Equity issues are again attracting attention from academics and policy analysts concerned with taxation. This book makes a substantial contribution to this new awareness by emphasizing the important role that gender, like other social stratifications such as race and income, often plays in determining?

Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) has become an internationally acknowledged tool for supporting implementation of commitments towards achieving gender equality and the realization of women's rights. UNIFEM contributes extensively to building interest, capacity and commitment to incorporate a gender?

The achievement of gender equality is a sine qua non to the achievement of all the Millennium Development Goals. The existence of MDG 3 on Gender Equality notwithstanding, the success of poverty reduction, universal basic education, child health, maternal health, the eradication of diseases such as?

Participantsat the Annual Conference on African Women in Politics held on the 7^th – 9^th June 2010, organized by the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) have called on governments to, among other things, strengthen legal and policy frameworks in their?

We strongly believe that people are at the centre of a comprehensive and sustainable social and economic development framework. At the end of the day all activities of the government must create positive impact for people. Since the people comprise heterogeneous groups which face different realities,?

Taking into account the needs, priorities and opinions of both women and men of the territory, ensuring that both benefit equally from social change and economic growth, and that gender inequalities are eliminated, are all essential for the success of any local economic development (LED) strategy?

No documento Que tipo de Estado? Que tipo de igualdade? analisa-se o progresso da igualdade de gnero na Regio depois de 15 anos da aprovao da Plataforma de Ao de Beijing, 10 anos da formulao dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milnio e 3 anos da adoo do Consenso de Quito, na dcima Conferncia?

Le document Quel genre d'tat pour quel genre d’galit? analyse les progrs de l’galit entre les sexes dans la rgion, 15 ans aprs l’adoption du Programme d’action de Beijing, 10 ans aprs la formulation des objectifs du Millnaire pour le dveloppement et 3 ans aprs l’adoption du Consensus?

The document What kind of State? What kind of equality? analyses the progress of gender equality in the region 15 years after the approval of the Beijing Platform for Action, 10 years after the drafting of the Millennium Development Goals and 3 years after the adoption of the Quito Consensus?

The 9^th Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting (9WAMM) was held in Bridgetown, Barbados on 7-9 June 2010. Delegations from 32 countries attended the Meeting. The Meeting was opened by the Hon Freundel Stuart, Acting Prime Minister of Barbados and chaired by the Hon Stephen Lashley,?

The Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries Report is published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group. The publication provides some information on the broad development trends relating to gender, poverty and environmental issues in the 53 African?

The Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries Report is published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group. The publication provides some information on the broad development trends relating to gender, poverty and environmental issues in the 53 African?

The MENA-OECD Conference on Gender Equality in Government and Business brought together participants from 19 OECD countries, 14 MENA countries, and several regional and international organisations including the Arab Administrative Development Organisation, the World Bank, UNIFEM, and the Union of?

Recent decades have seen great advances in gender equality at national and global levels, particularly since the 4^th World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Today, issues of gender equality and women’s empowerment have been taken into account in many national planning systems and?

Despite the policy realm’s growing recognition of fiscal devolution in gender development, there have been relatively few attempts to translate gender commitments into fiscal commitments. This paper aims to engage in this significant debate, focusing on the plausibility of incorporating gender into?

Over the last year, the world has seen the biggest recession in almost a century. It is clear that recovery will require, among other things, the best of talent, ideas and innovation. It is therefore more important now than ever before for countries and companies to pay heed to one of the fundamental?

The Capacity Building Component constitutes one of the 3 components of the Monitoring and Evaluation Programme that is centred around the implementation of the African Plan of Action to accelerate the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action. It is planned to prepare and facilitate?

AIDS Accountability International (AAI) is an independent non-profit organization established to increase accountability and inspire bolder leadership in the response to the AIDS epidemic. AAI does this by rating and comparing the degree to which public and private actors are fulfilling the commitments?

Children and women are the heart of Zambian society, the forefront of national development, and the leaders of the future. Whether we focus on poverty reduction, economic development, service delivery or social inclusion, benefits for children and women are integral to our shared objectives, and their?

En mars 2010, les gouvernements se runiront New York pour examiner les progrs accomplis dans la mise en oeuvre du Programme d’action de Beijing, 10 ans aprs son adoption.

In March 2010, Governments will assemble in New York to review progress made in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), fifteen (15) years after its adoption.

The Executive Committee of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) at its meeting on 24 September 2008 supported the organization of the Beijing +15 regional review meeting in the ECE region with a focus on economic aspects of gender.

We, the participants at the Stakeholders meeting on the Domestication and Implementation of the African Union Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa held on 16th - 18th July 2009 in Kigali, Rwanda, organised by African Union Commission, United?

The development of an index that best suits the needs and aspirations of the continent is timely as the region takes stock of progress in gender equality through the accountability processes of ICPD +15 and Beijing +15 reviews of 2009. The African Women's Report (AWR) is also being launched at a time?

About this book: Budgets are not gender neutral. They affect women and men in different ways, reflecting the uneven distribution of power within society as economic disparities, different living conditions, and ascribed social roles. Despite being signatories to the major international agreements?

Accountability key to meeting national gender equality goals, says UN report

Who Answers to Women? Unifem campaign on gender and accountability

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive human rights issue with public health consequences. It often goes unrecognized and unreported, is accepted as part of the "nature of things" and is shrouded in a culture of silence. Although reliable data on the prevalence of the various forms of?

Le but de cette publication est de servir de guide la pratique de l’intgration d’une perspective de genre dans le processus budgtaire. Il ne s’agit pas d’un livre d’initiation. Il existe beaucoup de publications qui expliquent les raisons, l’environnement et l’histoire de l’intgration d’une perspective?

The focus of this publication is to act as a guide to the practice of gender budgeting. It is not a first-step book. There are many publications which articulate the rationale for, the background to and the history of gender budgeting and a sample of these are listed toward the end of the handbook?

Despite the fundamental importance of gender equality, progress in Africa is slow. It will take much greater and more effective work by all partners to accelerate the pace of change.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a grave reality in the lives of many women in Tanzania. It results from gender norms and social and economic inequities that give privilege to men over women. There is a mounting recognition in Tanzania of gender discrimination and gender equity in different facets of?

Committments made at the conference entitled the Women's Platform for Action in Africa, held in Midrand from the 22 to 24 October 2008, bringing together about 200 women representing about every country on the African continent to deliberate on various issues under the theme: Women's quest?

This study was commissioned by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA) in order to summarise the most important theoretical and practical lessons learnt on corruption in two of Finland’s long-term development partner countries, Nicaragua and Tanzania.

This empirical study looks at coordination and cooperation within five district councils in Tanzania with a special focus on efforts to reduce maternal mortality.

Este estudo o primeiro de uma srie de trs sobre polticas de gnero e feminizao da pobreza em Moambique, a realizar no perodo 2008-2010.

This study is the first in a series of three on gender policies and feminisation of poverty in Mozambique, to be carried out in the period 2008-2010.

The Budgeting for Reproductive Rights resource pack was produced under a UNFPA/UNIFEM Strategic Partnership aimed at developing a Coordinated Approach for Effective Technical Assistance to Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB). This partnership is intended to build the capacity of UNFPA's?

• Women in Ministerial positions
• Portfolios held by Women Ministers
• World and regional averages of women in Parliament
• Women in Parliament

1. analyze the gender dimensions of development in the country;
2. identify gender-responsive?