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- Gender and Trade (7)
- Gender and Health (26)
- Gender and the Environment (22) new
- Men and Development (12)
- Violence against Women (42)
- Women in Aotearoa New Zealand@ (4)
- Women and Development (121)
- Women in Peace and Conflict@ (35)
- Women in the Pacific@ (18)
- Women's Issues (71)
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- Policy Research Report on Gender and Development
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Engendering Development is a Policy Research Report by the World Bank focusing on gender issues and their broad economic and social implications in developing and transitional countries.
http://www.worldbank.org/gender/prr/
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- Politics of the possible:Gender mainstreaming and organisational change: experiences from the field
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What actually happens to organisations during gender and organisational change endeavours? This book takes an in-depth look at the experience of seven Novib partner organisations in the Middle East and South Asia who undertook the challenge of the Gender Focus Programme. It recounts their analysis of their organisations, and the routes they chose to follow in managing the politically sensitive agenda of promoting gender equality in NGOs, and negotiating the contradictions between using Organisational Development tools and promoting gender equality. (M Mukhopadhyay, G Steehouwer, F Wong, Oxfam Novib, 2006)
http://www.kit.nl/development/html/publications_db.asp?ItemID=1959
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- Practising Gender Equality in Education
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Practising Gender Equality in Education AUTHOR: Sheila Aikman Elaine Unterhalter SERIES: Programme Insights DESCRIPTION Drawing on the work of the 'Beyond Access, Gender, Education, and Development' project, contributors discuss some of the key challenges in achieving gender equality in education, give examples of initiatives in a range of contexts, and make recommendations for action. They suggest that there is a more substantive goal to aim for than gender parity (i.e. the same proportion of girls and boys entering and completing schooling): we need to work towards an equitable education system which allows all individuals, irrespective of gender, to develop their potential. Includes chapters adapted from papers by Pauline Rose, Taylor Brown, Debbie Budlender, Sam Gibson, Nicola Swainson, and Janet Raynor.
http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?ISBN=9780855985981
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- Progress of the World's Women 2000: Executive Summary
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This report examines the progress of the world's women from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. It concentrates on the economic dimensions of gender equality and women's empowerment in the context of globalization.
http://www.undp.org/unifem/progressww/index.html
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- Project on a mechanism to address laws that discriminate against women [pdf]
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The aim of the project was to examine the advisability of creating a new mechanism to address laws that discriminate against women. This report considers the existing UN frameworks and the extent to which they address discriminatory laws as well as national data on laws that discriminate against women (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 6 March 2008)
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/laws_that_discriminate_against_women.pdf
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- Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq
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A groundbreaking report on the incidence, causes, and legalisation of gender-based violence in Iraq since the US-led invasion. Amidst the chaos and violence of US-occupied Iraq, women have increasingly been targeted. This report documents the use of gender-based violence by Iraqi Islamists, brought to power by the US overthrow of Iraq's secular Ba'ath regime, and highlights the role of the United States in fomenting the human rights crisis confronting Iraqi women today.
http://www.madre.org/articles/me/iraqreport.pdf
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- Promoting Gender Equality in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Asia Pacific: Engaging the Principles of the Paris Declaration [pdf]
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The development effectiveness of aid requires explicit gender equality goals and targets in national development strategies and budgetary processes. The Jakarta Declaration in August 2007 called for sustained efforts to address the large imbalances in the implementation of the Paris Declaration that weaken the advancement of gender equality.(UNIFEM discussion paper, 2007)
http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/AidEffectiveness_AsiaPacific_eng.pdf
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- Raising Voices
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Raising Voices is a registered non-profit project of the Tides Center working to create and promote community-based approaches to preventing violence against women and children. Raising Voices is committed to promoting the status of women and children. We envision families and communities where women and children's voices are heard, their rights respected, and they can live free of violence. Raising voices advocates for and support the development of sustainable programs working to prevent domestic violence.
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- Revisiting gender training : the making and remaking of gender knowledge : a global sourcebook (pdf)
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This book is concerned with the thinking behind gender education and training. The authors explore the explicit and, more often, implicit assumptions in gender training about the nature of knowledge (epistemology), imparting knowledge (pedagogy) and knowing (cognition).(KIT (Royal Tropical Institute), The Netherlands, Oxfam GB, 2007)
http://www.kit.nl/net/KIT_Publicaties_output/ShowFile2.aspx?e=1031
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- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
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Established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan. RAWA's objective is to involve an increasing number of Afghan women in social and political activities aimed at acquiring women's human rights and contributing to the struggle for the establishment of a government based on democratic and secular values in Afghanistan.
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- SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association)
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SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organised sector. They are the unprotected labour force of our country.
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- Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society
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Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society examines political systems and cultural institutions through the lens of gender. It addresses changes in family, state, market, and civil society, employing several disciplines and drawing from a variety of cultures to illuminate these areas of research.
