Peter Reason, Hilary Bradbury
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Andréa Cornwall, Vera Schattan P. Coelho
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Andréa Cornwall, Jenny Edwards
* Introduction: Negotiating Empowerment * Andrea Cornwall and Jenny Edwards * 1.Legal Reform, Women's Empowerment and Social Change: The Case of Egypt * Mulki Al-Sharmani * 2.Quotas: A Pathway of Political Empowerment? * Ana Alice Alcantara Costa * 3. Advancing Women's Empowerment or Rolling Back th...
Andréa Cornwall
Across the world, as new democratic experiments meet withand transformolder forms of governance, political space for public engagement in governance appears to be widening. A renewed concern with rights, power and difference in debates about participation in development has focused greater attention...
Melissa Leach, Andréa Cornwall
Centre. 2 It seeks to offer reflections on some of the emphases and silences in contemporary debates about public participation in the delivery of primary health care services.Through case studies from a diversity of global contexts, we reveal and explore a series of themes with high salience for co...
Mohammed Shahjalal, A Ahmed, E Lawson, A Mensah et al.
Bangladesh, a South Asian country, is critical because of its vulnerability to climate-sensitive diseases, reliance on climate-sensitive livelihoods, anticipated crop losses, and high rates of poverty and malnutrition. Women are disproportionately affected by climate change, and it has a disproporti...
Mariz Tadros
* Introduction. Engaging Politically: Rethinking Women's Pathways to Power? * Mariz Tadros * 1. Politics as Service: Pathways of District Assembly Women in Ghana * Takyiwaa Manuh * 2. Exceptional Women: Reserved Councillors in Municipal Corporations in Bangladesh * Sohela Nazneen, Iqbal Ehsan and Ba...
Vera Schattan P. Coelho, Andréa Cornwall
The challenge of building democratic polities where all can realize their rights and claim their citizenship is one of the greatest of our age.Reforms in governance have generated a profusion of new spaces for citizen engagement.In some settings, older institutions with legacies in colonial rule hav...