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Challenges and opportunities: an evaluation of the implementation of gender mainstreaming in South African government departments, with specific reference to the department of justice and constitutional development (DoJ&CD) and the department of foreign affairs (DFA)Sedibelwana, Maria Valerie January 2008 (has links)
The aim of this research project is to conduct an evaluation on the implementation of gender mainstreaming in South African government departments, with specific reference to the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The research project is based on the hypothesis that despite the existence of a National Gender Machinery, Gender Focal Points (GFPs) face numerous challenges in implementing gender mainstreaming, due to various internal and external factors. Based on the two case studies, the research project concludes that despite a strong commitment from government, GFPs still face challenges in effectively implementing gender mainstreaming. This is due to a lack of accountability, an understanding of the concept of gender mainstreaming, as well as a lack of resources. Furthermore, systemic weaknesses within the National Gender Machinery are exacerbating the challenges faced GFP
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Assessing the impact of integrated development planning (IDP) on gender equality and women's empowerment in South Africa: a case study of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro MunicipalityMpofu, Sibongile January 2011 (has links)
The South African local government is expected to conform to all national policy directives including the principle of gender equality. Local government provides an immense opportunity for redressing imbalances and empowerment of women as they are the most negatively affected by poverty as a result of inequality. The South African Government has developed a wide range of legislation that ensures that women are empowered and participate in their own development. With all the legislation in place, women‟s empowerment as envisaged in the South African Constitution has, however, not yet been yielded the desired results as evidenced by the fact that women continue to remain disadvantaged in relation to men. This study therefore seeks to investigate whether and how the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (NMBMM) has mainstreamed gender in support to the principles of gender equality and women‟s empowerment in the implementation of Integrated Development Planning (IDP) with particular reference to wards 15 and 17. The researcher used a mixed methods research approach, this means that the study followed both the qualitative and quantitative approaches for in-depth understanding followed in the design and implementation of the IDP process. Data was collected from women participants by conducting surveys, making use of questionnaires. Structured interviews were conducted with municipality officials in order to give more insight more insight into how the IDP process is initiated in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Municipality. The findings of the study revealed that there is a lack of a strategic understanding of gender mainstreaming particularly by the leadership of the municipality. This as a result, has made operationalisation and engendering the IDP difficult. Due to this strategic vacuum, gender is generally not taken seriously when compared to other developmental challenges such as infrastructure provision. Moreover, the municipality does not have a coordination mechanism nor does it have a proper consultation mechanism to ensure that the nature of development projects is appropriate, effective and actually targets women‟s developmental needs. The leadership of the municipality must commit to the process of gender mainstreaming if the IDP is to be an effective tool in addressing the gender imbalances.
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Mainstreaming women in development? : a gender analysis of the United Nations Development Programme in South Africa.Rippenaar-Joseph, Trunette 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (DPhil (Political Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Gender Mainstreaming (GM) was popularised as an approach to advance gender equality
at the United Nations (UN) World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Since then
it has been adopted by the UN and international development organisations as the
approach to integrate women and gender issues into development. The United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), a major international development organisation,
claims a strong policy commitment to GM. As such, it is an important organisation to
study for its GM implementation to establish what lessons can be learnt from its practice.
Because it is an international organisation, the study has implications for global GM as
well as for SA.
This thesis examines mainstreaming women and gender in development in the UNDP
Country Office in South Africa (UNDP/SA). It explores the gap between Gender
Mainstreaming policy and practice, through discursive analysis of UNDP policy
documents and reports, as well as an analysis of qualitative interview data and
participatory approaches. The study focuses on the organisational challenges facing
institutions trying to mainstream gender, particularly in the South African context. It puts
forward a proposal for improving GM by combining organisational development and
feminist theory. Through the proposal, which focuses on a broad transformation process
within which to frame GM implementation, the thesis aims to contribute towards
advancing gender equality through GM in South Africa and elsewhere.
Development was initially gender-blind until the early 1970s. Since then, development
organisations have moved women and gender onto the development agenda through
various approaches. The major approaches have been Women in Development (WID),
Gender and Development (GAD) and Empowerment. The current approach, Gender
Mainstreaming (GM), is about moving women and gender issues from the margin to the
centre of development organisations and their practice. While being an improvement on
the earlier approaches, GM still faces a number of challenges for successful
implementation in development organisations such as the UNDP.
