[WiLT] Getting Women into Local Strategic Partnerships:

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Getting Women into Local Strategic Partnerships:
Knowing your community, improving public services

This paper, based on two pilot projects conducted by Oxfam with LSPs in
Sunderland and Thurrock in 2008-9, looks at how local authorities can increase
the representation and participation of women in LSPs, and how needs differ by
gender.

The evidence from the pilot projects clearly shows that LSPs can, and must, take
concrete steps to involve women more effectively in local decision-making - and
take their particular needs into consideration in setting targets for services
such as transport, unemployment, and housing - in order to improve their
economic and social well-being and tackle the poverty and social exclusion they
face.

The paper makes a series of recommendations to those involved in LSPs as to how
to do this, and gives examples of good practice.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/gender/downloads/bp_ukpp_getting_women_into_lsps.pdf