African Women in Governance: Policies and Stakeholder's Participation
African Women in Governance: Policies and Stakeholder's Participation presents the assumptions, narratives, and institutions that underpin the key concepts and investigate the limits and potential of financial inclusion development strategy for gender equality. Despite the importance of financial inclusion in response to the growth and development of the economy; critics have argued that financial inclusion represents regressive policies that have hindered the government from meeting the targeted ideological goals set for each country. The hindrance might be traced to the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, which crashed the global economy. Many countries, especially developing economies, are yet to fully recover and achieve the set goals on financial inclusion for their economies (Prabhakar, 2019: 40). This is reiterated by Langley (2008) and Leyshon et al. (2008: 6), who argue that most developing economies have abandoned financial inclusion and the government has passed the responsibilities to its people. The themes identified will provide guidance on the compilation of state-specific profiles on different national approaches to financial inclusion gender policies. The main objective of this volume is to understand different processes for financial inclusion to gender issues at a national level. And to help encourage reflection on what lessons could be learnt between states and what factors cause divergence in multilateral settings so that they can be understood and hopefully addressed.
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Chapters
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Editorial Foreword
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Synopsis
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An Overview of African Women in GovernancePolicies and Stakeholders’ Participation
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‘You Belong to the Other Room’Women and Gendering Democratisation in Africa
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Parliamentary Female Representation and Party Candidate Selection Methods in Zambia
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The Nexus between Women’s Gender Quotas and Political RepresentationA Comparative Analysis of South Africa and Rwanda
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Women’s Political Representation and Participation in the Eastern Cape Provincial LegislatureProspects, Consequences, and Implications
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The Gender Equality Bill, Political Chauvinism and the Quality of Women’s Representation in Nigerian Politics
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Achieving SDG5 in the Fourth Industrial Revolution through Women’s Participation in Politics and Economic Governance in Africa
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African Union and the Development of a Continental Gender Quota in Africa
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African Women’s Land Rights Struggle in Traditional Societies
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Enhancing Women’s Participation in Democratic Governance in Sierra Leone
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Women in Leadership and the Promotion of Accountability in Local GovernanceEvaluating the Role of Female Leaders in Ekurhuleni Municipality
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Gender and Age DemographicsThe Qualitative Decline of the ANC
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Gender Dimensions of COVID-19 and Social Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
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ConclusionReflections on African Women in Governance
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