This qualitative study interrogates the GM policy discourse of the UNDP/SA, and finds a
serious gap between its policy discourse and practice. This gap is evident not only in the
UNDP/SA, but also in one of its funded projects, the Capacity Building Project for the
Office on the Status of Women. GM fails to make an impact because of factors such as
lack of training, absence of political will from senior managers in development
organisations (and in government), and lack of resources. It is also clear that GM cannot
occur in the absence of a broad organisational transformation process. To address the
challenges facing GM, I propose a model for implementation with a special focus on the
deep structure of organisations that exposes the masculinist roots of gender inequality.
What is essential for this model to succeed is that GM implementation should be framed
within a broader organisational transformation process, based on organisational
development and feminist theory. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geslagshoofstroming het gewildheid verwerf as ‘n benadering om geslagsgelykheid te
bevorder by die Verenigde Nasies (VN) se Wêreld Konferensie oor Vroue in Beijing in
1995. Daarna is dit deur die VN en internasionale ontwikkelingsorganisasies aanvaar as
die benadering om vroue en geslagskwessies te integreer in ontwikkeling. Die Verenigde
Nasies Ontwikkelings Program (VNOP), ‘n vername internasionale ontwikkelingsorganisasie,
maak aanspraak op ‘n sterk toewyding aan Geslagshoofstroming as beleid.
Die VNOP is dus ‘n belangrike organisasie om te bestudeer vir sy Geslagshoofstroming
implementering om vas te stel watter lesse ons kan leer. Die studie het implikasies nie net
vir Suid-Afrika nie, maar ook globaal omdat die VNOP ‘n internasionale organisasie is.
Die tesis ondersoek die hoofstroming van vroue en geslag in ontwikkeling in die VNOP
Kantoor in Suid-Afrika (VNOP/SA). Dit verken die gaping tussen Geslagshoofstroming
beleid en praktyk deur middel van ‘n diskoers analise van VNOP beleids-dokumente en
verslae, en ‘n analise van data verkry deur kwalitatiewe onderhoude. Die studie fokus op
die organisatoriese uitdagings vir die instellings wat Geslagshoofstroming probeer
implementeer, veral in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks. Dit stel ‘n kombinasie van
organisatoriese ontwikkeling en feministiese teorie voor om Geslagshoofstroming te
bevorder. Die tesis streef daarna, deur die voorstel wat fokus op Geslagshoofstroming as
deel van ‘n breë transformasie proses, om by te dra tot die bevordering van
geslagsgelykheid in Suid-Afrika en elders.
Ontwikkeling was aanvanklik geslagsblind tot met die vroeë 1970s. Sedertdien het
ontwikkelingsorganisasies vroue en geslagskwessies op die agenda geplaas deur verskeie
benaderings. Die vernaamste benaderings was Vroue in Ontwikkeling (WID), Geslag en
Ontwikkeling (GAD), en Bemagtiging (Empowerment). Die huidige benadering,
Geslagshoofstroming, het ten doel om vroue en geslagskwessies vanaf die kantlyn te
beweeg tot in die kernpunt van ontwikkelings-organisasies en hulle praktyke. Alhoewel
dit ‘n verbetering op die vorige benaderings is, staar Geslagshoofstroming
implementering nog ‘n aantal uitdagings in die gesig in ontwikkelingsorganisasies soos
die VNOP.
Die kwalitatiewe studie interrogeer die Geslagshoofstromings diskoers van die
VNOP/SA en vind ‘n ernstige gaping tussen sy beleidsdiskoers en praktyk. Hierdie
gaping is sigbaar nie net in die VNOP/SA nie, maar ook in een van sy befondsde
projekte, die Kapasiteitsbou Projek vir die Kantoor vir die Status van Vroue.
Geslagshoofstroming maak nie impak nie as gevolg van faktore soos ‘n gebrek aan
opleiding, die afwesigheid van politieke wilskrag by senior bestuurders in
ontwikkelingsorganisasies (en in die regering), en ‘n gebrek aan hulpbronne. Dit is ook
duidelik dat Geslagshoofstroming nie kan plaasvind in die afwesigheid van ‘n breë
organisatoriese transformasie proses nie. Om die uitdagings vir Geslagshoofstroming aan
te spreek, stel ek ‘n implementeringsmodel voor met ‘n spesiale fokus op die diep
struktuur van organisasies wat die maskulinistiese oorsprong van geslagsongelykheid
blootlê. Noodsaaklik vir die sukses van die model, is die kontekstualisering van
Geslagshoofstroming in breë organisatoriese transformasie, gebaseer op ‘n kombinasie
van feministiese en organisatoriese ontwikkelingsteorie.
