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- Realising women’s rights and achieving the MDGs depends on strengthening accountability for commitments to women and gender equality
- ( United Nations Development Fund for Women , 2008)
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UNIFEM’s biennial flagship report argues that realising women’s rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals depends on strengthening accountability for commitments to wom...
- Gender and natural resource management: critical feminist perspectives
- ( B., P. Resurreccion;R. Elmhirst / International Development Research Centre , 2008)
- This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often ...
- Promoting a gender-inclusive approach to disaster risk reduction
- ( United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction , 2007)
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The Hyogo Framework for Action requires the full, active and balanced participation of both sexes, yet gender issues are often overlooked in the implementation of disaster risk reduction. This...
- Reaching gender equality and women’s empowerment in developing countries
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2007)
- What action does the Department for International Development (DFID) take to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment? This Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP) explains how DFID will help develo...
- Fostering greater gender awareness in UN peacekeeping operations
- ( Women's Refugee Commission , 2007)
- The United Nations has noted the need for greater system-wide coherence, standards and synergies across mainstreaming approaches. This paper explores the implications of gender mainstreaming for the D...
- Why have efforts to promote gender equality not succeeded?
- ( B. Aasen / Department for International Development, UK , 2006)
- Numerous recent evaluations of efforts to institutionalise women and gender equality into development cooperation have concluded that progress has been poor. To identify the reasons why, this paper sy...
- What information is needed to ensure gender issues are addressed by the Convention on Climate Change?
- ( Genanet , 2005)
- This paper summarises the outcomes of a workshop to discuss gender and climate change-related research, and its role and use in women's and gender-related advocacy in the United Nations Framework Conv...
- Perspectives on UN reform on gender and gender agencies
- ( International Women's Tribune Centre , 2006)
- In the light of the United Nations Secretary General's proposal to implement major reforms across the UN system, particularly in terms of unifying goals and agencies, this report considers best practi...
- Scaling up gender mainstreaming in the World Bank
- ( World Bank , 2006)
- This plan commits the World Bank to intensify and scale up gender mainstreaming in the economic sector over four years, in partnership with client countries, donors and other development agencies. Apa...
- Recommendations for improving gender equality in poverty reduction in Bangladesh
- ( F. Shah / KfW Bankengruppe , 2006)
- This paper critically examines the issue of gender and women’s equality in Bangladesh. The author asserts that while overall poverty has decreased in this country in recent years, poverty continues t...
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