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283.4.2 Career impactOne of the most visible impacts seen from the survey concerns graduate careermobility: 80% of respondents felt their career had advanced since graduation (andbearing in mind some respondents had only recently graduated in 2012, so this figuremight be even higher). Career mobility may be attributed to a large number of factors(personal contacts push and pull factors, and other wise). But what can be said with adegree of certainty is that career mobility was greatly improved from before thecourse to after graduation. It is striking since graduation how many graduates haveprogressed in their career (a clear majority according to the survey). The surveyreveals some significant patterns in mobility before and after graduation, depicted asfollows:Table 3.5: Career changeMajor trends include the following:There is a relatively large increase in graduates moving to international NGOs andintergovernmental agencies such as the UN and also EU, ICC etc. Graduates moveon to jobs that are generally characterised by a higher level range of tasks, typicallyinvolving analysis, research, greater responsibility, such as for programme reporting,and/or, conceptualising projects, fundraising and other wise. As one non-lawyerrespondent suggested, “as ‘semi-lawyers’ it is now easier to analyse projects involvinglaws, it has helped me understand the law and simplified it. The job required such aMasters. I now manage a human rights project, including some on gender equality, of1 million Euros through UN Women. The skills added have helped me”. In the
context of increased demand for higher skilled people in Africa, the course iscontributing significantly to meeting the demand for and by skilled Africans.Another key trend appears to be the high increase in graduates going into theUniversity sector. This pattern was particularly noticeable in Kenya and which wasconfirmed in interviews (see later on regional capacity). In addition, consultancy inthese different arenas is another key development. All of these developmentsconfirm greatly enhanced level of skills and with it, opportunities for increasedearnings.Conversely, there appears to be a significant movement away from the public sector.Though off-set to some extent by the move into the university sector- it nonethelessreflects an overall net loss to national state sector. There is also movement awayfrom national level NGOs. There is also a very low number from local governmentundertaking the course.Graduate mobility across sectors of course takes place for many reasons and shouldbe regarded as affording graduates higher level opportunities. Nonetheless, thepredominant shift, namely one from the public sector, is not necessarily win-winbecause it may weaken the duty bearer responsible for policy and legalimplementation that impact women, namely, the state.3.5 Institutional impactEvaluating institutional impact is gauged largely by what individual graduates havedone in the respective organisations where they are working. The section identifiesthe range of key fora where one would expect to find leverage for influencing andimpacting in terms of decision-making. Such fora include policy-making andlegislation across state and NGO sectors and other related areas. Furthermore,graduate contribution is augmented by the reflections of employees and otherstakeholders related to women’s issues to produce a triangulated picture ofinstitutional impact (see annex of informants).3.5.1 Graduates in institutional spaces in Zimbabwe, Zambia andKenyaWe probed graduate responses in order to ask them to identify their contributionsand to correlate these with institutional spaces influential in shaping woman’s legaland social status. Like many of the responses recorded, and some of whose evidenceis presented in this section, there is a very close link between course approaches andits transfer into the work place. For some additional examples taken from the surveyconcerning graduate publications and other outputs/achievements- please refer toAnnex 5. Though difficult to attribute to the Masters alone, respondents did relate awide range of impacts to which they claim contribution.29Case Study One: Public spaces- Law, Parliament and Police in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Zambia
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