FROM BENEFICIARIES TO CITIZENS Grassroots Women’s Groups Drive the Demand for Good Governance
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FROM BENEFICIARIES TO CITIZENSGrassroots Women’s Groups Drive the Demand for Good
Governance Prema Gopalan, Swayam Shikshan Prayog
Maite Rodriguez, Fundacion Guatemala
GROOTS International Driving the Demand for Good Governance Learning Summit
World Bank June 2-3, 2008
Good Governance is the foundation of Pro-Poor Sustainable Development
Organized women’s groups
and networks Citizen’s Platforms and constituencies
Affordable and accountable basic services
Responsive Local and National Government
GROOTS International’s Strategies on Good Governance Focus on:
• Shifting the identity of organized women’s groups from that of beneficiaries to citizens and problem solvers.
• Repositioning grassroots women’s networks as users and collaborators for delivery of basic services infrastructures.
• Addressing governance by keeping empowerment and engagement at the center.
GROOTS International • 25 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America and Eastern and
Central Europe. • Thematic Programs: HIVAIDS, Governance, Resilience, Community
Enterprise• Methodologies for transfer and scaling up effective community practiceSwayam Shikshan Prayog • Partners with over 60,000 self-help groups across 3 states of India
reaching out to 300,000 households• Basic services, micro-finance, scaled up community enterprise linked to
health, renewable energy and food securityFundacion Guatemala • Partnering with Central American grassroots women’s networks for access
to land and property• Working with rural Mayan and Garifuna grassroots women and
organizations to advocate for a gendered public agrarian policy.
From Recovery to Resilient Development World Bank supported Government led Repair and Strengthening Program
Organised women’s groups
Collaborative Mechanisms
Responsive local/national governments
•Women’s groups positioned communication facilitators at community level
•Community Action Plan and regular feedback meetings
•Sustained long term relationships with government officials
•Lessons and strategies transferred to Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and other counties such as Turkey
From Recovery to Resilient Development
• Widespread corruption • House-owners lacked information on entitlements
and safe construction techniques• Too much reliance of engineers • Focus on technical aspects without adequate
attention to operationalizing with houseowners• Community Participation Consultant to overcome
these obstacles.
Grassroots women, land/secure tenure and public policy
- Context: Land & secure tenure is a grassroots women’s issue worldwide—across contexts (Africa, Asia - see our case study)
- Land as essential to grassroots women in Central America Following Peace agreements & creation of new mechanisms for reconstruction
-Restoring women’s production, livelihoods, & homes & communities/social networks
-Organized regional networks of grassroots women & allies for solidarity & solve similar problems (building relations with local-nat’l govt & administrations)
Organizing to : Implement Public Policy for Women to Access Housing & Land
1.Organizing structure in Central Am. & Guatemala
2.Focusing on key structures: Land Fund (Fon Tierra)
3.Tools for partnering with government: MOUs& how they give us access to info & decision makers
4. Women analyzing opportunities & risks (re loan fund and World Bank mandate of gender equality in implementation)
a) Challenges that emerged: terms that lock women out (interest rates, limits on who can apply, costs/pressure to legalize their unions for joint land title
b) Alliances & lobbying among women to push priorities & establish public office for women & land information/access—public validity
5. Outcomes:a)Women say no to the offer: terms &
corrupt realities; Mayan woman appointed to Bd. of Dir.s—accessing & sharing info inside to out
b)High loan insolvency rates stalls program; women’s office closes in 2006
c)Women design an alternative public policy & lobbying today with national machineries
6. Lessons Learneda) gains can be made: political skills,
relationships & alternative proposals by women (alt. capacity building program made this possible)
-- BUT: good practices of women & cooperation among women/officials can’t yield real gains if public policy is corrupt/exclusionary
b) way forward 3 way: civil society (grassroots) govt. & international cooperation—requires joint monitoring & evaluation of whether social clauses (gender equality, propoor) are being realized
World Bank – Gives grant for Land Fund – Land Fund result of Peace
Agreements
Land Fund (Min of Agric) –
World Bank – Gives grant for Land Fund
Land Fund (Min of Agric) – Has a mandate to seek women’s input
Fundacion Guatemala
World Bank – Gives grant for Land Fund
Land Fund (Min of Agric) – Has a mandate to seek women’s input
Fundacion Guatemala– Facilitating the National Network for Right to Land and Property (GR Orgs) – Develop analysis to Land Fund, Have a partnership (MOU) with Land Fund
World Bank – Gives grant for Land Fund
Land Fund (Min of Agric) – Has a mandate to seek women’s input
Fundacion Guatemala– Facilitating the National Network for Right to Land and Property (GR Orgs) – Develop analysis to Land Fund, Have a partnership (MOU) with Land Fund –
partnership with National Machinery for Women to influence Land Fund
National Machinery for Women – developed institutional
arrangement inside the National Policy for Women to access land and housing
World Bank – Gives grant for Land Fund
Land Fund (Min of Agric) – Has a mandate to seek women’s input
Fundacion Guatemala– Facilitating the National Network for Right to Land and Property (GR Orgs) – Develop analysis to Land Fund, Have a partnership (MOU) with Land Fund
National Machinery for Women developed institutional
arrangement inside the National Policy for Women to access land and housing -
influences Land Fund
World Bank – Gives grant for Land Fund
Land Fund (Min of Agric) – Has a mandate to seek women’s input
Fundacion Guatemala– Facilitating the National Network for Right to Land and Property (GR Orgs) – Develop analysis to Land Fund, Have a partnership (MOU) with Land Fund –
partnership with National Machinery for Women to influence Land Fund
National Machinery for Women – developed institutional
arrangement inside the National Policy for Women to access land and housing
Action Agenda – developed as
response to input
World Bank – Gives grant for Land Fund
Land Fund (Min of Agric) – Has a mandate to seek women’s input
Fundacion Guatemala– Facilitating the National Network for Right to Land and Property (GR Orgs) – Develop analysis to Land Fund, Have a partnership (MOU) with Land Fund,
partnership with National Machinery for Women in influence Land Fund
National Machinery for Women – developed institutional
arrangement inside the National Policy for Women to access land and housing
Action Agenda – developed as
response to input
Land Offices for Women -
develop as a result of Action Agenda
Min of Agric and Land Fund Reformulation
Fundacion Guatemala– Facilitating the National Network for Right to Land and Property (GR Orgs)
National Machinery for Women
Rural Development Policy (base for Agrarian Policy)
Recommendations
• Institutional arrangements• Invest in scaling up • Develop policy frameworks and guidelines that embeds
citizen-driven good governance in development aid policies and programs