CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Islan, Nasra Abdikadir |
|---|---|
| Title | Securing Women's Right to Political Participation: Through the Adoption of Quota System in Somalia |
| Summary | The clan based political representation of Somalia combined with others factors such as socio-economic, cultural beliefs and stereotypes, lack of proper functioning institutions, unconducive political environment and fragile security prove to be a barrier to the realization of human rights in general and specifically gender equality in the leadership and decision-making structures. As Somalia is undergoing a historic and critical moment politically, moving towards a democratic and inclusive political system, the approach and position to women’s representation in political structures is being defined. This paper looks at the problems to women’s political participation in Somalia and in comparison with the Kenya experience, has sought to give recommendations of the pre-necessary and practical conditions for effective implementation of gender quota system. This paper has proposed ways to reconcile the constitutional moment with the implementation challenges of quota system by going beyond the current approach of adopting a symbolic top down move that lacks serious commitment and political will. The proposed approach to increasing the women’s political representation in Somalia is a combined approach one rather a sequencing one through the adoption of a gender quota and through applying gender mainstreaming -combination of both the fast track and incremental track through gender mainstreaming to equal political representation. The combination of both tracks will bring in both a top down and bottom up approach to increasing women’s political representation. |
| Supervisor | Zentai, Violetta |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/islan_nasra.pdf |
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