Gender-Responsive Governance in Sierra Leone

John Idriss Lahai is a scholar in applied international development, gender and women studies, transitional justice and human rights, multi-level governance in fragile states, refugee and migration studies, human geography, regional planning, and peace and conflict studies. He is the author of over a dozen books published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, among other internationally recognized academic publishing houses. He is currently an affiliate of the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities and The Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS) of the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Lahai sits on the advisory board of Rowman & Littlefield’s newly constituted book series "Migration, Displacement, and Development." He has consulted/worked for several governments and international agencies (working on mitigating state fragility in the Global South).

• Introduction; PART I: Theories, Concepts, and Issues; 1. Theorizing Gender-Responsive Governance, Women’s Agency and Empowerment, and the Logic of (In)quality and Transitions to Equality; PART II: The Logic of Inequality in the Bounded Spaces of Sexuality, Violence, and Discrimination; 2. The Histories and Boundaries of State-Capture: Sexuality, Power, and Belonging; 3. Locating Inequality in the Formal and Informal Economic Sector; 4. How Society Created an Education Sector that Propagated Inequality; 5. Politics, Electoral Violence, and Gender Inequality; 6. Then Came the Era of a Civil War and Its Aftermath: Women’s Lives in War and Peace; PART III: The Logic and Transitions to Gender-Responsive Governance, Equality, and Empowerment; 7. Feminizing the Quasi-Institutional Interventions to End Sexual Violence; 8. Women, the State, and the Rise of a Gender-Responsive Knowledge-Economy; 9. ‘Let’s Quantify the Contributions of Women’: Costing of Equality via Gender-Responsive Budgeting; 10. Creating the ‘Local State’ and Expanding the Decentralized Space for Women’s Grassroots Political Participation