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Presentations

Parallel Sessions I: Women’s Access to Public Services in Decentralized Systems
Parallel Sessions II: Women’s Political Representation and Participation in Decentralized Systems
Plenary Session 1: The Global Decentralization Agenda
Plenary Session 6: Gender and Decentralization in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations

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Parallel Sessions I: Women’s Access to Public Services in Decentralized Systems

Session A

• A Paradox of Women’s Health Rights under Decentralized Indonesia
  Edriana Noerdin
• Negotiating Sexual Citizenship: Lesbians and Reproductive Health Care
  Róisín Ryan-Flood

Session B

• La agenda azul de las mujeres: Género en las políticas de agua en México. Perspectivas y propuestas
  Red de Género y Medio Ambiente
• Women and Decentralized Water Governance
  Annabell Waititu
• Derechos colectivos de agua y relaciones de género en escenarios de diversidad cultural : Procesos de intervención en riego en el contexto de la descentralización estatal
  Marina Arratia Zulema Gutierrez
• Reforming Water, Adding Women? Does Decentralised Water Governance further Gender Justice in India?
  Seema Kulkarni, Sara Ahmed

Session C

• Debating and Social citizenship: decentralization and women's land rights in Uganda
  Josephine Ahikire, Esther Obaikol

• Making Services, Plans, and Budgets Gender Responsive with CBMS: The Philippine Experience
  Celia M. Reyes

Session E

• The Right to a Job, the Right Types of Projects: Employment Guarantee Policies and Gender Equality
  Rania Antonopoulos
• Equidad Genero Politica Social 
 

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Parallel Sessions II: Women’s Political Representation and Participation in Decentralized Systems I

Session A  

• Women’s Political Representation and Participation in Decentralized Systems in Africa: Uganda
• Égalité de genre et limites des politiques de décentralisation au Sénégal : analyse des textes et des pratiques
  Fatou Sarr
• Participation des femmes aux instances de prise de décisions au niveau décentralisé : l’expérience du WILDAF dans sept pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest
  Kafui B. Adjamagbo Johnson

Session B

• Decentralization and Promotion of Women’s Rights in Nepal: Exploring Constraints, Opportunities and Intervention Avenues
  Ram B. Chhetri, Nepal
• Gender, Power Relations and Decentralization in Pakistan: Strengthening Women’s Participation in Political Space through Affirmative Action
  Fareeha Ummar, Virginia Khan, Shakila Bibi
• Making Space: An Enquiry into Women’s Participation in Local Politics in Rajasthan
  Alice Albin Morris, Geeta Sharma, Arun Kumar
• Women as policy makers: do they make any difference?
  Sita Aripurnami
• Deconstructing Rights: Decentralization and the New Domestic Order in Kerala’s Fishworker Communities
  Usha Zacharias, Ranjini Krishnan

Session C

• Mujeres en su Derecho: Descentralización y derechos de las mujeres en Cotacachi, Nabón, Esmeraldas y Cayambe
  Maria Arboleda
• Presencia y Permanencia de las Mujeres en los Gobiernos Subnacionales, el Caso Peruano
  Kristen Sample
• Actoras Sociales en El Salvador y Honduras: de la Exclusión a lo Público
  Morena Herrara, Mirna Benavides, Cristina Damon

Session D

• Women Rights and Effective Decentralization in the MENA: Bridging the Gaps between Local Politics, Institutional Design and Gender Outcomes
  Dr Mostafa Jari
 

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Plenary Session: The Global Decentralization Agenda  

• Situating Decentralization Policies in the Broader Development Debate
  Vicente Fretes Cibils
  
  

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Plenary Session: Gender and Decentralization in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations

• Claiming Women’s Rights and Decentralization in Colombia: Advances and Obstacles in Protracted Conflict and Contested Transitions
  Donny Meertens
• Planning for Gender Equitable Services Delivery in a Decentralized Post Conflict Setting
  Sarah Ssali