Key Principles for Policy Development

With the collaboration of the WO=MEN, KIT Gender has made a forum on 16 January 2014. This form of one day event have brought together over 60 practitioners, makers of policies, researchers, lobbyists and the specialists of gender with the single aim for stimulating the discussions for the transformation practices and the approaches towards the rights of women and gender equality (Allwood, 2013).

The forum has been examining the two key principles that have been shaped for forming the policy for the development. Firstly, the empowerment takes place through the rise in the population and the form of integration from the economy and secondly, the high demand impacts the measurable and the quantifiable form of data. Both the factors have the detrimental form of effects on the advancements of the equality towards the gender and they have the undetermined form of approaches that are very critical for having a change in the society. Therefore, it is extremely important for analyzing the shaping of the knowledge about gender and for the identification of the critical form of the engagement.

The forum also identified the various transformation approaches and the practices that are necessary for the equity of the rights of the women in their challenging form of the landscape. The speeches and the key aspects delivered by Wendy Harcourt, Maitrayee Mukhopadhay and six other representatives of the organizations have shared the opportunities, dilemmas and the challenges that are being experienced for promoting the rights of the women and the gender equality in the era of neoliberalization (Eerdewij & Davids, 2014).

The nature of the good practices are often used for the promotion of the equity and sharing the experiences for the mainstreaming of the gender into the various policies and the programmes that are being practiced by the member of the State Institutions (Hills, 2015). After the comparisons drawn between the definitions and the sources that are termed as good practice, best practices, or the lessons learned that are generally used interchangeably. 

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