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Barriers to leaving an abusive relationship amongst heterosexual women living in the Inanda district in KwaZulu-NatalPadayachee, Dhevamoney 01 1900 (has links)
Text in English, with abstracts and keywords in English, Afrikaans and isiZulu / South Africa has been known to have the highest rate of gender-based violence globally. This qualitative study locates gender-based violence using the interpretive phenomenological paradigm and multicultural feminism as both allowed participants’ to be given a voice. This
study thus enabled women who have been abused to discuss their perception of their own experiences. The primary aim of the study is orientated towards an increased understanding
of the possible barriers that prevent women from leaving their abusers. The main findings point out how victim manipulation, financial abuse, isolation and responses by social and
legal services serve as barriers to the women leaving their abusive partners. The secondary aim contributes to an understanding of the risk factors influencing gender-based violence.
Furthermore, the study explores the impact of prolonged abuse on the participants.
The criteria used for the selection were women with diverse backgrounds from the Inanda district, who have lived in abusive relationships for two years or longer. Eight participants
completed the research process and were selected using the purposive sampling method.
Significantly, this study provides an insight into the reality of how women process and give meanings to their experiences of abuse. Hence, the research sought to inform the literature and the greater community on the lived experiences of women in abusive relationships. / Suid-Afrika het wêreldwyd die hoogste persentasie van geslagsgebaseerde geweld. Hierdie kwalitatiewe studie plaas geslagsgebaseerde geweld met behulp van die interpretatiewe
fenomenologiese paradigma en multikulturele feminisme, aangesien albei die deelnemers 'n stem laat kry. Hierdie studie het dus vroue wat mishandel is, in staat gestel om hul persepsie van hul eie ervarings te bespreek. Die primêre doel van die studie is gerig op 'n groter begrip van die moontlike hindernisse wat vroue verhoed om hul misbruik te verlaat. Die belangrikste bevindings wys daarop hoe manipulasie van slagoffer, finansiële mishandeling, isolasie en
reaksies deur maatskaplike en regsdienste dien as hindernisse vir die verlaat van hul vrouens met hul maat. Die sekondêre doel dra by tot die begrip van die risikofaktore wat geslagsgebaseerde geweld beïnvloed. Verder ondersoek die studie die impak van langdurige
mishandeling op die deelnemers.
Die kriteria wat gebruik is vir die keuring was vroue met verskillende agtergronde uit die distrik Inanda, wat al twee jaar of langer in beledigende verhoudings leef. Agt deelnemers het die navorsingsproses voltooi en is met behulp van die doelgerigte steekproefmetode gekies.
Hierdie studie bied 'n insig in die werklikheid van hoe vroue hul ervarings van mishandeling verwerk en betekenisse gee. Daarom het die navorsing probeer om die literatuur en die groter gemeenskap in te lig oor die ervarings van vroue in beledigende verhoudings. / Iningizimu Afrika yaziwa ukuthi inesilinganiso esiphakeme kunazo zonke sodlame olususelwa ebulilini emhlabeni jikelele. Lolu cwaningo lwekhwalithi lubheka udlame olususelwa ebulilini kusetshenziswa ukuhumusha okuyi-phenographical paradigm kanye
nobungqingili bezamasiko njengoba bobabili abahlanganyeli bavunyelwe ukuba banikezwe izwi. Lolu cwaningo lwenze ukuthi abesifazane abahlukunyeziwe bakhulume ngokubona
kwabo ngokwenzeka kwabo. Inhloso yokuqala yocwaningo isekelwe ekuqondeni okwandayo kwemigoqo engahle ivimbele abesifazane ukuba bashiye abahlukumezi babo. Okutholakele
okukhulu kuveza ukuthi ukuxhaphaza izisulu, ukuhlukunyezwa ngokwezimali, ukwahlukaniswa nezimpendulo ngezinsizakalo zezenhlalo nezomthetho kusebenza njengezithiyo kwabesifazane beshiya abalingani babo abahlukumezayo. Inhloso yesibili
inomthelela ekuqondeni kwezimpawu zobungozi ezinomthelela udlame olususelwa ebulilini.
Ngaphezu kwalokho, lolu cwaningo lubheka umthelela wokuhlukunyezwa isikhathi eside kwabahlanganyeli.
Abangu-8 ababambe iqhaza baphothula inqubo yokucwaninga futhi bakhethwa besebenzisa indlela enamasampula enenjongo.
Okusemqoka ukuthi lolu cwaningo luhlinzeka ngokuqonda kweqiniso lokuthi abesifazane basebenza kanjani futhi banikeze izincazelo kulokho kwabo okuhlukumezeka. Ngakho-ke, lolu cwaningo lufune ukwazisa izincwadi kanye nomphakathi omkhulu ngokuhlangenwe
nakho kokuphila kwabesifazane ebudlelwaneni bokuhlukumeza. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)
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