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Gender
ANSA-Africa identifies gender as a significant cross-cutting factor to add value to and facilitate the improvement of gender imbalances on the demand side of service delivery. Social accountability issues are gendered because gender relations are central to change the balance of power between women and men in societies. Gender is understood as the socially acquired attribute of masculinity and femininity by which women and men are identified. Gendered relations are increasingly recognised to be central to the development of policies and implementation to promote effective service delivery. Given that the gender gap is based on gender-based inequalities that arise through social and political processes in our societies, evidence shows that benefits in society accrue more to men than women. Such differences and inequalities between men and women are manifest, for example, in economic, educational, social, political, technological and health sectors. Some concrete examples of the gendered dimension of social accountability issues are: food security, sexual and reproductive health, education of the girl child, water, transport, sanitation, electricity and hygiene.

Recent experience shows that gender-based discrimination prevents societies as a whole, women and men, from reaching their full potential. Global efforts to combat inequalities such as the Millenium Development Goals (MDG 3) and the Platform for Action adopted in 1995 at the UN World Conference on Women highlight that a primary goal of all development is to mainstream gender equality in all areas of social and economic development. Gender mainstreaming, a process rather than an end itself, should prioritise gender in all areas of social accountability: policy development; advocacy, dialogue; resource allocation; planning and implementation. The centrality of women’s roles in political-economic development could be understood against the background of vast inequities that prevail.

Taxation and Gender Equity: a comparative analysis of direct and indirect taxes in developing and developed countries
Edited by Caren Grown and Imraan Valodia, 2010

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?

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UNIFEM's work on gender-responsive budgeting
19 July 2010

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?

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Gender Equality and empowerment of women in the implementation of the MDG: regional perspective
2 July 2010

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?

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Communique: Annual Conference on Women in Political Leadership in Africa
June 2010

Participantsat the Annual Conference on African Women in Politics held on the 7th – 9th 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?

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Gender Budgeting Report 2010-2011
25 June 2010

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,?

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Gender Mainstreaming in Local Economic Development Strategies: A guide
2010

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?

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Que tipo de Estado? Que tipo de igualdade?
June 2010

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?

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Quel genre d'tat pour quel genre d'galit?
June 2010

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?

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What kind of State? What kind of equality?
June 2010

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?

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Ninth Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting
7 June 2010

The 9th 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,?

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Indicateurs sur le Genre, la Pauvret et l'Environnement sur les pays africains 2010
2010

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?

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Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries 2010
2010

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?

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MENA-OECD conference on gender equality in government and business
May 2010

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?

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Making the MDGs work better for women: implementing gender-responsive National Development Plans and Programmes
2010

Recent decades have seen great advances in gender equality at national and global levels, particularly since the 4th 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?

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Determining Gender Equity in Fiscal Federalism: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence from India
Lekha S Chakraborty, March 2010

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?

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The Global Gender Gap Report 2009
Ricardo Hausmann, Laura D Tyson, Saadia Zahidi, 2009

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?

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Monitoring and Evaluation Programme of the African Plan of Action to Accelerate the Implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action
30 November 2009

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?

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The AIDS Accountability Scorecard on Women 2009
2009

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?

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Situation analysis of children and women 2008
23 November 2009

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?

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Examen de la mise en oeuvre du Programme d’action de Beijing en Afrique quinze ans aprs son adoption (Beijing +15)
6 November 2009

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.

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Fifteen-Year Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Africa (BPfA) +15
6 November 2009

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.

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Gender-sensitive economic policies in the context of the economic and financial crisis
24 September 2009

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.

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Stakeholders meeting on Domestication and Implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
16 July 2009

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?

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African Women’s Report 2009 - Measuring Gender Inequality in Africa: Experiences and Lessons from the African Gender and Development Index
2009

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?

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Gender budgeting as a tool for poverty reduction: concepts, practices and capacity implications
April 2009

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?

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Who answers to women? - gender and accountability
23 February 2009

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

Who Answers to Women? Unifem campaign on gender and accountability

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Gender-based Violence in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of Demographic and Health Survey findings and their use in National Planning
26 January 2009

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?

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L’galit dans les budgets: pour une mise en oeuvre pratique
2009

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?

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Gender budgeting: practical implementation handbook
2009

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?

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Gender equality action plan
2009

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.

