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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 14: Gender and Citizenship

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    How can working with ideas of citizenship help promote gender equality? Starting from the perspective of people as citizens can enable development actors to support struggles for rights and participation for those marginalised on the basis of gender.
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    Gender and Citizenship: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    Citizenship is an abstract concept and therefore great care must be taken in explaining what it means in practice and what can effectively be done in the context of development interventions and policy. Development projects which enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship.
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    Gender and Citizenship: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    Feminists and women's rights activists have sought to reframe citizenship from a gender perspective and to show how struggles for women's rights must be seen as citizenship struggles that affect everyone in society rather than ?minority interests?. This idea of citizenship has been used to tackle exclusion on the basis of gender, for example with political quotas and affirmative action.
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    Gender and Citizenship Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    There are those for whom citizenship is a site of achievement, of power and validation of their place in the world - a way of achieving positive change and gaining a better standard of living for all groups.
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    Acces Equitable a l'information (Equitable Access to Information)

    IGED Madagascar Gender Network, 2003
    This is one of two booklets produced to assist with gender mainstreaming in development cooperation in Madagascar. This is the second entitled 'Fair access to Information'. The participation of the whole population in development activities, including of course women, is vital if development is to be just and sustainable. So how does this come about?
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    Closing The Gap: Putting EU and UK Gender Policies into Practice - South Africa, Nicaragua and Bangladesh

    One World Action, 2003
    Gender remains a low priority in European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) development cooperation despite policy commitments to the contrary and the fact that the majority of the poorest people in the world are women. This report explores the challenge of putting policies into practice.
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    Gender Equity and Local Governance: A Study of the San Salvador Municipal Gender Equity Policy

    One World Action, 2003
    In San Salvador the formulation of a Gender Equity Policy has been initiated by the women's movement over several years and has involved the participation of a wide range of community actors. One important element of citizenship is the interaction between individuals and policy arenas.
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    Guide to Launching a National Campaign for 50/50 in Government

    Centre for Legislative Development, 2001
    A 50/50 ratio of women and men in government is needed to ensure democracy, human rights and representation of women's needs and interests. The Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) international campaign for 50 per cent women in government demands that governments work for a critical mass of 30 per cent by 2003 and 50 per cent by 2005.
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    Gender and Citizenship: Learning from South Africa?

    Agenda Feminist Publishing, 2001
    In what ways does political transformation mean a change in meanings and practice of citizenship - in the relationships between individuals and the state? This paper discusses the experiences of women, particularly black women, of citizenship in South Africa, where the new administration promised a new politics based on civil society and universal citizenship.
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    Governing for Equity, Gender, Citizenship and Governance

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2003
    This publication comes out of the Gender, Citizenship and Governance programme of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands. The project aimed to develop good practice in changing governance institutions to promote gender equality, enhance citizen participation and build accountability of public administration systems.

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