Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Published by the The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), this publication includes four case studies from India, Namibia, Pakistan, and South Africa. They describe civil society initiatives that have intervened in governance and brought about changes in institutional practice, aiming to secure strategic gender interests. These national case studies are complemented by a global perspective on governance and gender in the form of the ‘state of the art' Introduction, an annotated bibliography of the international literature on this subject, and a review of relevant Web resources.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Gender, citizenship and governance
  Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay
• Decentralization process and women: the case of Kerala, India
  - Aleyamma Vijayan
• Engendering institutions in Pakistan
  - Naeem Mirza
• Customary law reform in the new South Africa
  - Catherine Albertyn and Likhapha Mbatha
• A case study on the 50/50 campaign in Namibia, focusing on women's grass-roots participation
  - Liz Frank and Elizabeth Khaxas
• Annotated bibliography
• Web resources
• About the authors