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Gender-based violence in Tanzania: an assessment of policies, services and promising interventions
Myra Betron, November 2008

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?

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Conference Commitments for the Women's Platform for Action in Africa 2008
31 October 2008

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?

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Corruption, Poverty and Gender: With Case Studies of Nicaragua and Tanzania
Maaria Seppnen and Pekka Virtanen, 2008

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.

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Sant de la femme dans la rgion africaine de l’OMS: appel l’action
24 June 2008
Le rapport du directeur rgional la cinquante-huitime sance de la Sant Organisation Rgional Bureau Mondial pour l'Afrique Yaounde, Cameroun, le 1–5 septembre 2008.
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Women's health in the WHO African region: a call for action.
24 June 2008
Report of the regional director at the fifty-eighth session of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa at Yaounde, Cameroon, 1–5 September 2008.
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African experiences in strengthening citizen's voice in revenue an expenditure planning
Ms Mary Rusimbi, March 2008
Presentation on selected African experiences on strengthening citizens’voice in public resource generation and management through civic action at local level.
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Solemn statement and recommendations: 11th consultative meeting on gender mainstreaming in Africa
22 January 2008
We, members of the African Civil Society and Women’s Movement meeting under the aegis of "Gender is My Agenda Campaign" on the occasion of the 11th Pre-Summit Consultative Meeting held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 22nd to 23rd January 2008, on the theme "Industrial Development?
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Decentralisation and gender: Co-ordination and co-operation on maternal health issues in selected district councils in Tanzania
2008

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

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Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009
2008
Our 2008/2009 report demonstrates that one of the most powerful constraints on realizing women's rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals is a deficit of accountability to women.
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Polticas de Gnero e Feminizao da Pobreza em Moambique
Inge Tvedten, 2008

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.

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Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in Mozambique
Inge Tvedten, 2008

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.

