| Gender and Human Rights in the Commonwealth
Some Critical Issues for Action in the Decade 2005-2015
ISBN: 9780850928082
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:312
The purpose of this book is to contribute to current policy-making, programme planning and implementation on Gender and Human Rights. It is intended for a wide audience of policy makers, magistrates, judges and lawyers, academics and civil society organisations grappling with these issues.It is also intended as a conceptual and policy-oriented resource for those committed to implementing and supporting the Human Rights goals of the new Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015.
The papers address a wide range of Gender and Human Rights issues, including the convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), gender-based violence, culture and the law, indigenous peoples, trafficking and migration, land and property rights, diversity and a life cycle approach to gender and human rights.
This book brings together the papers commissioned for a Pan-Commonwealth Expert Group Meeting on Gender and Human Rights which took place at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London February 2004. These papers, together with other key background papers, represent much of the analysis and experience from Commonwealth member countries that informed the development of the Human Rights section of the new Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015.
£10.99
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| Gender and Trade Action Guide
A Training Resource
ISBN: 9780850928624
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:216
The links between gender, trade and development are increasingly being recognised. Developed out of a series of regional workshops, this Action Guide explores the different impacts of trade on women and men; provides practical tools on how to take advantage of the opportunities trade can offer to further development, alleviate poverty and promote gender equality; and suggests ways to get gender onto the international trade agenda.
The Action Guide is flexible and can be used by trainers or for self-study. It includes case studies, activities, training suggestions and recommended readings and can be used as a basic introduction or as a resource to develop capacity building for others.
It will enable people to take action and apply what is learned to their own context and requirements. Aimed at a broad spectrum of people coming at the issues from many different angles of trade or gender – government officers in relevant trade sectors, gender specialists, NGOs, regional trade policy advisers and more – it is intended particularly for people who are responsible for capacity building and bringing about change, for example through training, briefing or lobbying.
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| Gender Budgets Make More Cents
Country Studies and Good Practice
ISBN: 9780850927344
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:194
This book documents ‘good practice’ in gender budget work from across the globe. Practitioners share their first-hand experiences and in-depth knowledge of the why, where and how of gender responsive budget (GRB) initiatives. They reflect on both the challenges and successes of initiatives in the Andean region, Australia, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Rwanda, Scotland, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
A chapter on the Commonwealth Secretariat’s involvement in developing and implementing GRB initiatives is also included to suggest the role that can be played by external agencies at the national, regional and international level. This book builds on a previous publication, Gender Budgets Make Cents, (see below) which was designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of GRB initiatives. It described the conceptual framework, evolution of the work and lessons learned, and provided brief summaries of country initiatives.
Together, these titles show the importance of integrating a gender perspective into government budgets to promote equality between women and men. It is hoped that this book will be read by a wide range of people from government, multilateral and bilateral agencies and civil society, and inspire them to take forward gender budget work in their own country and organisation.
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| Gender in Primary and Secondary Education
A handbook for policy-makers and other stakeholders
New Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues
ISBN: 9780850928648
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:168
‘Backed up with a span of concrete examples covering both gaps and proposed strategies, the reasoning develops into a groundbreaking policy approach to equality in education.’ – Equals, Issue 20, April 2008 ‘It is interesting and thought provoking to read and provides a useful set of starting points for developing critical debate.’ - ESCalate
Gender in Primary and Secondary Education has been written in the context of rapidly expanding education systems worldwide, and particularly the rising enrolment of girls in schools. The author argues that now the challenge of gender mainstreaming goes beyond building schools and ensuring access, to sustaining these gains to secure the future of education for girls. Thus gender mainstreaming in education needs to address the more strategic questions of the relationship between education and wider development and change, and of the relationships between men and women in a rapidly changing world.
The handbook is divided into six chapters, examining key policy and ideological gender mainstreaming issues within education systems and identifying the scope for greater gender mainstreaming. Essential reading for civil servants involved in education sector management, policy planners, education policy analysts and professionals, civil society organisers, and academics.
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| Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation
Building Sustainable Peace
New Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues
ISBN: 9780850927542
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:232
Issues of socio-economic development, democracy and peace are inextricably linked to gender equality. The main argument of Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation: Building Sustainable Peace is that gender equality needs to be placed on the policy programme of the entire spectrum of peace and conflict-related initiatives and activities in order to achieve conflict transformation.
These include conflict prevention and early warning mechanisms; peace negotiations and agreements; peacekeeping, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration; truth and reconciliation commissions; post-conflict reconstruction; and peace building and peace education. In the Commonwealth, as globally, armed conflict has moved into the village, the community, the street and the home, resulting in a gendered distribution of suffering among women and girls, and men and boys.
