Sunday, March 13, 2011

The World Bank gender team responds; lessons from successful women’s rights coalitions; male attitudes to violence against women: some reading for International Women’s Day


Some International Women’s Day reading at the wonky end of the spectrum.

Firstly, an excellent response from its co-directors (Ana Ravenga and Sudhir Shetty) to my earlier post on this year’s World Development Report on Gender Equality, whose website goes live today. Secondly check out a couple of papers on the Developmental Leadership Program website. The DLP describes itself as providing ‘thinking and policy about the critical role played by leaders, elites and coalitions in the politics of development’. All of the papers follow a similar format, identifying ‘critical overarching themes’, factors that facilitate the formation of successful coalitions, the strategies the coalitions used for greater influence and some do’s and don’t’s for donors. Nice.

See full Press Release.