Women’s Leadership and Political Agency in Fragile Polities
dc.contributor.author | Nazneen, Sohela | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Egypt | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Mozambique | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Myanmar | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Nigeria | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Pakistan | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-28T09:30:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-06-28T09:30:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-06-28 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Nazneen, S. (2022) Women’s Leadership and Political Agency in Fragile Polities, IDS Working Paper 573, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2022.046 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-80470-005-1 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2040-0209 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17505 | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent evidence from Afghanistan shows that even in the most difficult contexts, women will still protest for their rights. This paper draws on evidence from the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) research programme to show how women express their political agency and activism and seek accountability in repressive contexts. A4EA research looked at cases of women-led protest in Egypt, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Pakistan, and explored women’s political participation in Nigeria and Pakistan. The research shows that despite some success in claim-making on specific issues, ‘sticky norms’ and male gatekeeping prevail and govern women’s access to public space and mediate their voice in these contexts. The paper concludes by calling on donors to go beyond blueprints in programming, and to work in agile and creative ways to support women’s rights organising. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Working Paper;573 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Participation | en |
dc.subject | Politics and Power | en |
dc.subject | Rights | en |
dc.title | Women’s Leadership and Political Agency in Fragile Polities | en |
dc.type | IDS Working Paper | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Power and Popular Politics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/IDS.2022.046 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-06-28 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.19088/IDS.2022.046 | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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