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Women and democracy in Central America : how the local government regional outreach strategy (LOGROS) project can help to promote full and equal political participation for women
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Women and democracy in Central America : how the local government regional outreach strategy (LOGROS) project can help to promote full and equal political participation for women
Although the transition to democracy underway in Central America offers women a historic opportunity to increase their political participation, women continue to face political barriers arising from deeply ingrained cultural ideas, discriminatory laws and regulations, double demands on their time as income earners and mothers, lack of education, and poverty.
Van Pelt, Sharon · 1992
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Abstract
A.I.D."s planned Local Government Regional Outreach Strategy (LOGROS) project can assist here by educating local and national officials as well as citizens on the need to include women in the democratic process and by providing training and TA to women"s organizations involved in the democracy movement. The project should call upon women"s organizations for help in identifying the most suitable and effective ways to incorporate women and gender-related issues into LOGROS activities, and in advising mayors and municipal officials of the same. The easiest and perhaps most appropriate way of accomplishing this is by including women leaders, i.e., mayors, public officials, etc., and women"s organizations in the Regional Municipal Network to be established during the project"s first year. This initial effort is crucial to ensuring the incorporation of women into other LOGROS activities and, indeed, to successfully educating the members of the region"s municipal systems of the importance of considering women and gender-related issues at the local and the national levels. (Author abstract, modified)
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