Gender and governance : overview report
- United Kingdom BRIDGE development - gender 2009
- vi,74p.
1. Acronyms 2. Executive Summary 3. Introduction 4. Why Focus on Gender and its Governance? 5. Governance - Its Levels and Institutions 6. What Questions does this report answer? 7. What does this report contribute to debates? 8. Who is this report for? 9. Scope and Structure of the report 10. Governance: Concepts, Goals, and Principles 11. What is Governance? 12. Definitions of Governance 13. Levels of Governance 14. What is effective or "good" governance? 15. Donor policy on gender and good governance: Strengths, gaps, and ways forward 16. Principles of Effective governance 17. Accountability 18. Transparency 19. Inclusiveness 20. Equity 21. Responsiveness 22.Upholding Rights 23. Following the Rule of law 24. Democracy 25. Citizenship 26. A brief history of governance 27. Economic growth, development and governance 28. Democratising governance 29. Rights and governance 30. Decentralization and governance 31. Socials justice and citizen lead governance processes 32. Governance - Through a Gender Lens 33. How gender sensitive are current goverances in their proccesses and instituions? 34. What are the roots of gender imbalance in governance? 35. What are the social roots of gender inequality in governance? 36. Why does the governance need to be gender sensitive? 37. Governance cannot be effective unless it had gender sensitivity at its core 38. Women have a right to participate in decisions that affect their lives 39. It will result in policies that promote gender equality and womens rights 40. It is a means to shifting gender norms 41. It is a means to more effective, equitable, resource allocation 42. What is gender Sensitive Governance? 43. Developing a gender sensitive definition of governance 44. Looking at the mechanisms of governance through a gender lens 45. Reframing citizenship through a gender lens 46. Reframing the goals of governance through a gender lens 47. Reframing the principles of governance through a gender lens 48. Practical Approaches to gender sensitive governance 49. Government and Gender 50. What is "the state"? 51. What are some of the gender inequalities in goverment? 52. Goverment Institutions themselves reinforce an unequal gender power balance 53. Women have to struggle against the system once in goverment 54. Gender equality and womens rights are not often seen as a priority 55. Gender sensitive reforms in government: opportunities and barriers 56. Women as voters 57. Quota systems: A critical assesment 58. Womens parties: An effective means to an end 59. National womens machineries: opportunities and barriers 60. Alternative state models and gender senstive governance 61. Gender Sensitive governances in their fragile states 62. Decentralised models of governance: spaces for gender equality 63. Gender Sensitive models of local governments 64. Service delivery reforms 65. Towards greater gender sensitivity in national and decentralised governments 66. A positive social and cultural environment is needed for gender sensitive governance 67. Gender sensitive asessments of government institutions are needed 68. For long term change, men within and outside governance must be on board 69. Gender Sensitive budgets are needed to ensure greater responsivness 70. Gender sensitive laws and gender equality goals must be translated into practice 71. A strong womens movement is vital for establishing a gender sensitive governance 72. CSOs must examine their own levels of gender senstivity 73. Citizen focused processes need to be inclusive 74. Global Governance and Gender 75. What is global governance? 76. How gender sensitive is global governance? 77. Gender and global governance; the role of the UN 78. The significance of human rights frameworks for global governance 79. UN reform and gender sensitive governance 80. Towards more gender sensitive governance in the UN 81. Trade global governance and gender 82. The role of the WTO in governance of trade and labor 83. Gendered perspectives on governance of global manufacturing processes 84. Towards more gender sensitive governance of global trade and labor 85. Gender sensitive governance: vision and practical approaches 86. A vision for gender sensitive governance 87. Reframing the goals and principles of governance 88. Identifying problems on a social level using research and audits 89. Identifying problems at an institutional level 90. Identifying solutions 91. Enabling greater inclusiveness in governance institutions and processes 92. Increasing gendered responsiveness of governance 93. Improving accountability and transparency of governance institutions 94. Improving processes for those holding governance institutions to account 95. Ensuring institutional standards for equity and adherence to the rule of law 96. Improving citizens rights particularly those of women 97. Cross cutting strategies 98. Gender mainstreaming 99. Developing effective gender and governance indicators 100. Using a rights based approach to governance 101. Creating new institutions and mechanisms 102. Shifting mindsets 103. Conclusion 104. Bibliography