- Title
- Gender mainstreaming in local governance: a case of O.R. Tambo District Municipality
- Creator
- Mongoato, Boiketlo
- Subject
- Women in development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Women -- Political activity -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Local government -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MPA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/32334
- Identifier
- vital:32024
- Description
- The purpose of this study is to establish the extent to which the OR Tambo District Municipality is able to implement gender mainstreaming to eliminate gender bias in governance and service delivery in order to improve the lives of the women in the district and to develop the community. This study is specifically concerned with the effect of leadership and staff capacity on the implementation of gender mainstreaming. The study was aimed at improving how the local government approaches gender mainstreaming and shed light on how it can be used as an all-inclusive developmental strategy. The data for this study were collected through document analysis and purposively selected in-depth interviews. The subjects of the study were selected from strategic units within the municipality which were identified to be the key stakeholders in gender mainstreaming in terms of the institutional arrangements. The results illustrate that despite a commitment to gender mainstreaming in the OR Tambo District Municipality, the institution still faces many challenges in its implementation. These challenges are linked to the absence of an institutional gender mainstreaming policy, poor understanding of gender mainstreaming and sectoral institutional arrangements that hinder the process of implementation. The data confirmed that a lack of skilled human resources hinders the implementation of gender mainstreaming.
- Format
- xii, 133 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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