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Focus Groups and Polling

Focus groups and polling, otherwise known as public opinion research, can be effective mechanisms for gathering insight into the opinion of the target group, thereby allowing organizers to formulate an even stronger strategy for advocacy. Without support from key constituencies and the public at-large, advocacy agendas are less likely to be successful. Surveys, polling and focus groups can serve to shape the platform, refine the issues and enhance the effectiveness of advocacy and lobbying efforts.

From the Library

Consolidated Response on the Prevention of Family Voting

This consolidated response includes descriptions of family and proxy voting and provides recommendations on how to eliminate family voting through holding trainings and public awareness campaigns, strengthening legislative frameworks, and sensitizing election commissioners and observers on issues faced by women.

Making Invisible Work More Visible; Gender and Time Use Surveys with a Focus in the Pacific and Unpaid Care Work

This book looks at methodologies for time use surveys in developing countries, especially the Pacific and the importance of unpaid care work.

Guidelines for Gender Sensitive Disaster Management

These guidelines are a set of practical steps to assist governments, the non state sector and civil society to respond to women’s concerns and needs in post disaster situations. The guidelines have been developed based on the reports of the survey of women’s human rights violations in the aftermath of the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.

Women in Politics: Opinion Research Paper

This research paper aims to determine how the Turkish society perceives the participation of women in politics. Among other issues, the research was conducted to analyze people's attitude towards women's participation in political decision-making process, gender quotas in political parties, and the role of political parties in the advancement of women in politics.

Public Awareness about Discrimination against Women and Gender Related Human Rights Violations in Republika Srpska

This report identifies differences in attitudes between men and women toward discrimination against women and gender related human rights violations. It also focuses on the attitudes of female and male citizens toward the work of the official institutions responsible for the implementation of Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and Gender Equality Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Strengthening Democracy Through Women's Political Participation

This document contains the reports from four panels featured in the seminar, "Emerging Issues in Asia," held in April 1999. These panels focused on effective strategies for human rights and legal reform; the participation of women in politics and other sectors of society; governance reform in the aftermath of the Asian economic crisis; and the current security challenges in Northeast Asia. It focuses specifically on experiences in Nepal, Mongolia, and Sri Lanka.

Why Women, What Politics

This paper attempts to explain the obstacles to women's public and political power in the Asia-Pacific region. It highlights the need for gender-sensitive politics and lists several reasons why women's participation is important in the political sphere. It also offers suggestions for increasing women's involvement in public and political affairs.

Legislative Advocacy for Women's Rights: Training Candidates for Local Elections in Cotabato, Philippines

The project, “Legislative Advocacy for Women’s Rights,” aimed to facilitate Filipino women's full, informed participation in political life by increasing their presence in local elections and government, focusing primarily on the Cotabato Province in Mindanao, Philippines. This report describes the objectives, results, and lessons learned from the project.