Building Partnerships For Beijing Implementation And Womens Empowerment

Extrait du résumé : "The Asia-Pacific region represents many differents women's and people's organisations and networks that are responding to increasing gender and social inequities that are the results of development policies focused on economic growth which does not necessarily bring about social distribution and equitable, ecological sustainable development. There is continuing concern about the impacts of globalisation and the effects, indirectly, of the economic crisis on women in the egion. Women have long been critical of economic growth as the development model in the region which increases social inequities and widdens the gap between the rich and poor, between and within countries, and exacerbates gender inequality. This paper attempts to review the record of partnerships for implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and commitments by governments for women's empowerment, over the last five years. It outlines some of the main contributions that partnerships can make to the implementation of the development equity strategies, including strategies for action outlined in the Beijing Platform for Action. It distinguishes between partnerships, collaboration and collective action strategies that women use everyday as part of women's responses to their economic, social and political circumstances in the region. It also discusses common problems that emerge in Beijing-related NGO-GO partnerships and the problems of the partnership based on women's concept of empowerment."