Advocacy and documenting women's research the ‘WORDOC way’

Abstract

Women and gender issues have been discussed globally pointing out areas where needs must be met in order to put the marginalized and disadvantaged at an advantage. Some of the biggest challenges to advancing gender equality, health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women across Africa are (1) poverty, inequality and social exclusion of women and girls from vital decision-making spheres; (2) work overload on female leaders due to failure to identify more capable and willing females, thus hampering the achievement of affirmative action; and (3) failure of the system to design and sustain pro-women succession plans in community leadership across the continent. These and more are being creatively combated via cooperative interaction, symbiotic acquisition of cosmopolitan leadership skills, domesticating global leadership strategies for addressing emerging trends and building all-inclusive development communication by improving access to information (ATI). Amidst these strategies, there is still more to be done, as new challenges emerge and human and capital facilities to surmount the numerous challenges are diminishing. This study is descriptive and exploratory as it presents the work of Women's Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC) as case study, hence the ‘WORDOC Way’. With the mission to spear-head evidence-based research for impactful community-based project and social development by maintaining a documentation center for the use of scholars, researchers and other interested persons,...