South Africa

This consolidated response highlights recommendations on how to empower independent women candidates to succeed in elections.

This article describes the participation and representation of women in local government elections in South Africa.

This article describes the participation of women in the 1994 election in South Africa, and the particular difficulties women candidates faced during this election.

This article critically reviews three key research challenges that emerged as a result of developing gender-sensitive indicators for an NGO in South Africa.

This report   includes salient point s  and recommendations from the BRIDGE 1996 report on National Machineries for Women (NWMs), updated with more recent thinking, policy and practice. Also included  are summaries of some best practice examples.

This consolidated response illustrates the key steps to establishing a women’s party section as recommended by iKNOW Politics Experts as well as by scholars and practitioners in this field.

This resource provides relevant knowledge to facilitate mainstreaming gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health programmes, and the inclusion of specific aspects of gender inequality and disadvantage into national policy frameworks.

This report reviews the progress made in South Africa since tthe launch of the Women's Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO) campaign, "50/50 by 2005: Get the Balance Right!" It discusses the increase in women's political representation after the 2004 elections and identifies the factor