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Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case studies from the developing world
Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed, 24 September 2007
No one disagrees that girls ought to go to school—for their own sake and because educating girls ensures a better future for their children and their societies. And in fact, in the last two decades girls' enrollment rates in developing countries, especially in primary schooling, have increased dramatically.?
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Capacity development for promoting gender equality in the aid effectiveness agenda
September 2007
In the context of discussions on financing for development and aid effectiveness, and particularly with the roll out of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in 2005, there has been growing recognition of the importance of integrating gender equality in national development planning and programming?
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Unequal, Unfair, Ineffective and Inefficient - Gender Inequity in Health: Why it exists and how we can change it
Gita Sen, Piroska stlin, Asha George, September 2007
Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering'?
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Gender-responsive budgets in the commonwealth progress report: 2005-2007
September 2007
At the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting in 2005, Ministers recognised the critical importance of gender-responsive budgets (GRBs) and the need for progress and sustainability on this issue. The Ministers therefore agreed to report on progress biennially at the Finance Ministers Meeting, with the?
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Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women: Paradoxes and possibilities
Isabella Bakker, 29 August 2007
This paper focuses on the central paradox which the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment current faces: universal commitments to gender equality versus the relatively limited progress that has been made over the past years in implementation at the national level. With this?
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Gender Protocol Alliance dismayed by leader’s inaction
18 August 2007
The Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance[1] is disappointed that SADC leaders failed to walk the talk of gender equality at their just ended summit in Lusaka by not signing the Protocol on Gender and Development. As representatives of sixteen regional and national NGOs working to promote the rights?
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Financing for Gender Equality and The Empowerment of Women: Experiences from Tanzania
Edward Hiza Mhina, August 2007
Between 1997 and 1999, Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), an NGO based in Tanzania, has been engaged in researching how the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education & Culture, Ministry of Science, Technology & Higher Education, Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperatives, Ministry of Health and?
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Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base
12 July 2007
The Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base (GID-DB) represents a new tool for researchers and policy makers to determine and analyse obstacles to women’s economic development. It covers a total of 161 countries and comprises an array of 60 indicators on gender discrimination. The data base has?
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Gender Justice: a guide to gender accountability for IFIs
July 2007
Although publicly-funded International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have missions to reduce poverty and promote economic growth, IFI projects often ignore gender inequality and increase poverty, prostitution, and HIV/AIDS, particularly among women and girls.
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Epidemic of Inequality: Women's Rights & HIV/AIDS in Botswana & Swaziland
25 May 2007
Deeply entrenched gender inequities perpetuate the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Botswana and Swaziland, the two countries with the highest HIV prevalence in the world.1 The legal systems in both countries grant women lesser status than men, restricting property, inheritance?
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Tanzania Gender and Economic Growth Assessment
May 2007
Tanzania has been at the forefront of creating a positive legal framework and political context for gender equality.
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Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa
Kaori Izumi, 22 March 2007
Property grabbing is a new form of gendered violence against women, threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa. Forced evictions are often accompanied by further acts of violence, including physical and mental harassment, and abuse. Widows are particularly vulnerable, partly as?
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Gender and Economic Growth Assessment for Ghana 2007
2007
This study presents an assessment of the role of gender in economic growth in Ghana with emphasis on constraints to enterprise operations, investment and growth among womenowned firms. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women own up to a third of businesses in Africa, and that this represents a significant?
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A New Weave of Power, People & Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation
Lisa VeneKlasen with Valerie Miller, 2007
A New Weave of Power, People & Politics provides a well-tested approach for building people’s participation and collective power that goes beyond influencing policy and politics to transforming public decision-making altogether. Based on 25 years of participatory research, community development, neighborhood?
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Gender Equality – At the heart of development: Why the role of women is crucial to ending world poverty
2007
The world is unequal and it is most unequal for women and girls. Most of the poorest people in the world are women and part of what makes them poor is the discrimination they face purely because of their gender.
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Food: Women farmers are invisible actors in hunger drama
11 October 2006
Women shoulder more and more of the burden of providing food in many parts of the world as they plant, plough, harvest and fish, gather fuelwood, fetch water, cook, breastfeed, and sell foodstuff.
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Lessons from evaluations of women and gender equality in development cooperation
Berit Aasen, October 2006
In 2005 Norad commissioned the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) and partners to carry out an evaluation of the Strategy for Women and Gender Equality in Development Cooperation (1997-2005). The evaluation showed significant weaknesses in the institutionalisation of activities,?
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Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships: Experiences from Africa
July 2006
The March 2005 Paris Declaration commits the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC) donors and developing countries to work together on five key principles for enhancing aid effectiveness. The principles—Ownership, Alignment, Harmonization,?
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Development: Gender equality equals growth
2 June 2006
The document released ahead of the UN Special Session on Women in New York next week echoes what gender activists have been championing for years - that societies which discriminate on the basis of gender pay a significant price in more poverty, slower economic growth, weaker governance and lower quality?
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Rights-Belgium: A lobby group pushes for women advancementFarah Khan
Farah Khan, 15 May 2006
The UN Third Conference on the world's 49 least developed countries is meeting this week in the Belgian capital to interrogate what has gone wrong with efforts to reduce the number of people living in poverty in the world. In the past 30 years, poverty has increased - only 25 countries were initially?
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The political gender gap in Africa: Similar attitudes, different behaviors
Carolyn Logan, Michael Bratton, 1 March 2006
Differences in political values, attitudes and behaviors between women and men have long been the subject of scrutiny in Western societies. Gender differences in family, work, and community roles and experiences have been seen as key factors contributing to an observed “gender gap” in these societies.?
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Agreed conclusions of the commission on the status of women on the critical areas of concern of the Beijing platform for action
2006
The Economic and Social Council established the Commission on the Status of Women in June 1946. The Commission reports directly to the Council, and through the Council to the General Assembly.
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Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women's Reproductive Rights: A Resource Pack
2006

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?

