclusiveness - should be a means to social transformation. But despite this potential, they are failing to deliver on gender equality.
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    Gender and Governance Cutting Edge Pack

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Put simply, governance refers to decision-making by a range of interested people (or 'stakeholders') including those in formal positions of power and 'ordinary' citizens. These decisions have a huge impact on the ways in which women and men lead their lives, on the rules they are expected to abide by, and on the structures that determine where and how they work and live.
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    UNDP Gender Mainstreaming Scorecard

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    UNDP has opted for mainstreaming gender as its main strategy to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment. To this end, it has developed a Gender Mainstreaming Scorecard - a tool which combines the measurement of institutional and programmatic performance on gender mainstreaming.
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    Guidelines for a Gender Analysis: Human Rights with a Gender Perspective, Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

    United Nations [UN] Commission on the Status of Women ., 2000
    Despite the failure of the Unite States (US) to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the City and County of San Francisco introduced a regulation to implement CEDAW at the local level. As part of the implementation, the City department must undertake a gender analysis of its budget allocations, service delivery, and employment practices.
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    Producing Shadow Reports to the CEDAW Committee: A Procedural Guide

    International Women's Rights Action Watch, 2009
    How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) ensure governments are implementing international law to protect women's rights? This is a practical guide for NGOs who wish to use the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to hold their governments accountable for upholding and enforcing women's rights.
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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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    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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