Gender Audit of Local Governance Legal Frameworks, Policies and Other Instruments in Tanzania - Abridged Version

This publication aims to identify the existing gender gaps in legal frameworks and policies to enable the integration of gender issues to increase the leadership roles of women and women with disabilities in local decision-making and ensure that they are equal beneficiaries of development interventions. The Gender Audit also looks beyond just the numbers of women present in the different committees and assemblies at the village, mtaa/street, ward, township and district levels to the quality of women’s participation to identify the constraints that are preventing them from influencing the decisions of the local governance organs. The women’s involvement significantly impacts their role as agents of change for engendering local development.