Leadership for women's health in Africa: the parliamentarians for women's health project
Trasi, Reshma Orza, Luisa
Trasi, Reshma
Orza, Luisa
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2008-11-01
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This article describes the achievements, challenges, and lessons emerging from the Parliamentarians for Women's Health (PWH) project. This ground-breaking pilot project has been implemented in Southern and East Africa. It attempted to support a different expression, or redefinition, of leadership - at the level of both parliamentarians and community members. It did this through facilitating dialogue and the exchange of information, views and analysis between MPs, civil-society organisations, HIV-positive women's networks, and community members. The article examines changes in attitude among individuals, mutual learning, policy processes and action generated at this 'power interface', and engenders a discourse on supporting leadership at disparate levels, emphasising the values of participation, GIPA and experiential learning.
This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the <a href="http://www.genderanddevelopment.org">Gender and Development</a> website.
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Gender & Development
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Gender, Development, and Leadership
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16
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3
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1355-2074
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1364-9221