Gender Sensetiveness of Social Accountability Program: The Case of Libo Kemkem Woreda of South Gondar
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2016-08
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Addis Ababa University
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This study explores the role the social accountability program in order to verify its potential as effective approach to gender mainstreaming. It is a case study that looks in to the social accountability program in selected kebeles of Libokemkem woerda, South Gondar. Through utilizing qualitative data collection and analysis on a purposive sample, the study intended to; document the procedures taken in the social accountability program to make it gender sensitive and the achievement of those procedures, illustrate the deterring factors in the process of making the program gender sensitive and finally recommend solution to those deterring factors as well as identify lesson for social work practice. Hence, the study finding revealed that in the midst of several impediments, the various gender oriented activities conducted in the program were able to produce some positive tangible and non-tangible changes in the community of the study area. However the study had also reviled that these achievements of the program fell short of its potential. Based on these findings the study highlights on the need to further develop this program as a major approach to gender mainstreaming
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Social Work