designed and executed globally to elicit enhanced participation of women. This paper contends that in the context of local … local community context and the development strategy lead to problems with effective women’s participation. On the basis of … the findings, it argues that the institutional paradigm for achieving equitable gender participation in local water …

Commonwealth of Independent States, and Uzbekistan, too, has experienced both positive and negative developments in gender equality …. The status of women and men in Uzbekistan is very much shaped by the fact that the country has undergone significant and … a market-based system. Several characteristics of the transformation have direct bearing on gender equality and are …

Efforts by international development agencies to design gender-sensitive projects have sharpened their focus on women …’s participation in community-level water governance. In some cases, such goals have enhanced women’s self-confidence and developed … better understanding of the gap between women’s motivation to participate and their ability or agency to do so. It highlights …

processes of gender planning, budgeting and auditing in the general projects and in the Women's Component Plan. …This manual is intended to help local governments to uphold the human rights of women, by involving them in identifying … their needs and with their participation, to find possible solutions and move towards action. This manual details the …

,117 households and 73 agricultural cooperatives. Using descriptive statistics and econometric analysis under a critical gender lens …, the paper identifies which cooperative, household, and individual level characteristics influence women’s participation … in agricultural cooperatives. The findings suggest that a major barrier to women’s access are gender biases within …

This paper is a study on Access, Participation, and Performance of Girls in Science and Technology in Nepal. This study … was undertaken essentially to achieve four objectives, viz. to review curricular and research materials from gender lens …, identify stakeholders’ perspective towards girls’ access to and participation in Science and Technology Education (STE …

This is the 5th chapter from the report 'Women and Men in India 2014' by CSO. This is shows the participation of women …

child can affect the woman’s decision to work. The results indicate that the hazard of leaving employment is high for women …. Even after exhausting maternity leave (12 weeks), women still face a high risk of leaving employment. When the child is … three month old women still face a 40-50% higher risk of leaving employment, but the risk tends to disappear after the child …