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- Social Watch
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Social Watch is an international NGO watchdog network monitoring poverty eradication and gender equality.
http://www.socialwatch.org/en/portada.htm
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- Social Watch Report 2005 "Roars and Whispers - Gender and poverty: promises vs. action"
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SocialWatch, September 2005. This study shows that the international community has largely failed to live up to the commitments it adopted five years ago to eradicate poverty and promote development, a fact that has been highlighted with increasing urgency by civil society. Despite the promises made by governments, spending on social services is decreasing throughout the world while inequality has grown since 1990, according to the report, which was compiled by a research team based in Montevideo using statistical data from each country evaluated. In addition to country reports from the more than 50 countries that make up the Social Watch international citizens' network, the report includes a global study based on two new indexes designed to measure social development, the Basic Capabilities Index and the Gender Equity Index, which complement the human development indexes most commonly used until now in various aspects.
http://www.socialwatch.org/en/informeImpreso/tablaDeContenidos2005.htm
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- State of the World's Mothers 2005
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Across the globe, 58 million girls are not attending school. Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2005 examines the ways investing in girls' education can benefit present and future generations of children, and society as a whole. It points to effective, affordable programs and policies that are working, even in the world's poorest countries. Other highlights of the report include: Looking back 10 years at gains in girls' education in 71 developing countries (Girls' Education Progress Report), the report finds that countries have a mixed record when it comes to progress in girls' education. Looking 10 years forward (Forecasts for Children), the report identifies 11 developing countries that are "most likely to succeed" in improving children's quality of life in the next decade in three important areas of global development: achieving smaller, healthier families; educating all children; and reaching the Millennium Development Goal targets. The sixth annual Mothers' Index ranks the best and worst countries to be a mother, based on a review of 10 indicators of women's and children's well-being among 110 countries, including the United States.
http://www.savethechildren.org/mothers/report_2005/
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- Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP)
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TGNP is committed to facilitating social transformation leading to the creation of a vibrant Tanzanian society. It seeks to promote gender equality and social equity through the empowerment of women and other marginalised sections of the community. The organisation strives to enhance the mainstreaming of gender at all levels of society from grassroots communities to the highest levels of national policy making and legislation.
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- The Asian financial Crisis and Filipino Households: Impact on Women and Children (PDF)
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By Jenina Joy Chavez, Focus on the Global South and Save the Children (UK). The study focuses on Children and Women who bear the brunt of macro-economic crisis such as that in 1997. This study was conducted from March 1999 to March 2000.
http://www.focusweb.org/publications/Books/Women_and_children.htm
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- The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
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The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. Our goal is to cause policy, institutional and individual change that will improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. We do this by facilitating ongoing debates on fundamental and provocative issues as well as by building the individual and organizational capacities of those working for women's empowerment and social justice.
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- The Center for Women's Global Leadership (Global Center)
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The Global Center's programs promote the leadership of women and advance feminist perspectives in policy-making processes in local, national and international arenas. Since 1990, the Global Center has fostered women's leadership in the area of human rights through women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, UN monitoring, global education endeavors, publications, and a resource center. The Global Center works from a human rights perspective with an emphasis on violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and socio-economic well-being. The Global Center's programs are in two broad areas of policy & advocacy and leadership development & global education.
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- The Crosses of Juarez
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Since 1993 over 400 women from Ciudad Juarez, a large city on the US-Mexico border, have been murdered and over 70 are still missing. The victims are young women, generally under 29 years old. They are mostly poor, often workers in the maquiladoras (assembly factories), and live in the marginalized areas of the city. The Mexican authorities, under much pressure from human rights groups and NGOs, have so far failed to carry out proper investigations into the killings, and those responsible for the crimes remain unpunished. In this Open-Democracy piece journalist Carlos Reyes-Manzo documents in images and words a terrible and touching situation that shows no sign of abating.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-photography/crosses_3273.jsp
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- The Gender Agenda
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This final report from the EOC calls for action so that our systems and institutions can catch up with the way we live so that all women and men can achieve equality (Equal Opportunities Commission, July 2007).
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- The Gender Based Violence Prevention Network
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This website is the virtual community or meeting place for Network members and other colleagues and friends interested in violence prevention on the African Continent. It is a place for exchange, learning and dialogue. It is also a place where often hard to find regional and international resources about GBV prevention can be accessed. Organizations in the regions have been providing life-saving services for women and girls for many years. Increasingly, there is also the recognition that we must also invest our energy, intellect and resources into programs that work to prevent violence against women from occurring. It is our hope that the experiences shared and relationships built through the Network and this site will contribute to stronger GBV prevention programs throughout the regions. The website is filled with the experiences, innovations and knowledge of over 100 member organizations throughout the Horn, East and Southern Africa.
http://www.preventgbvafrica.org/
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- The Gender Dimension of Economic Transition in Mongolia
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(2000) The process of creating a market economy in former socialist countries has proved to be complex.Whereas the changes in Asian transitional economies appear to be motivated primarily by economic considerations, Mongolia s sudden political changes have been driven by dramatic economic shocks, external and internal. The social costs have been borne unevenly by different groups within Mongolia s population and social inequality is growing. One dimension of difference in this transition relates to gender. Why does gender matter in economics? What gender-related issues have emerged as a result of transition in Mongolia? This chapter examines these two questions. It also introduces a macro-economic model which incorporates both the productive and reproductive economies and makes it possible to link economic objectives to social development ones.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/fulltext/GenderMong.pdf
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- The Gender Equity Index - a new perspective [PDF]
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The GEI developed by Social Watch measures gender equity by evaluating the dimensions of education, economic activity and participation in political and economic decision-making ("empowerment"). It is a tool that will serve as a first step towards combining these different dimensions in a single index.
http://www.socialwatch.org/en/informeImpreso/pdfs/gei2005_eng.pdf
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- The Gender-Energy-Poverty Nexus: Finding the Energy to Address Gender Concerns in Development
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This paper explores current thinking on the gender-energy-poverty nexus, in particular to review the key issues and highlight areas that need to be addressed, and to suggest actions and further studies that need to be undertaken in order to "find the energy to address gender concerns". (Technology and Development Group, University of Twente, Netherlands, 2007?)
http://www.utwente.nl/cstm/tsd/research/current/gender/nexus.pdf
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