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The role of national machineries, as a way to promote the status of women, acquired international relevance during the World Conference on the International Women's Year, in Mexico City in 1975. This book reflects Division for the Advancement of Women's (DAW) long-standing interest in the area of national machineries, bringing together the experiences, research and insights of experts. The first part of the book sets out the major issues facing national machineries at the conceptual level. It reflects upon five aspects of democratization: devolution or decentralization; the role of political parties; monitoring and auditing systems; and the importance of increasing the presence of women within institutions of the state and government. The second part is a comparative analysis and sets out the major issues facing national machineries at the political level. A combination of factors, including civil society, state bodies and political actors, need to come together for national machineries to function effectively in the interest of gender equality. Next comes the 'lessons learned' by national machineries in mainstreaming gender. National machineries should have an achievable agenda, an important part of which must be 'a re-definition of gender issues. The third part contains case studies that build upon the specific experiences of national machineries in different countries. The successful experience of Nordic countries in gender mainstreaming is also discussed.
how space, time and the body are (re)ordered through repetitive routines and surveillance which mesh various modes of discipline, ranging from panoptic surveillance to verbal chastisement to audit systems’ measurement to create the neoliberal subject. Drawing on de Certeau’s concept of strategies, it describes how Dreamfields as a subject with 38 Factories for learning ‘will and power’ isolates itself, establishing a ‘break between a place appropriated as one’s own and its other’ (1988: 36). This is a useful way to think through Dreamfields’ demarcation of itself
precise protocols and undertaking institutional audits. Nationally, elite professional bodies and leading specialists produced guidelines to inform local developments, and sought to establish national datasets and audit systems. Through these changes, previously informal measures regulating clinical activity became explicit, and the rhythms and content of care became subject to new forms of structure and review. The Conservative governments of the 1980s and 1990s had also become interested in guidelines and medical audit. Motivated by historic
’ — and ends with a concluding chapter. Part I sets out the major issues facing national machineries at the conceptual level. In chapter 1, Shirin M. Rai examines the major issues that need to be considered in the evaluation of national machineries. Rai argues that national machineries are part of the process of democratizing the state and hence of good governance. She reflects upon five aspects of democratization that are critical for national machineries: devolution or decentralization; the role of political parties; monitoring and auditing systems of the national
the temporality and content of clinical activity in order to integrate dispersed labour. Amid professional and popular anxiety about the quality of British medical practice, elite specialists and GPs also developed the first national guideline and audit systems, designed to inform local care and structure national provision. In doing so, these practitioners incorporated previously academic tools for research and healthcare assessment into routine care. Moreover, acting through statutory bodies associated with the NHS and the standard-setting bodies of the Royal
documents to organisational forms and structures that avoid the stereotyped tradition of faculty fiefdoms and baronial deans. Universities need strong central authority firmly directing engagement policy institution-wide, with rules, arrangements, reports and audit systems that inform the academic board or senate and the governing authority. Personnel and resource allocation policies and practices have to be aligned with the principles of open system engagement, inducing corresponding attitudes and behaviour. Traditions of university governance and academic autonomy vary
lobbied ministers, and policy networks produced quantified measures of the costs of the disease and its complications. 64 With the government interested in new forms of professional management, chronic diseases like diabetes provided promising subjects for piloting new programmes. Healthcare teams were already using many of the tools required for implementation, whilst elite professional bodies and international organisations were creating standards documents, clinical guidelines, and model audit systems. There were alternative routes to promoting managed medicine
:2, Third, or Fail, against 13 weighted criteria: publicly available environmental policy, environmental management staff, environmental auditing systems, ethical investment policy, carbon management ethical procurement and fairtrade, sustainable food, staff and student engagement, curriculum, energy resources, waste and recycling, carbon reduction and water reduction.3 It combines data obtained directly from universities through the UK Freedom of Information Act with Estates Management Statistics data obtained from the UK’s Higher Education Statistics Agency. Around the
retreat from institutional formality and hierarchy. The second is a normative variation of the first theme. It assigns a positive value to the changes described by the first image and looks at the regulatory state as ‘smart’ governance, governance that moves with intelligence ‘between different regulatory modes according to circumstance’ (Moran, 2003: 24). The third is an image of cultural and technological responses to risk, and points to the proliferation of auditing systems and intensification of system-level regulatory control, as described by Power’s account of the
and representative assemblies. As Figure 8.1 also shows, the organisation has two sponsor departments, one in each jurisdiction, and its funding comes through their departmental votes, two-thirds from Dublin and one-third from Belfast. Other complexity comes in the form of audits for both audit systems, North/South pension schemes and other governance arrangements (for