What is leadership

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What is leadership?

• Katrine Danielsen
• Advisor Social Development and Gender Equity
• Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)

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Overview of presentation

• 1) Who am I?
• Academic Education
• My carrier path
• Moulding experiences and responses
• 2) Royal Tropical Institute
• General
• Department of Development Policy and Practice
• The Social Development and Gender Equity Area
• 3) The assignment

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Who am I?

• Academic Education
• M.Sc. in Social Geography, Department of
  Geography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark,
  1995
• Post-graduate courses in Human Rights, Gender
  Studies and Communication, Departments of
  Anthropology and Political Science, University of
  Copenhagen

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Who am I?

• Professional Experience
• Guest researcher, Centre for Development
  Research, Copenhagen
• Associate Expert on Women Workers and Gender
  Concerns for South Asia, International Labour
  Office, New Delhi
• Associate Gender Expert, ILOs Bureau for Gender
  Equality, Geneva
• Programme Coordinator Nepal and Niger, CARE
  Danmark
• Socio-Economic Advisor, DANIDA, Nepal
• Social Development and Gender Equity Advisor,
  Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam

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Who am I moulding experiences?

• When there is so much unemployment in the world,
  why should we promote the employment of women?
  Trade Union representative, India
• Surprise Content work on women workers rights
  and gender concerns very difficult because of
  institutional barriers. These also penetrate the
  organizations that exist to promote these rights
  and concerns .
• Response I worked on organizational change to
  make work on women workers rights and gender
  issues possible.

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Who am I moulding experiences?

• Gender sensitive policies and strategies are
  confined to paper. They are hardly implemented
  locally. It is the most privileged who talk the
  most and make the decisions. Member of
  HIMAVANTI, local womens organization
• Situation Forest resources are an essential part
  of womens livelihood strategies in Nepal. Yet,
  womens influence in forestry governance is
  negligible and few measures are taken by public
  authorities to address the root causes of gender
  disparity.
• Less than 1 of the employees of the Ministry of
  Forests are women.
• My response To work with participatory action
  learning groups involving all sector actors.

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Who am I moulding experiences?

• Why should we work on domestic violence that
  is not a health issue! Researcher from India in
  research project on maternal health
• Maternal health still mainly seen as a medical
  problem/ a problem of service delivery.
• A study in a district in India showed that 16
  of maternal deaths was due to intimate partner
  violence.
• Violence is a public health issue action is
  needed to address the wider social, cultural and
  economic barriers to maternal health, including
  the unequal status and rights of women.

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Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)

• Founded in 1910 as colonial research institute
• Now independent, non-for-profit knowledge
  institute on poverty alleviation, sustainable
  development and cultural preservation and
  exchange
• Wide range of clients and partners
• Key to our approach is a focus on both policy and
  practice for development. We bring experience in
  the field to the policy debate.

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Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)

• KIT has 6 Departments
• Development Policy Practice
• Biomedical Research
• Intercultural Management and Communication
• Information Library Services
• Tropical Museum and Theatre
• Kit Publishers

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KIT Development Policy Practice

• We are 70 staff involved in research, training
  and advisory work
• We specialize in four areas
• Health
• Education
• Sustainable Economic Development
• Social Development and Gender Equity/SDGE

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KIT/SDGE Social Development and Gender Equity

• Focus areas
• Gender education and training
• Gender-inclusive citizenship and participatory
  governance
• Gender mainstreaming
• Rights-based approaches to development

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RBA - the process
Rights as freedoms
Filtered through policies and actions of
institutions duty-bearers
Contested and made real through public action by
rights-holders
Voice and Accountability
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Assignment

• This summer, SDGE is jointly organizing a course
  with the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS)
  at the University of the Witwatersrand in South
  Africa.
• The course is entitled
• Building Capacity for Rights Democracy and
  Development in Africa.

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Assignment

• The objectives of the course are to
• Reach a common understanding of Rights Based
  Approaches (RBA) to advocacy and development.
• Develop practical approaches to operationalising
  rights based approaches in advocacy and
  development programmes.
• Build capacity for advancing rights within
  development and activist organizations.

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Assignment

• Purpose of assignment
• Explore how SDGE could improve the promotion of
  the course to i) potential participants and ii)
  donors/sponsors.
• Suggested products
• A communication plan, and a promotion campaign
  and materials for the course (anticipating that
  SDGE will organize the course on a yearly basis).