What is less well known, however, is that women have been making significant contributions to peace processes and rebuilding their societies in all phases of the conflict. In recognition of this, in 2000 the United Nations Security Council made an urgent call in passing Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), for “the equal participation and full involvement of women in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security”, and emphasised “the need to increase their role in decision-making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution”. Commonwealth Members Responsible for Women’s/Gender Affairs, in their new Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015, reaffirmed the 30 per cent target for all women in all peace initiatives, which was endorsed by Heads of Government (CHOGM, Coolum, 2001), and encouraged member States to mainstream gender equality in all peace processes.
Gender Mainstreaming in Conflict Transformation: Building Sustainable Peace is intended as a contribution to the achievement of these goals. It grew out of a series of symposia and workshops held by the Commonwealth Secretariat in the post-Beijing decade in collaboration with other partners. These fora contributed a wealth of analysis and case studies that made it clear that women’s participation in processes of democratisation, as well as in a broad spectrum of peace initiatives in Commonwealth countries, were not just an ideal but rather a reality that needed to be better understood by policy makes and other political and social actors working in fields including democracy, development, peace and conflict.
This book brings together this body of work into an advocacy, capacity-building and policy tool to contribute to gender mainstreaming in all processes of conflict transformation and in building sustainable peace. As one of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s publications on gender mainstreaming in key development issues, it will be of interest to those working to achieve gender equality, peace, democracy and sustainable development, particularly in situations of armed and other forms of conflict.
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| Implementing Computerisation and Information Technology for Tax Administration
ISBN: 9780955354021
Publisher:Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:156
This publication offers guidance to revenue agencies that are thinking of implementing computerisation or information technology to improve the efficiency of their tax administration. It draws on the experience of Australia, Malaysia, Malta, Pakistan, Singapore and Tanzania, representing a range of information technology initiatives of varying scales, complexity and levels of maturity.
Rather than look at overall conceptual issues, which are already well covered elsewhere, this book looks at the finer details of implementation in order to identify lessons, ideas and opportunities, both at the planning and design phase, and during implementation and review and evaluation. Published by the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators and distributed by the Commonwealth Secretariat.
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| Improving People’s Lives
Lessons in Empowerment from Asia
NGO Experiences From The Regions
ISBN: 9780761996033
Publisher:Commonwealth Foundation and Sage Publications, India
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:210
This volume documents powerful lessons in empowerment drawn from the varied experiences of four Asian NGOs engaged respectively in participatory approaches to rural development (Pakistan), tackling the problems of violence against women (Malaysia), improving conditions for Tamil estate workers (Sri Lanka) and capacity-building for local and community-based organisation (India). Besides presenting a diverse range of approaches to people’s development, they also describe new trends among NGOs working with marginalised groups in Asia.
Offering a rare critique of the Asian experience from the viewpoint of people’s empowerment, this book provides many insights and lessons for NGOs, bureaucrats and administrators dealing with social and rural development, those in multilateral and intergovernmental organisations and funding agencies, and students of development and voluntary action.
Published by Sage Publications, India, in association with the Commonwealth Foundation.
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| Indigenous Women's Rights
Challenging Social and Gender Hierarchies
Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues
ISBN: 9780850928471
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:320
Indigenous Women’s Rights brings together, for the first time, the perspective of indigenous peoples from across the Commonwealth, and particularly indigenous women, on matters of public policy that particularly concern them. The Commonwealth, with one-third of the world’s population, is home to some fifty per cent of the world’s indigenous peoples. The book includes case studies from all regions of the globe.
It presents the lived experiences of indigenous women in their own words, combined with policy analysis, information briefs on each Commonwealth country with an indigenous population, and a policy brief for government officials. This book will help will help indigenous peoples to share their different experiences and identify common themes, and will assist governments in creating an enabling environment for indigenous peoples to participate to the full.
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| Navigating New Waters
A Reader on ACP-EU Trade Relations
ISBN: 9780850928419
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:804
An essential reader and reference tool for trade experts and interested parties, bringing together key analysis on all aspects of trade negotiations between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states and the European Union. The editors, both highly experienced in trade negotiations, have selected the most useful articles on all key aspects of trade negotiations, including market access, services, fisheries, regional integration, compatibility with the multilateral framework, the development dimension and capacity building in trade negotiations.
The introduction highlights the major concerns of the book, focusing on ensuring that the priorities of developing countries are addressed. This publication is comprised of two volumes.
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