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Key issues and challenges for gender inclusive African national statistical systems and capacity building
Alfred Latigo, 2006
In close consultation with the the UNECA and the UNSD a meeting was held in Cape Town, South Africa, entitled the "2006 Africa symposium on statistical development: the 2010 round of population and housing censuses". The meeting in Cape Town considered a number of
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Women: Still something to shout about
Nikki van der Gaag, 2006
The 'world's most ruthless killer' is coded as Z59.5. It has meant 'widening gaps between rich and poor, between one population group and another, between age groups and between the sexes'. It has caused more suffering to more people than anything else on earth. And it has got worse over the last?
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2004 World survey on the role of women in development: Women and international migration
2006
In its resolutions 54/210 of 22 December 1999 and 58/206 of 23 December 2003 the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to update the World Survey on the Role of Women in Development for consideration by the General Assembly during its fifty-ninth session. The present World Survey addresses?
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Making it happen: Political will for gender equality in education
December 2005
Why do some countries succeed in promoting gender parity and equality in education while others do not? The answer often given is ‘political will’. All too often, however, no further explanation is offered. There has been little effort to understand why governments are unwilling or unable to change their?
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Gender equality and empowerment of women through ICT
September 2005
“The so-called digital divide is actually several gaps in one. There is a technological divide—great gaps in infrastructure. There is a content divide. A lot of web-based information is simply not relevant to the real needs of people. And nearly 70 per cent of the world’s websites are in English, at?
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Resource guide: Gender and conflict in Africa
August 2005
USAID AFR recognizes that policy is one of the main instruments for creating lasting changes. Therefore, the creation of a new and innovative gender policy with specific guidance on gender and conflict to guide AFR and influence its organizational culture and practices is vital. When equipped with the?
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Gender and conflict in Africa: Annotated bibliography
August 2005
This annotated bibliography provides summaries of articles, toolkits and other materials on gender and conflict in Africa. It is meant to complement a ‘Gender and Conflict in Africa Resource Guide’ that identifies and provides Web links to organizations and other resources that work on humanitarian,?
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Best practices: Gender and conflict in Africa
August 2005
More than 50 percent of the world’s active violent internal and regional conflicts are in Africa. These conflicts have directly or indirectly affected over 75 percent of the region’s countries and populations, conscripted over 300,000 child soldiers, displaced over 30 million people from their homes,?
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Africa bureau fragile states framework: Gender issues and best practice examples
August 2005
USAID’s Africa Bureau has developed a new Strategic Framework for the Agency and its programs in Africa that support US government foreign policy goals as articulated in the National Security Strategy (2002) and the State-USAID Joint Strategic Plan. The framework also aligns USAID programs with the “White?
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The millennium development goals in Africa: Progress and challenges
August 2005
The urgent need to address poverty around the world and the opportunity provided by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have made them the rallying cry of a global partnership and the cornerstone of international and regional development policy. For the first time in history, a diverse range of players?
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Uganda: From periphery to center - A strategic country gender assessment
2 March 2005
Lack of control over productive resources by women remains one of the root causes of poverty. Women explained that they lack control over land, the crops their labor produces from it, livestock, and other productive resources. Yet they are responsible for meeting family needs. They complained bitterly?
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Women and water
February 2005
There is widespread recognition that the world is facing a growing water crisis, affecting the well-being of millions of the poorest people. Rapidly growing populations, urbanization, agricultural intensification and climate change (such as global warming) all contribute to greater competition and scarcity?
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Child labour, gender inequality and rural/urban disparities: how can Ethiopia’s national development strategies be revised to address negative spill-over impacts on child education and wellbeing?
Tassew Woldehanna, Bekele Tefera, Nicola Jones, Alebel Bayrau, 2005
The Ethiopian Government has emphasised the intensification of agricultural activities in order to increase livelihood options and provide better safety nets for the poor (e.g. through food or cash?for?work programmes).
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Women in politics: 2005
1 January 2005
  • Women in Ministerial positions
  • Portfolios held by Women Ministers
  • World and regional averages of women in Parliament
  • Women in Parliament
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Decade review of the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing platforms for action: Outcome and the way forward
12 October 2004
The African ministers in charge of gender and women affairs met at the Seventh African Regional Conference on Women (Beijing+10), in Addis Ababa, October 2004 to review the status of implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action.
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Tanzania: Strategic country gender assessment
C. Mark Blackden, Magdalena Rwebangira with support from Zahia Lolila Ramin, 30 June 2004
This Strategic Country Gender Assessment (SCGA) summarizes relevant gender issues in Tanzania to support dialogue with Government and civil society and to inform the World Bank’s work program. Specifically, the SCGA aims to support the Government of Tanzania (GOT) to integrate gender issues more systematically?
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Sao Tome and Principe: Country gender assessment
7 June 2004
Sao Tome and Principe (STP) has a distinctive gender profile, different from that of neighboring African countries. Gender equality is emphasized in the Constitution and reiterated across the various laws and legislation. STP is a signatory of all international conventions that promote gender equality?
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Zambia: Strategic country gender assessment
Mabel C. Milimo, Monica L. Munachonga, Lillian Mushota, Nelson Nyangu, Sr. Auxilia Ponga, June 2004
The Zambia Strategic Country Gender Assessment (ZSCGA) is the principal means by which Zambia and the Bank, and other development partners, participate in a collaborative process to:

