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Good Governance: Better policy starts here!

Looking to build stronger frameworks, smarter decisions, and more effective outcomes for women-led initiatives? Then dive into our Policy & Governance Concept Notes.

Why take the Policy and Governance perspective into account in the first place?

Policy and legal frameworks have the power to positively support innovation while also serving to provide support and security through other indirect measures, this is particularly true for women. This demand for a review of processes and tools that ensure gender considerations are built into policy and legal frameworks.

What do the Policy and Governance Concept Notes provide?

Each concept note:

Offers different insights to the range of ways policy and governance impacts women led innovation.
Point to tools that incorporate gender into policy and governance frameworks
Demonstrate that while evidence exists to point towards positive changes within legal and policy frameworks, practice and evidence on the ground lags behind.

Explore the Concept Notes to learn more:

Concept note 27: Government Frameworks

Focuses on the increasing shift to include feminist principles such as promoting gender norms of gender equality, into mainstream governance frameworks. It suggests that more work is required to embed this approach and ensure impact can be measured.

Concept note 28: Policy Frameworks

Explores the use of frameworks as a tool for integrating gender considerations into numerous policy fields. This approach then opens the opportunity to identify different ways to organise a programme of change that can support women led innovation.

Concept note 29: Legal Frameworks

Explores the restrictions of older legal frameworks placed on women-led initiatives. The potential of a gap between current legal frameworks and facts on the ground points to the need to consider whether current legal frameworks may have to develop further in a direction to support women-led initiatives when needed.

Concept Note 30: Affirmative Action

Spotlights the need to identify policies and measures that will remove roadblocks that marginalise women and actively promote, through policy and measures, additional opportunities and advantages until women can “ play the field” in relation to innovation.