Gender and ICT Policy

2011 ◽  
pp. 164-181
Author(s):  
Tracy Efe Rhima
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Latin America And Caribbean ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Ict Policy

This chapter is devoted to discussion of ICT and gender policy. It explores the need for gender consideration in ICT policy, gender issues in ICT policy, adoption of gender perspective in ICT policies, challenges for the adoption of a gender perspective in the formulation and implementation of ICT policies, case studies of gender and ICT policies in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and Caribbean and Australia, gender approaches to ICT policies and programs, guidelines for policy-making and regulatory agencies. It was concluded that various national government have started addressing gender issues in their policies. Recommendation was given that policy makers should ensure that Gender considerations are truly included in national ICT policy.

GENDER ISSUES AND THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION: A RAY OF LIGHT, OR TWILIGHT ON THE HORIZON?

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-132
Author(s):  
Iyabode Ogunniran
Keyword(s):  
Gender Issues ◽  
Gender Quotas ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Positive Rights ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Gender

The consensus in modern democracies is that constitutions should be based on inclusivity. However, the Nigerian constitution is replete with provisions which are interpreted to either deny the realities of women or outright discriminate against them. This article examines the intersections of gender, law and the Nigerian constitution. It argues that women have played a minimal role in the history of constitution making. The inclusion and interpretation of equality; non-discrimination; negative vs. positive rights and gender quotas are biased. The article posits that a conscious effort to give women presence in the polity started in the Nigerian Fourth Republic. The National Gender Policy mainstreamed gender to increase the participation of women in politics and hoisted favourable economic strategies. In addition, in 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated a national conference, where far-reaching resolutions were made on gender issues. Consequently, some of the socio-economic rights have been made justiciable and imputed in the latest Constitutional Amendments Bill. An impasse between the president and the National Assembly led to his refusal to assent. The tenure of the government has ended and the resolutions of the conference may not be revisited for some time to come. In contrast to the earlier position, the Nigerian Supreme Court, in two notable decisions, strongly condemned discriminatory inheritance customary practices. The author’s finding is that constitutional amendments and a continuous active stance by the courts, amongst others, offer leeways for women’s development.

Gender, Security, and Peacebuilding

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-216
Author(s):  
Sarah Smith
Keyword(s):  
Gender Issues ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Conflict Studies ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Peace And Conflict Studies ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Feminist Work

This chapter examines how gender is relevant to, shapes, and is shaped by security and peacebuilding. It considers gender issues in security and peacebuilding, examines gender policy in peacebuilding, and provides a reflection on the future of the field based on the significant contributions of feminist work to security and peace theorizing. It highlights two significant contributions of feminist and gender theory in security and peacebuilding: making visible previously marginalized experiences and knowledge and exposing the gendered logics that inform this exclusion and are fundamentally entwined with and productive of the priorities and practices of security and peacebuilding. This means that rectifying gender-discriminatory understandings of peace and security requires a reconceptualization of what constitutes security and peace, and the institutions and processes that pursue these goals. These imperatives are directed at both peace and security governance as well as peace and conflict studies as a field of academic study.

scholarly journals Adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights: generating evidence and strengthening country capacity

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Ferne
Keyword(s):  
Project Managers ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Measurement Monitoring ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Policies And Programs

Abstract Knowledge generation and use of evidence on Adolescent SRHR and related gender issues, (such as gender inequalities and female empowerment) is weak and is not being harnessed effectively. Country institutional capacity is often inadequate for effective analysis and communication of ASRHR data, and data on the youngest adolescent age-cohorts are lacking. Available ASRHR and related gender data through surveys are poorly harnessed by policy makers, program staff and project managers. As such, available ASRHR data are often ignored due to low confidence in research quality across data collection methods. This innovation has developed and tested improved methods of measurement, monitoring, and knowledge translation in ASRHR and gender across multiple sub-Saharan countries. It has further created and piloted methods and tools to better analyze, communicate, and translate into action ASRHR-relevant data, with a focus on better integration of national survey data (including subnational analyses, district data) to support and inform: (i) government policies and programs and local projects led by Canadian and other NGOs; and (ii) contextualized local programmatic monitoring, learning and evaluation.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Success of Gender Mainstreaming in New Zealand Official Development Assistance Since 2000

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Philippa Bennett
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Official Development Assistance ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
And Gender

<p>Gender mainstreaming is one of the most widespread methods employed by donor countries and their partners to address gender equality and women’s empowerment in development. New Zealand has had a varied history of engagement on gender issues within its aid programme. As reportedly one of the first countries within the OECD to have a specific gender policy, New Zealand’s commitment to women has waxed and waned. Case and point, in 2011, when asked where women came into New Zealand’s growing Pacific focus for aid, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade stated that he was not interested in prescribing a gender within the aid programme. This research evaluated how gender mainstreaming has been implemented into the policies of New Zealand’s Official Development Assistance (NZODA) since 2000.   Research methods used included reviewing past and present NZODA policies, carried out alongside interviews with development specialists who had worked in the New Zealand aid and gender environment. Using a feminist lens, the research revealed that New Zealand’s ODA has had limited investment in gender equality and women’s empowerment, despite gender being mainstreamed or mandated as a cross-cutting issue since 2002. The previous structure which administered NZODA, NZAID, released an in-depth gender policy late in its existence and struggled to retain staff in the gender advisor role. The refocus of NZODA, with the subsequent reintegration of aid into foreign affairs in 2009 meant the expiration of this policy. Two years later, the new body established to administer NZODA, the NZ Aid Programme, released its only policy, where gender equality and women’s empowerment featured little and appeared tokenistic. As well as this lack of investment in women, this research revealed that gender mainstreaming appears to be misunderstood, which can only contribute to its widely perceived ineffectiveness. Recommendations argue for a committed focus on gender best practice within NZODA, alongside greater investment in programmes and activities that specifically focus on women and gender issues.</p>

scholarly journals Evaluating the Success of Gender Mainstreaming in New Zealand Official Development Assistance Since 2000

