Aiding Empowerment: Democracy Promotion and Gender Equality in Politics (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

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Aiding Empowerment
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PART I SITUATING THE INQUIRY
1. Introduction
	A Growing Aid Priority
	Taking Stock of Progress
	Capturing Learning
	Our Arguments
	Our Approach
	Outline of This Study
2. The Global Aid Ecosystem
	The Rise of a New Global Norm
	A Gradual Aid Evolution
	Mapping the Current Assistance Landscape
	Understanding the Key Actors
	A Fragile Consensus?
	Critical Voices
	Conclusion
3. Introducing the Cases
	Situating Our Cases
	Nepal: The Struggle for Postconflict Inclusion
	Kenya: Confronting “winner-​takes-​all” Politics
	Morocco: The Challenge of Partial Reform
	Myanmar: The Resurgence of Autocracy
	Conclusion
PART II THE STATE OF THE FIELD
4. First Generation: Getting Women in the Room
	Bolstering Women’s Political Participation
	The Global Push for Gender Quotas
	Building Women’s Capacity
	Assistance to Women’s Organizations
	A Story of Formal Gains
	Adding Women and Stirring?
	The Persistence of Siloed Approaches
	Conclusion
5. Second Generation: Transforming Systems
	Transforming the Ecosystem
	The Expanded Toolbox
	Engendering Elections
	Engaging Political Parties
	Bolstering Women’s Influence
	Countering Resistance and Violence
	An Incomplete Evolution
	Conclusion
6. The Limits of Candidate Training
	A Supply-​side Model
	The Challenge of Measuring Success
	The Drawbacks of One-​off Initiatives
	Investing in Long-​term Accompaniment
	Broadening the Scope
	A Limited Approach
	Conclusion
7. Confronting the Gatekeepers
	Gender Biases in Political Parties
	From Training to Organizational Change
	Fostering Cross-​party Linkages
	Incremental Reforms
	Stubborn Stumbling Blocks
	Confronting the Cost of Politics
	The Need for Pragmatism
	Conclusion
8. From Presence to Power
	An Indirect Link
	Learning the Rules of the Game
	Collective Power Through Women’s Caucuses
	Critical Actors: A Missing Piece?
	Building Cooperative Constellations for Change
	Transforming Parliamentary Institutions
	Conclusion
PART III NEW FRONTIERS
9. Tackling Patriarchal Gender Norms
	The Long Shadow of Patriarchal Norms
	Engaging Men as Stakeholders
	Transforming Masculinities
	The Need for Learning
	Fighting Violence and Backlash
	A Multidimensional Problem
	Adapting to New Threats
	Conclusion
10. Widening the Lens
	Reckoning with Hierarchies
	Translating Intersectionality into Practice
	A Depoliticized Agenda?
	Confronting the Global Democratic Recession
	Risks of Autocratic Co-​optation
	Forging More Politically Informed Approaches
	Conclusion
11. Toward a Different Assistance Model
	Chronic Short-​termism
	Enduring Silos
	An Externally Driven Agenda?
	Shifting Resources and Power
	Reforming Aid Bureaucracies
	A Growing Feminist Tide
	Conclusion
12. Building Gender-​Inclusive Democracies
	Recapping our Arguments
	Strengthening the Aid Ecosystem
	Deepening Second-​Generation Approaches
	Tackling New Frontiers
	Concluding Reflections
Notes
Index