The Impact of Political Participation and Capacity Building on Empowerment of Women Councilors With Reference to Women Political School Project in Pakistan

Abstract

The democratic government should be representative of the population. LGO 2001 brought a space for the marginalized community including women and minority in the local government system. A 33% quota was fixed for women political participation. To enable women to participate in politics with full of their capacity, civil society organization launched capacity building services for women. The present research aims at finding out impact of women political participation and their capacity building on their role performance in public and private sphere. The triangulation approach using case study and survey method was applied for conducting research on women councilors in district Muzaffargarh. A total of 100 women councilors were taken into the sample frame using Multi Stage Cluster Sampling and Systematic Random Sampling. The subjects for case study were selected through purposive sampling. It concludes that with political participation, women have achieved better status at household and society level and the training has improved role performance of women councilors.

Keywords: Devolution plan, Women Political participation, Pakistan

JEL Classification: C42, H11, H53