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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
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...
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Participation, Values, and Implementation: Three Research Challenges in Developing Gender-sensitive Indicators
This article critically reviews three key research challenges that emerged as a result of developing gender-sensitive indicators for an NGO in South Africa.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Positive Action in the Field of Equality Between Women and Men
This report aims to give as comprehensive a picture as possible of positive action, to explain how it interrelates with the principle of non-discrimination and how it interacts with other tools, such as gender mainstreaming.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Participatory Approaches to Increasing Women’s Voice in CDD Projects: Example from Indonesia
This report highlights key features of the approaches used in Indonesia to ensure women’s voice in community-driven development (CDD) projects. It focuses particularly on the Kecamatan Development Projects (KDP) and the Water and Sanitation for Low...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Preventing and Responding to Gender-based Violence in Middle and Low-income Countries: A Global Review and Analysis
This review focuses on two of the most common types of violence against women: physical intimate partner violence and sexual violence by any perpetrator. It provides definitions, recent statistics, health consequences, costs, and risk factors...
Monday, March 19, 2007
Progress of Arab Women 2004
This report examines the progress and challenges of achieving gender balance and women's empowerment in the Arab region. It analyzes the status of women in the region in a historical, political, ideological and social context, and examines current...
Monday, March 19, 2007
Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including From a Gender Perspective: Regional Seminar for Parliaments of South-West Asia
This report compiles the results of a seminar entitled, "Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including From a Gender Perspective," held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in May 2003. The seminar discussed themes such as the respective roles of government and...
Monday, March 12, 2007
Promoting Effective Democratic Reform in Semi-Authoritarian States and Pseudo-Democracies
This paper discusses the importance of promoting global democratic reform using tailored, country-specific approaches. It identifies several key factors of meaningful reform, as well as various issues that need to be addressed in semi-authoritarian...
Monday, March 12, 2007
Party Finance Reform in Africa, Lessons Learned from Four Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Senegal & South Africa
This report presents the findings of the second component of the African Political Party Finance Initiative, which aimed to increase awareness about the need for transparent and accountable party financing and to promote reforms appropriate to the...
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Presiding Officers: Speakers and Presidents of Legislatures
This paper examines the role of presiding officers in three general models of legislatures: the Westminster Model, the U.S. Congress Model, and the French Bureau Model. It elaborates on the characteristics of each model and outlines the distinct...
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Peru’s Political Party System and the Promotion of Pro-poor Reform
This paper analyzes Peru’s political party system as it affects the ability of democratically elected officials to drive pro-poor change. It reveals that Peru’s political system affects the poverty reduction process through the present structure of...
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Political Parties in Asia: Promoting Reform And Combating Corruption In Eight Countries
This report presents the research findings of a project conducted by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and the Council for Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) on Political Party Strategies to Combat Corruption. The...
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Political Parties and Democracy in Theoretical and Practical Perspectives: Developments in Party Communications
This paper considers the possible approaches to creating more effective and inclusive political parties. It focuses on the communication channels that parties can use to strengthen their relationships with citizens and to promote fair elections. It...
Friday, February 23, 2007
Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including From a Gender Perspective: Regional Seminar (Philippines)
This report compiles the speeches and presentations made during the seminar entitled, "Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including from a Gender Perspective," held in Manila, Philippines in July 2002. The seminar discussed themes such as...
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Politics: Women's Insight
This study analyzes the political experiences of women from all over the world, based on a series of interviews with women politicians conducted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). It highlights women's specific contribution to the political...
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including from a Gender Perspective (Kenya)
This report compiles the speeches and presentations made during the seminar entitled, "Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including from a Gender Perspective," held in Nairobi, Kenya in May 2000. The seminar brought together participants from...
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Pakistan - Country Report Based on Research and Dialogue with Political Parties
This report provides information on political parties in Pakistan. It examines the internal functioning and structure of the political parties, as well as the external regulations and environment which shape their work.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Parliamentary Development: Gender Perspective
This report argues that women in parliament can have a positive impact on the political process and strongly advocates for gender equality in parliament. It also includes a brief case study of women legislators in Rwanda.

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