Gender and governance in rural services:insights from India,Ghana,and Ethiopia - The World Bank (The World Bank Washington,D C, 2010)
Keywords: Rural development, Rural Women -- Rural development projects in India in Case studies. Rural development projects -- Ghana -- Case studies. Rural development projects in Ethiopia in Case studies. -- Providing agricultural and rural services, better serving the rural poor including rural women, governance reforms and their promise for better service provision, making services work for the poor- world bank accountability framework, knowledge gaps, gender and governance in rural services project, objectives and structure of this report -- Conceptual framework and literature review : Actions and mechanisms that create accountability, strategies to make service provision more gender sensitive -- Gender and governance in India, Ghana and Ethiopia- comparative perspective, methodology, short route of accountability - households, community organizations and service providers, long route of accountability- political representatives and their linkages, comparing three countries, implications for policy and research, cross cutting insights for policy design and research, country specific recommendations, political incentives to improve outcomes for women -- gender & development