The ‘ACTION BRIEF’ series is for policy-makers and civil society organisations. It draws on the experiences and analyses of our partners, One World Action, academic research and current debates.
The ‘ACTION BRIEF’ series proposes a clear set of action points that can contribute to development policy-making, planning and financing.
Our latest Action Brief discusses the widespread problem of gender-based political violence in Bolivia, where elected and aspiring women politicians experience routine harassment, intimidation and assaults as they try to participate in local politics. Despite progressive laws and quota systems in place, Bolivian women continue to be underrepresented in all levels of political life. How do women's organisations and civil society approach the problem?
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In this Action Brief, women's rights advocates, politicians and academics reflect on British and Latin American experiences of women in politics and strategies for increasing women's political representation.
Based on a roundtable discussion organised by One World Action and the Institute for the Study of the Americas in November 2009, participants have distilled approaches and recommendations to further gender equality in formal and informal political spaces.
Featuring testimonies from British party activists and local politicians from Bolivia, and the latest research on patterns of political participation among women in Latin America.
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The political context is volatile in Malawi with the debate raging on about the impeachment of the President. Local government elections are long overdue and the national political scenario only further complicates the situation.
In the meantime, existing local government structures need to be strengthened to implement and monitor the HIV/AIDS National ActionFramework, with the AIDS pandemic continuing to wreak havoc in Malawi. Due to various factors arising from donors and government decisions, the local government AIDS machinery which was developed over time, has been weakened and is in danger of completely unravelling.
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One World Action supports a network of community based women’s organistions in Dhaka called Partnership of Women in Action (PaWA).
90% of the Bangladesh workforce are in the unregulated informal sector. There is a lack of reliable data, but current estimates put the number of women working in this sector at around 10 million. These women work in unregulated jobs such as farming, vending, shrimp cultivation, rag picking, brick breaking, sex work, tailoring or domestic services. The majority of these women are poor, excluded and vulnerable.
Poverty alleviation schemes, including livelihood projects and micro-credit, have to be supported by raising levels of social consciousness to be sustainable. PaWA therefore links personal empowerment to campaign and lobbying. This Action Brief shares both the strategies PaWA have developed to improve the lives of women workers, and their policy recommendations that will ensure women workers become visible, valued and protected in future.
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