  1. analyze the gender dimensions of development in the country;
  2. identify gender-responsive?
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Making risky environments safer
April 2004
Natural disasters—particularly erosion and other forms of soil degradation, pollution of freshwaters, shoreline erosion, flooding, loss of wetlands, drought and desertification—impact directly on women in their roles as providers of food, water and fuel.
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Analyse strategique des enjeux lies au genre au Burkina Faso
Mme Rosalie Ouoba, Mme Mariam Tani, Mme Zneb Toure, October 2003
La situation sanitaire, malgr l’volution positive de certains indicateurs, demeure proccupante compte tenu de leurs niveaux actuels. Les indicateurs de mortalit indiquent un niveau de mortalit toujours lev.
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The Kenyan strategic country gender assessment
October 2003
Kenya is a country of great economic and social variation between geographic regions and among income groups. Over half the country’s population lives beneath the poverty line as illustrated by figures from the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation, which states that the overall?
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Malawi: Strategic Country Gender Assessment (SCGA)
Naomi Ngwira, Garton Kamchedzera, Linda Semu, 1 June 2003
This is a report of a strategic country gender assessment (SCGA) on Malawi. In 2001, the World Bank developed a country-wide gender strategy that called on all countries to undertake country gender assessments in recognition of the importance of gender in poverty reduction, economic growth and human?
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Women, nationality and citizenship
June 2003
This issue of Women2000 and Beyond considers discrimination against women in nationality laws. It examines laws that differentiate between women and men in the acquisition and retention of nationality, as well as in relation to the nationality of their children, highlighting the legal and practical disadvantages?
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The ABC of gender responsive education policies
26 March 2003
There is a wide body of literature on girls’ education problems in Africa and their underlying causes. Consequently, most of us know or at least can find out what these are. What has remained problematic, however, is the acquisition of the technical skills required for systematically assessing, designing,?
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Rights, equality and education for all
2003
‘Education for All’ means what it says. The international community has committed itself, in the Dakar Framework for Action, to having all eligible children attending fee-free primary schooling by 2015.
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The convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and its optional protocol
2003
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights constitutes the first international instrument to detail the rights and freedoms of individuals, and contains 30 articles covering the integrity of the individual, political and civil rights (such as freedom of thought, expression, religion, association?
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Strategic country gender assessment
4 November 2002
This Strategic Country Gender Assessment (SCGA) summarizes relevant gender issues in Benin both to support the dialogue with the government and to inform our own country strategy.
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Strategic country gender assessment: Briefing note for the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy
14 January 2002
This brief Strategic Country Gender Assessment (SCGA) summarizes relevant gender issues in Ghana as part of the effort to support the more systematic integration of gender concerns into the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS).
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Women, peace and security
1 January 2002
On 31 October 2000, the Security Council adopted resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security, which builds on the Presidential Statement of 8 March 2000 and a series of Council resolutions on children and armed conflict, the protection of civilians in armed conflict and the prevention of armed?
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Gender mainstreaming: An overview
2002
Gender mainstreaming was established as a major global strategy for the promotion of gender equality in the Beijing Platform for Action from the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. The ECOSOC agreed conclusions (1997/2) established some important overall principles for?
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Facilitator’s manual competence development programme on gender mainstreaming
2002
This Manual is based on the approach to gender mainstreaming competence development in the United Nations developed by Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues (OSAGI), the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) within the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Office of Human Resources?
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Optional protocol to the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
15 October 1999
The General Assembly,

Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,

Recalling that the Beijing Platform for Action, pursuant to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, supported the process initiated by the Commission?
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Women’s health: Using human rights to gain reproductive rights
December 1998
10 December 1998 is the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). “International human rights law has been guilty of ‘gender-blindness’,” says Pierre San, Secretary General of Amnesty International. “For too long it focused on the ‘public’ arena largely populated by men and?
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Sexual violence and armed conflict: United Nations response
April 1998
Sexual violence during armed conflict is not a new phenomenon. It has existed for as long as there has been conflict. In her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Susan Brownmiller presented stark accounts of rape and other sexual atrocities that have been committed during armed conflict throughout?
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Women and decision-making
October 1997
At the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1995, the global community stressed the importance of women assuming positions of power and influence, not only because their points of view and talents are needed, but also as a matter of their human rights.
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