Research

Objective 1: Conduct gender-responsive research on legal and social issues in Zambia.

Intervention:

•        Identify research issues.

•        Develop gender sensitive research proposals based on the identified issues and submit them to possible funders.

•        Conduct research and undertake a gender analysis of the research data

•        Disseminate research findings to relevant stakeholders

•        Identify strategic partners, programme activities, law and policy review informed by research findings.

Objective 2: Improve the research skills of researchers in Women and Law.

Intervention:

•        Identify and Build capacity of both women and men in gender sensitive research skills.

•        Develop a well-established gender focussed resource centre and depository of all research on gender and development (local, regional and international).

Objective 3: Explore and develop new methodologies and perspectives for the study of gender and the law.

Intervention:

•        Develop a learning space within WLSA (self-assessment of work done and how it informs the  future works)

•        Produce evidence-based publications.

•        Periodically carry out impact assessment of WLSA work.

•        Engage with learning and research institutions nationally, regionally and internationally to develop new methodologies.

•        Develop WLSA as a think tank.