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Long Summary |
| Title |
A New Weave of Power, People and Politics, The
Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation |
| Author |
VeneKlasen , L. with Miller, V. |
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January 2002 |
| Publisher |
World Neighbours |
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Long Summary |
How can we address gender inequality and exclusion
through promotion of political participation and citizenship? Advocacy
around legislation and policy-making, and around values and behaviour,
can challenge systems that exclude women and other disadvantaged groups.
This manual which is aimed at NGOs, donor institutions, development
agencies and trainers, presents concrete strategies to strengthen
citizen participation, awareness and organisation. Information is
provided on the political processes and institutions that must be
negotiated/approached and exercises, tools, resources, stories and
diagrams are included which help link concepts to action.
All materials can be easily copied for training and workshops. The
three areas covered are: understanding politics (key concepts); planning
advocacy (tools, political angles, problem analysis); and doing advocacy
(action-orientated tips and case studies). Although the guide is not
explicitly gender-focussed, a gender perspective is present throughout,
and many examples are of gender-related interventions and/or policies.
In the description of ‘triangle analysis’ to map an effective
advocacy strategy, the example of domestic violence policy is used.
A table of analysis is suggested which divides the issue into content
(what’s in the policy), structure (how policy is carried out)
and culture (social norms that effect the carrying out of policies).
This is then used to create a similar table which contains corresponding
strategies for each point of analysis. For example a point in the
analysis which identifies the lack of reporting of domestic violence
in hospitals identifies a corresponding strategy of training hospital
personnel. Under the ‘culture’ section, a point of analysis
which sees women blaming themselves for abuse suggests media campaigns
to show domestic violence as a public concern and a crime.
For a copy of this publication contact Pact Publications, 1200 18th
Street NW Suite 350, Washington DC 20036 USA, Tel. (202) 466-5666,
Fax (202) 466-5669, E-mail books@pacthq.org |
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