Leadership for women's health in Africa: the parliamentarians for women's health project

Author(s)
Trasi, Reshma
Orza, Luisa
Editor(s)
Sweetman, Caroline
Publication date
2008-11-01
Subject
Gender
Governance and citizenship
Health
Keywords
Participation
Gender and Development Journal
GaD
Country
South Africa
Kenya

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Routledge
Journal
Gender & Development
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/131676
DOI
10.1080/13552070802465334
Document type
Journal article
Language
English
Description
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.
Pages
13
ISSN
1355-2074
EISSN
1364-9221
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