Par: Dr. Éviter
This is the first in a series of three African Women’s Development Fund (Rapport Annuel ) abécédaires intitulés Perspectives féministes sur la gouvernance, Paix et sécurité. Les amorces sont destinées à:
1. Proposer un retour sur les grands débats sur les femmes, gouvernance, paix et sécurité en Afrique.
2. Examiner et analyser les interventions des mouvements de femmes dans la gouvernance, la paix et la sécurité.
3. Offer a set of policy and advocacy priorities based on political and practical realities.
4. Benefit women’s rights activists, organisations and people in government at the front line of local and national mobilisation initiatives seeking to enhance women’s leadership.
5. Assist in building alliances and structuring support across various institutions working towards enhancing women’s political participation.
This particular primer maps key areas of feminist analysis and intervention in governance. Based on existing research on the major factors that hinder women’s political participation, emphasis is placed on electoral systems, political parties, quotas and national constitutional mechanisms. These are also areas where the impact of the women’s rights movement has been felt. This primer therefore assesses the ways in which women’s participation in governance has been assured, the challenges arising from these approaches, and lessons therein. This primer is intended to benefit women’s rights activists and organisations at the frontline of local and national mobilisation initiatives that seek to enhance women’s leadership. We hope the primer is useful for building alliances and structuring support across various institutions working towards enhancing women’s political participation.