This Framework outlines key considerations for developing a party’s gender policy, and addresses a variety of thematic areas essential for the advancement of women and promotion of gender equality within political parties, including leadership formation, internal decision making, internal oversight and institutional development, candidate recruitment, party programmes and platform development, outreach to voters, and campaigns.

This Sourcebook was developed to provide readily available and usable gendersensitivematerials and resources to build local government capacity for sustainable, equitable and inclusive human settlements.

Key findings: The impacts of introducing Temporary Special Measures (TSM) for municipal councils in Vanuatu differ between locations • Political parties are important players and need to be included in reform-focused activities • ‘Training’ needs to focus on ‘doing’ politics as well as on how to be a successful candidate • The dynamic between electors and elected is slow to change from one based on clientelism to one focused on policy-led development • Peer learning and support may overcome ‘critical mass’ deficiencies in any one location

This report provides a gender review of a decade and a half of World Bank infrastructure lending for 1,246 projects. The objective of this review is to assess the status of and trends in gender integration in the World Bank infrastructure portfolio, and to establish a baseline for monitoring and enhancing gender integration in line with commitments made for the 2006 Gender Action Plan.