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Philippa Bennett
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Official Development Assistance ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
And Gender

<p>Gender mainstreaming is one of the most widespread methods employed by donor countries and their partners to address gender equality and women’s empowerment in development. New Zealand has had a varied history of engagement on gender issues within its aid programme. As reportedly one of the first countries within the OECD to have a specific gender policy, New Zealand’s commitment to women has waxed and waned. Case and point, in 2011, when asked where women came into New Zealand’s growing Pacific focus for aid, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade stated that he was not interested in prescribing a gender within the aid programme. This research evaluated how gender mainstreaming has been implemented into the policies of New Zealand’s Official Development Assistance (NZODA) since 2000.   Research methods used included reviewing past and present NZODA policies, carried out alongside interviews with development specialists who had worked in the New Zealand aid and gender environment. Using a feminist lens, the research revealed that New Zealand’s ODA has had limited investment in gender equality and women’s empowerment, despite gender being mainstreamed or mandated as a cross-cutting issue since 2002. The previous structure which administered NZODA, NZAID, released an in-depth gender policy late in its existence and struggled to retain staff in the gender advisor role. The refocus of NZODA, with the subsequent reintegration of aid into foreign affairs in 2009 meant the expiration of this policy. Two years later, the new body established to administer NZODA, the NZ Aid Programme, released its only policy, where gender equality and women’s empowerment featured little and appeared tokenistic. As well as this lack of investment in women, this research revealed that gender mainstreaming appears to be misunderstood, which can only contribute to its widely perceived ineffectiveness. Recommendations argue for a committed focus on gender best practice within NZODA, alongside greater investment in programmes and activities that specifically focus on women and gender issues.</p>

Gender expertise and policy analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-216
Author(s):  
Pauline Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Policy Success ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Budgeting ◽  
Women's Policy Agencies

Chapter Fourteen explores gender expertise and policy analysis. To gender policy analysis requires the expertise to apply gender as a variable in the processes that generate policy analysis. A variety of individuals and institutions in society, from academic to women’s policy agencies, provide gender expertise through activities including gender audits, gender budgeting, research and analysis, gender consultation, gender training, and gender assessments. Considering gender expertise permits us to make visible the types of knowledge that qualify as expertise, the conditions under which such knowledge has resonance with policy makers and can claim policy success. Understanding the barriers preventing the successful application of gender equality policies gives insights into how and why gender inequality persists.

scholarly journals Editorial: Gender Perspective in Social Research: Chosen Problems, Aspects, and Contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Emilia Garncarek
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Gender

This volume Society and Gender: Contemporary Issues and Research Perspectives, is a reflection of dynamically developing gender studies in the Polish social sciences. The first part of the introduction shows that gender/gender perspective has become one of the basic and essential cognitive category to understand the social world at its various levels, has also universal and widespread structural and strat­ification meaning. The second part of the introduction presents six articles that show all the richness and complexity of gender perspective in social research. The contributions are devoted to the issues con­nected with the media images of masculinity; the critical reflection on contemporary Polish television series, in particular the ways they tackle narratives that include instances of violence against women; the under-representation of media coverages of women’s sports; experiences of infertility and the social expectations towards women until they receive a diagnosis of infertility; medical views on transgender and their influence on self-perception among trans people; and the process of gendering memory as a counterpoint to the politicization of memory. The diversity of contents presented within individual texts illustrates how multi-faceted the considerations of gender issues are.

scholarly journals The Inclusion Conundrum: A Critical Account of Youth and Gender Issues Within and Beyond Sport for Development and Peace Interventions

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Collison ◽  
Simon Darnell ◽  
Richard Giulianotti ◽  
P. David Howe
Keyword(s):  
Gender Issues ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Athletic Ability ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
Critical Account ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Development Objectives

The sport for development and peace (SDP) sector is made up of various development-focused policies and programs that seek to engage, stabilise, empower and create social and economic change. SDP projects, most often run by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), have been implemented in regions enduring physical conflicts, health pandemics, major gender divisions and other social crises that have a great impact on youth. In this context, sport has been accorded the difficult task of facilitating greater access for marginal, vulnerable or community groups whilst positively contributing to the attainment of diverse development objectives. While the ‘where’ and ‘why’ of SDP has been largely accounted for, the attention in this article is on the ‘who’ of SDP in relation to the notion of inclusion. Drawing on extensive research conducted in Jamaica, Kosovo, Rwanda and Sri Lanka, the idea of SDP as an inclusionary practice is critically investigated. While SDP may ‘give voice’ to participants, especially to individuals with athletic ability or sporting interests, the extent to which this creates social contexts that are fundamentally inclusive remains open to discussion. In this sense, while targeting populations, groups or individuals remains an attractive strategy to achieve specific goals, for example youth empowerment or gender equality, empirical assessments complicate the presumption that SDP programming leads to inclusion, particularly at a larger societal level. The article considers a matrix of inclusion criteria, potential outcomes, and the tensions arising between targeted SDP programming and the often-exclusionary dimensions of sport more broadly, with a focus on youth and gender issues.

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