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Advocacy and lobbying are activities that represent and promote the needs of specific groups in political and social arenas. One such group is women, who can collectively pressure their leaders for legislative reforms to protect and promote women’s rights and concerns. It is the goal of advocacy groups and lobbyists to ensure that both the public and politicians understand and support their cause, so that it gains strength and credibility. Securing rights and gains for women requires coalition-building, funding, civic education, awareness-raising and individuals willing to lead the way.

While the goals of advocacy and lobbying are similar, the processes are distinctly different. Advocacy involves gaining and exercising power to influence a political action. Employing methods such as demonstrations, public campaigns and civic education, advocacy can be the primary mission of international agencies and civil society organizations seeking to influence global and national decision makers. Women worldwide frequently organize themselves for advocacy purposes, drawing on their collective power to affect legislation, official policies and governmental programs. Lobbying, however, refers to influencing the government and its leaders. Lobbyists attempt to sway policy makers and legislators to address specific issues, often by introducing or revising legislation and policy. Lobbying activities may include private meetings with decision makers, public campaigns and demonstrations.

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A View Of Women's Political Leadership From iKNOW Experts

Submitted by vawotwi on Tue, 2007-06-26 21:00

It is a widely held view that women in prominent government roles will represent the needs and concerns of women.

UNESCO & IGNOU - Gender Training Kit

This gender training kit brings you resources on gender and development drawn from the World Wide Web and audio/video/print materials. There are seven gender training modules in the kit. They are designed in self-instructional format and include lessons, self assessment and tests for evaluation. The content areas include:

Module 1: Dimensions of Empowerment and Gender Training
Module 2: Gender-sensitive Policies, Interventions and Institutions
Module 3: Media, Methods and Approaches in Gender Training
Module 4: Education and Research
Module 5: Leadership
Module 6: Governance
Module 7: Entrepreneurship

To find out details about the training kit please visit the URL below.

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Gender Training Wiki

The UN INSTRAW Gender Training Wiki is intended to provide a centralized resource centre for gender trainers, academics, gender mainstreaming, knowledge management & development experts and practitioners , as well as individuals and organizations in general looking for gender training opportunities and resources and funding for their activities.

UN INSTRAW staff regularly updates the information in the Gender Training Wiki. However, the Wiki is a participatory resource centre and the intention is that this site will be self sustaining and the community of registered users will upload and comment on content as well as benefiting from content uploaded by others.

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Making Governance Gender Responsive

This online course is composed of ten modules on the theme "Gender Responsive Governance". The modules are developed by the Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP). The funding for the module development was provided by APGEN, the United Nations Development Programme's Regional Gender Program (UNDP-APGEN) .

The course seeks to develop the public's understanding of the link between gender and governance as well as to increase the awareness of gender biases in governance.

Each module has an introduction; a pre-test that users must take to analyze his/her initial understanding of the lessons covered in each module; the lessons proper; and a post test to evaluate what the users have learned from each module.

To find more details on registration and the course please visit Online Women in Politics.

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Women in Leadership Forum India

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-03-18 12:46
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New Delhi
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India
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Where would the world be with more women leaders?
As the topic suggests, this session will address how decision making can impact differently under women’s leadership on key issues. The root of the global crisis will be highlighted while discussing the path followed by women leaders: is it cost cutting or is it an investment? Women leaders from the political, business and social fields share their thoughts and success stories on the topic and how their strategies make a difference. Could there be ‘Lehman Sisters’?

Expanding the role of women in society is essential to build strong economies
• Discuss promoting women entrepreneurship.
• Identify the right business sector to start with.
• Discover support of family and society.
• Learn about your financing options.
• Get statistics from the industry and registrations.
• Encourage and promote competitiveness.
• Discover the difference between working for public or private sectors.

Moving up ladder to top management
• Address the ways in which organisations can enhance women leadership.
• Experts share their perspectives on policies and approaches that encourage increase retention, strengthen job satisfaction, promote competitiveness and brace work-life balance.
• Discover which types of organisations are hiring more women in senior positions.

To find further details please visit Women in Leadership Forum India.


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Gender Equality and sustainable development in the attainment of Millennium Development Goals

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-03-18 12:41
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Benin City
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Benin
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Banquet Hall University of Benin, Benin
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In this era of globalization there is need to investigate gender in all its ramifications; in the areas of technology, education and development. It has become imperative that gender and its related disciplines or scholarship be integrated / incorporated in all areas of education and development.

Development is about people and emphasis on gender will help to enforce or evaluate the Millennium development goals, their success and failure levels. This intervention through this international conference will have relevance in bringing together various researches, gender policy formulation, improve skill acquisition and capacity building.

Download the Bronchure here...and here
Registration information here
Contact Information: Prof. Abigail Imogie.


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World: Open Forum: Will the U.S. follow India's example?

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-03-18 04:07
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The leadership of women in politics took a new turn in 1993 when India put into place a 50 percent quota for women at the level of local governance. From 1993 onward, more than 1 million women have served on Indian village, block and district-level councils.

On March 8, the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, a bill was proposed in the Indian parliament -- and successfully passed the next day -- imposing a 33 percent quota for women in India's federal and state assemblies.

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To read the complete news piece please visit SFGate.


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Philippines: Reproductive Health Tests Candidates’ Political Guts

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-17 20:35
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Filipino voters who have yet to make up their minds about their choice for their next president are being advised: look at each aspirant’s stance on reproductive health to help them gauge the candidate’s leadership mettle and political guts.

A candidate’s position on issues like reproductive health, which has a long history of opposition from the Catholic Church in this mainly Catholic country, reveals clues regarding his or her capacity for governance, says Ramon San Pascual, head of the Philippine Legislative Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD).

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To read the complete news piece please visit IPS News.


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Global Pulse 2010

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-17 11:52
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Online
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Online
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http://www.globalpulse2010.gov/index.html
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Global Pulse 2010 is a 3-day, online collaboration event, that will bring together individual socially-engaged participants and organizations from around the world. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is sponsoring the Global Pulse 2010, in partnership with the Departments of State, Education, Commerce, and Health and Human Services.

As the name implies, the event will take the pulse of as many as 20,000 participants on key issues facing communities around the world. Global Pulse 2010 will connect participants who are champions for the same social issues to build new, or strengthen existing relationships, and inform U.S. foreign assistance and diplomatic strategies on major themes and ideas that emerge across the span of the event.

Individual discussions will take place within forums and will focus on ten designated topics. Participants can choose to participate in any of the discussion areas that interest them the most. To see the complete list please visit Global Pulse 2010.


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Tanzania: Donors push gender agenda

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-17 09:09
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The European Union (EU) delegation in Tanzania revealed its "Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Tanzania for the period 2010-2012," which will be presented in Dar es Salaam. It is the first of its kind, representing a collective effort by EU member states to "strengthen and coordinate action on gender issues at country-level." The EU collectively by large is Tanzania's biggest donor.

The new action plan is to promote the establishment of gender-sensitive domestic accountability mechanisms as an integral part of good governance. This is set to hold the government accountable to its citizens and empower women and men to voice their interests and needs, especially at local level. The new EU Gender Action Plan aims at capacity building of key stakeholders, strengthening accountability, monitoring and evaluation systems using gender-sensitive performance indicators and supporting concrete actions to redress situations where women and girls are particularly disadvantaged.

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To read the complete story please visit Afrol News.


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