Title: Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policies for Post COVID-19 Africa
Subtitle: Mapping the Social Policy Landscape in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda
Subject Classification:  Gender Studies, Society and Culture, Politics and Government  
BIC Classification: JFSJ1, JHBC, JP
BISAC Classification: POL053000, SOC032000, POL029000
Binding: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
Publication date: 06 Aug 2023
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80441-166-7
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80441-167-4
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-80441-435-4

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Description

This book is the outcome of a detailed research study to examine the trajectories, processes and outcomes of education, health, employment, water, sanitation and hygiene social policies in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, and to propose gender-equitable and transformative post COVID-19 social policy in these sectors. Though there is progress in varying degrees in these countries to attaining gender equity, there are still significant gender gaps in many areas. As well as examining the current situation, the study also plots progress longitudinally in 20-year periods from 1940 to the present day, and comparatively amongst the four featured countries. It provides both a rare and valuable historical study, as well as an up-to-date working policy framework. The research derives from the GETSPA (Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post COVID-19 Africa) project, coordinated by the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana and conducted across the wider African continent. The book is a valuable resource for policy-makers at national and pan-national level, NGOs, and African Studies researchers. The study closely tracks the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), most particularly SDG 5 on Gender Equality, but also those dealing with Education, Employment, Health, and Water, Hygiene and Sanitation.

Biography

Editor(s):  Dr Julius Omona is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

Reviews

This book provides a much needed rigorous and empirical analysis of the social, economic and educational policies in each of these four countries. Each country specific chapter is written by an African scholar from the specific country with a deep understanding of policy development within the country as well as internationally…A strength of this book is that each chapter connects the larger international policies such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s structural adjustment policies on the education and economic development of each country…The detail with which each author does this is a resource and provides an overarching understanding of policy development that can appear to be isolated and disparate when looking at individual policies. This book is a must read for students of policy development, scholars, and researchers on this topic, and those involved in social policy development. The content area of this book is specific to these four east African countries, but the framework for examining these policies is transferrable to other countries with an experience of colonial rule.
- Joanne Corbin PhD, Dean and Professor of Adelphi University School of Social Work