Saskia Brechenmacher (Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Govern, Katherine Mann (PhD candidate and PhD cand Cambridge Trust Scholar

Broschiertes Buch

Aiding Empowerment

Democracy Promotion and Gender Equality in Politics

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Saskia Brechenmacher is a Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a PhD candidate and Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on gender, civil society, and democratic governance, with a particular focus on women's political participation in new democracies. She has advised major governmental and private funders on strategies to promote women's political empowerment and support civil society activism and currently serves on the board of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law. She is a 2017 Atlantic-Brücke Young Leader and previously worked for the World Peace Foundation, Carnegie Europe, and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in London. Her writing has been published in Foreign Policy, Just Security, World Politics Review, The National Interest, The Hill, Open Democracy, and other outlets. Katherine Mann is a PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines the role of gender in conflict, armed group behavior, and conflict-related sexual and reproductive violence. Previously, she was a Research Analyst in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also held positions as a Junior Fellow at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, a Managing Editor at the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and a Visiting Researcher at the Universidad de los Andes. Alongside her research, she has worked with non-governmental organizations to prevent political violence and support civic activism. She received her MPhil from the University of Oxford and her B.A. from the University of Georgia. Her writing has been published in Foreign Policy, Just Security, and other outlets.

Produktdetails

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780197694282
• ISBN-10: 0197694284
• Artikelnr.: 69190776