Aiding Empowerment
Democracy Promotion and Gender Equality in Politics
Series: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 March 2024
- ISBN 9780197694275
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 156x235x21 mm
- Weight 562 g
- Language English 473
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Short description:
Today, gender equality is widely seen as a critical dimension of democracy. Over the past three decades, the United States and other donor governments have spent millions on aid programs that seek to advance women's equal political participation and leadership around the world. What do these assistance programs consist of, and how effective have they been? In Aiding Empowerment, Saskia Brechenmacher and Katherine Mann take a critical look at this growing field of international aid and policy action. Drawing on research in Kenya, Nepal, Morocco, and Myanmar, they examine the varied methods aid providers use to challenge patriarchal political structures and support local reformers, identify persisting challenges and promising innovations, and make practical recommendations for reform.
MoreLong description:
In recent decades, women's political empowerment has become an important foreign policy and assistance objective. Every year, donor governments and multilateral organizations partner with hundreds of civil society groups around the world to train women to run for office, support women legislators, campaign for gender quotas, and bolster women's networks in political parties and parliaments.
What ideas about gender, power, and political change guide these aid programs? What have practitioners and advocates learned about their strengths and weaknesses, and how might they improve their work going forward?
Drawing on extensive interviews with aid officials, women's rights advocates, and women politicians in Western donor countries and across Kenya, Morocco, Myanmar, and Nepal, Aiding Empowerment investigates how democracy aid actors promote gender equality in politics. Saskia Brechenmacher and Katherine Mann argue that international assistance for women's political empowerment has evolved significantly over the last three decades, from a first generation of aid programs aimed at integrating women into nascent democratic institutions to a second generation focused on transforming the broader political ecosystem hindering women's equal political influence. However, this evolution is still unfolding, and changes in thinking have outstripped changes in aid practice. Several challenges threaten future progress, from the persistence of patriarchal norms to rising concerns about democratic erosion and backlash. In the face of these hurdles, the book presents practical recommendations for policymakers, practitioners, and advocates fighting for women's political empowerment globally.
Aiding empowerment is a valuable resource for social work educators and practitioners, offering insights into the interplay between gender and political empowerment. While it effectively outlines the challenges and opportunities in this field, it also leaves room for further exploration of strategies to combat patriarchal resistance and promote genuine equality in political spaces. The book serves as a critical reminder that achieving gender equality in politics is not merely aboutincreasing numbers but transforming the very structures that perpetuate inequality.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Part I - Situating the Inquiry
1. Introduction
2. The Global Aid Ecosystem
3. Introducing the Cases
Part II - The State of the Field
4. First Generation: Getting Women in the Room
5. Second Generation: Transforming Systems
6. The Limits of Candidate Training
7. Confronting the Gatekeepers
8. From Presence to Power
Part III - New Frontiers
9. Tackling Patriarchal Gender Norms
10. Widening the Lens
11. Toward a Different Assistance Model
12. Building Gender-inclusive Democracies
Notes
Index
