Advocacy and Lobbying

This guide focuses on how to collaborate around women's empowerment and gender equality issues at the country level and to mainstream gender equality concerns into gender related international programs and plans of action.

This poster was a part of media campaign held by women in the 2003 elections in Jordan. It says "When Women Win, the Country Wins".

This report examines the role of women in development processes and stereotypes existing in society against women in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The DAC Working Party on Gender Equality has drawn together a set of practical guidelines for advancing the goals identified by the OECD Development Assistance Committee and by the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) with respect to gender equality and the empowerment of women.

This article describes benefits and challenges of feminist advocacy. It offers tips for successful advocacy and describes strategies to be incorporated into current and future work.

This article reflects on the vocabulary commonly used within development organisations to communicate about 'gender and development'. It argues that the relevant terminology, though frequently used, remains problematic.

This article examines the relationships between various actors in Uganda who have an interest in advocacy on gender issues.

At the close of the millennium, there is a wave of invigorating air sweeping across the African continent. The refreshing breeze can be felt in the form of women smashing the gendered 'glass ceiling' in a bid to overcome the cultural and structural barriers that impede their political careers.

This article describes how caste identity determines the place that women activists are given by villagers in their fieldwork and within women's organisations.