Gender and SSR Toolkit: Penal Reform and Gender
This Tool on Penal Reform and Gender is part of a Gender and SSR Toolkit. Designed to provide a practical introduction to gender issues for security sector reform practitioners and policy-makers,the Toolkit includes the following 12 Tools and corresponding Practice Notes: 1) Security Sector Reform and Gender,2) Police Reform and Gender,3) Defence Reform and Gender,4) Justice Reform and Gender,5) Penal Reform and Gender,6) Border Management and Gender,7) Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender,8) National Security Policy-Making and Gender,9) Civil Society Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender,1) Private Military and Security Companies and Gender,11) SSR Assessment,Monitoring and Evaluation and Gender,12) Gender Training for Security Sector Personnel. This tool on penal reform and gender provides guidance on responding to gender issues within penal systems. It aims to assist those responsible for management,policy making or reform of prisons within their own countries; international and regional actors supporting prison reform; as well as parliamentarians,civil society organisations and others that play a role in overseeing and monitoring prisons.